Neglect

Yes, I have been neglecting the blog.  Suffice it to say, breaking up is hard to do.  It has occupied a lot of my headspace and you know?  While it's not that I haven't had stuff to say, it's hard to say it to an "open" audience.  So I haven't. In a nutshell, we are inching forward, and things will be ok.  There's a level of craziness about it all, though I'm not sure it'd be possible to go through something like this without some craziness.

Knitting.  I am making good progress on a pair of cabled fingerless mitts, though they're slow going as they're a tight knit.  I am a thumb away from the first one being done - so casting on for the second is on the horizon. 

Socks.  Oh. My. Hell.  I have two pairs that have been in progress for a while - a simple picot-edge stockinette pair, and a 3-1 ribbed pair.  I finished the first sock of the stockinette pair - and it is waiting for me to cast-on for the second.  With the ribbed pair, I have finished the first sock, and am maybe an inch from the heel on the second.

When I noticed:  CRAP.  I have gauge issues, *and* I have managed to cast on an extra rib (4 stitches) for the second sock.  It's about an inch bigger in circumference than the first.  While yes, I have contemplated creative solutions (slicing and grafting), and just living with it, it's probably headed to the frog pond. 

It's irritating as it means that three WIPs now need some thinking/work time - casting on etc.

The saving grace is that in less than two weeks I have a cross-country flight to Portland OR for Adult Sectionals - a skating competition.  I switched sections this year to Pacific Coasts rather than Easterns - as Pacific Coasts added a figures event.  Figures!  I am competing figures - a rare event these days.  There are nine people registered for the event - quite a deep field for most adult skating events.  I am *so* excited.  I'll be doing a Freestyle and Interp event too - but it's the figures that I am really excited about.

I have been baking a lot of sourdough bread lately - it's really rather fascinating.  I tried a no-knead method most recently - I resisted it for a while because I didn't think it could possibly work.  It works, fabulously.

Pictures?  Yeah, someday ;)