Tea and Cakes

Busy busy busy, and haven’t been in a chatty mood much recently, but anyway…

The stockingette is progressing. I missed my deadline of being able to join the body and sleeves by last Tuesday’s class, and instead managed to start that on Sunday night. Tonight’s the last class, but I’m doing ok with it, and I’ve read through the instructions a few times. I’m sure Ravelry can come to my aid if needs be.

Sorry for the not great picture – taken very quickly this morning.

EZ says to leave 5% of the stitches each side for the underarm. However, I had more than the 33% suggested at the top of the sleeve. (I went with what worked instead of sticking to the %). Apparently the EPS system has been updated in later books, but not in Knitting Without Tears, so I’m not unusual in finding that my figures didn’t quite work. 5% would have been 11 stitches, BrooklynTweed mentioned 8%, which would have been 17.8, so I went with 16, which felt right.

Now, I know that’s all I’m supposed to be working on right now, so we’ll just keep this next picture between us:

(again, sorry about the quick and dirty photo)
I was away this weekend, and needed something very portable that I could work on without needing too much thinking. And most definitely not navy stockingette. Small and bright and cute and fun, a baby sock was the perfect choice. Must….not….finish…yet…