A strange week

This week has been a strange knitting week thanks to time scales and not getting very far on the knitting front.

It has been bleak.

Well I have an excuse as 2 PhD students handed in their theses and then another post grad student couple worked on their other creative research project which arrived at midnight on Thursday night - a baby boy.  

No name yet, Mum and Dad are discussing it.

This  student couple had a tough time last year when they lost a baby during delivery.  So during this pregnancy Mr and Mrs Postgrad Student had been highly anxious and very concerned about the pregnancy and the delivery. Due to the family history the consultant brought Mrs Postgrad in Thursday at 9am for an induction. Baby arrived at midnight and looked absolutely adorable in the special care nursery when I visited them on Friday after work. All going well Mrs Postgrad and baby will be back in class on Wednesday next week as a baby is not an excuse for stopping a Masters.

Looking forward to graduation next year.

Baby knitting wise this week I have had a complete fail just the continued fallout for the last eight weeks.  I think tomorrow I am going to spend the day pottering in the coal shed and may be I will get some of mojo back. This is the longest mojo disappearance that I have had in a long time we are talking years since it has been over 8 weeks without knitting regularly on a project.

Rav Tav Bitterroot

Well after much drama I finally manage to get a Bitterroot shawl cast on that I was happy with and got through Chart A & B fairly quickly in one night. I then had a couple of maddening days thanks to work but I was finished with Chart C by Friday night.

Then my old foe the double disaster knitting requirement hit again. Yeap I had got 1/2 way through the final chart and then I had to rip back to 1/2 way in Chart C. I had noticed that I dropped a stitch and then thinking yeap no worries I can fix this with a crochet hook proceeded to make it a complete balls up. After 2 hours the knitting was thrown across the room into the corner and my language would have be enough for Sister Xavier (my 3rd grade teacher) to put me in the corner and book an appointment in the recess for my mouth to be washed out with a bar of soap followed by a hot chilli pepper.

So a RIP back was done and Chart C was re completed. I managed to get Chart D almost finished we are talking 4 rows to go when I realised that foobar I was up the creek without a paddle again, I was almost out of yarn. In the end I fudged the pattern for the last couple of rows into one row. It looked like I would have just enough to do the bind off.

Nope I got just over the 1/2 way point I am all out of luck. I ended up scavenging yarn from a small left over ball of variegated yarn so I would have enough colour bits to blend in as a part of the bind off. I now have to sew in the ends.

After finishing this project today I have been left in a precarious position for Knit night I have absolutely no projects started. I have lots of little project bags kits prepared but I just have a meh! feeling about all of them.. I really don't know what I am going to start next. I tried starting a few items but I end up ripping back and repacking back into the project kit bag. I think I will just take some scraps with me and knit another couple of Easter eggs if I get time

Sea Robin's Egg Caps

Well I had finally finished that troublesome Travelling Woman no 3 and got it blocked after much determination to get it finished. It has been done and was taken slightly damp to knit night. I just had to show someone it was FINISHED!!!! Husbeast's comments of "That is nice dear", just does not cut it like afirmation by other knitters.

While it was drying I managed to complete the 2nd motorcycle girl Möbius.

Since the TW was finished I wanted a couple of quick knits to help with the Xmas list. So I cast on a Robin Egg Cap for Ry and it was such as quick knit up that I finished after knit night. I cast on the next one and finished it in a night.

I think to help get some of the knitting mojo back for the next week or so I will be doing little projects and leaving the Beast aka Js waistcoat on hold. I also have to get cracking on the birthday present knitting for K, as soon as possible. So I had undertaken action on most of the last weeks objectives.

Action plan for the next week.

• Complete Birthday present for K, ASAP!!!!
• Finish the BSJ which is currently on the needles and make a matching pair of booties.
• Finish the baby kimono jacket for FM
• One more item off the Xmas list!

Oink Oink fall out.

Unfortunately thanks to some students turning up to graduation while they were sick and contagious with Swine Flu and so I went down with the darn bug. Initially I thought it supposed to be a mild flu and I am not feeling that bad. So therefore I will get some knitting done and then it hit with the full dose. It hit, kicked, whacked and threw me a heck of a curve ball. After sleeping for almost ten days and feeling like I had just done ten rounds with Mike Tyson or a road train or both. I have not made a stitch of knitting for a whole two weeks. Shock horror I have not picked up a set of needles for a whole two weeks.

For the last week I have tried to pick up needles but the mojo is gone and I keep going back and making my Rip Van Winkle impersonation. I pick up the needles do some work but since I have been so dopy and ditzy I have made huge mistakes that can not be tinked but have to be ripped back. I have ripped back so often now that I just have not got any enthusiasm. I actually think I have ripped that far back that I am now ever further behind. I have had a couple of finishing jobs to do and I hoped that will re start my knitting bug but this has not seemed to work at all. I am still trying to find my lost knitting mojo.

I also think that Summer has something to do with it but I want my mojo back. I want to get my projects finished and I am so sick of the Unfinished Objects that are cluttering my work bags.