Joiner

My head is feeling better now, well it's been a few days, but it's Cathal who's now not feeling the best. Due in no small part to endodontic surgery yesterday. It was a 2.5 hour operation so I had a little time to kill in the waiting room and I can now finally ( just as the tour actually moves to France) be part of the tdfknitalong. Mmm, it's growing slowly. That's what 2.5 hours produced, now I may have been a little distracted but still I think this is going to eat up hours and hours of knitting time. Which is why I chose to compete for the king of the mountains jersey - I need stamina for this one. I did knit up another swatch, this time on 2.75mm needles (1st swatch is with the recommended 3mm needles) and I decided that I preferred the first swatch I made. So I cast on with the 3mm's. I have to admit whilst I love the lace, the slow growth and the concentration required for this knit is a little off putting. I'm a multitasker and I really enjoy doing other things while I knit, you know watching a DVD, reading a book or blogs or the internet etc etc. I just can't do that with this one though. Even on the purl row I have to keep an eye on it to make sure that I do in fact only purl one of the wrapped stitches and ensure that the other one gets dropped. So, I think this will continue to be a slow grower as I knit in my spare time during the day, when I am not doing anything else!

In marked contrast I nearly have a front of the Jo Sharp V Necked Vest knit. This is flying off the needles (albeit 3.25mm!). Now, this is a knit that works well with my multitasking penchant. Now if I could just do the same with my shawl, there'd be progress, but where's the challenge in that!

P.S. Cathal has just posted his 100th post on our other blog ( who am I kidding "our blog" - I've written a handful of posts) and in true blog world style there's prizes so drop on over and leave a comment.