So remember how we lost our camera on Sparkly Day? The next day we found, in our parking garage, this toy for Tristram. He didn't get a camion porteur as a gift from anyone, because they are too expensive for our budget and Bob & Toni didn't much care for them, but he got one anyway. We took it as the universe's recompense for the camera. A small recompense, but much better than nothing.
He loves it. He likes to push it, he likes to sit on it, he LOVES to be pushed on it (though our backs do not love to stoop over and push him), and now he is learning to push himself along on it.
He is doing better with the teeth. He didn't sleep well last night--I missed my blogging because I sat with him so long--but he was very happy all day today, and has the very tiniest corner poking through a very swollen spot of gum. Today was Mommy-Tristram day; it's Tuesday instead of Thursday for the long day this semester. Not nearly as long, though--Jonathan is home around 6 instead of 7:30.
Last night's big tragedy, once Tristram did go to sleep, was my attempt at knitting. I realized, nearly 5 inches into the skirt, that I'd knitted a Moebius strip instead of a straight circle. I have no idea when I twisted it, or how I, Jonathan, and Lisa all managed to miss it until that far into the pattern, but there it was and there was no way I could see to untwist it. So I had to unravel the whole thing and start over. Now I am about half an inch in again, and being much more careful to check for twists. I kind of think, though, that I should have left it that way and declared it a new style of belt. I'd still have started the skirt over, but I'd have a fancy cummerbund to show for it too. Jonathan suspects all great advances in knitting were made in a very similar fashion--someone screwed up and then thought, "What would happen if I just kept going like this?" and it turned into a new technique.
2 comments:
I'm sorry if I missed a twist, but I am glad that you frogged the whole thing instead of making a belt. I think Moebius knitting sucks, and ultimately, you will have a finished piece that you're much happier with. It will be all the better for your efforts, and you'll have learned from the experience.
Yeah, you're right. It does look better--fewer mistakes, and the ones that are there are smaller. I did some quick math and figured that, with the approximate number of stitches in this project, even if I had only a .05% error rate I'd still have over 500 mistakes in the finished skirt. So probably the more practice the better!
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