Right now, the only knitting I can really focus on is the simplest projects. I was trying to match the color striping on the socks, and did pretty well on the cuff. However, I realized I started on the wrong color on the heel, but have decided that since it will be in my shoe, I am not re-doing it. So, this pair of socks is close to finished, and I will be getting back to Nisseet as soon as I can.

Between my exhaustion and aging eyes, it is hard for me to see well enough to pick up the stitches correctly and my focus is so divided that I can't do it while talking to others or watching anything. Perhaps I will get to it Monday, and finally get them finished. The next step will be finalizing the pattern and getting it ready for editing. That also requires focus, so you can see why it's been delayed. It's just been a tiring and challenging time for us. Again, I seek your prayers. It's nothing we can fully discuss publicly, but it isn't a secret, so if you know me, you can contact me about it.

I started the sleeve on a vintage inspired knitted blouse pattern from a 2004 IK that I've wanted to make since it was published. The whole focus issue is making it more difficult for me than it ought to be, but also the pattern does not notate RS or WS on the graph, and there is an instruction for a specific increase which is a little unclear. On the increase, I've just kind of decided how I will do it and will do it consistently, so that is fine, but I have to rip back because of the no indication of RS on the graph, because the first row isn't the right side, and it really messed up my set up.

Qidyssat Katrin is more than half way finished, and I'm on the much simpler side of it. However, again, because of all that is going on, I am careful to work on it when I am most rested, with full light, and few distractions. Which means I haven't worked on it nearly as much as I wanted. These four projects are all I am permitting myself to even consider or work on right now. Too many more, and I would not be able to get anything done. Of these, two are designs and two are other people's designs. Two are fairly simple, two more complicated, which gives me a simple and a more complex project for my "work" week and the same for the weekends.

Though I have read a little in a lot of books, I haven't really sustained much in any. I was trying to finish a happy little murder, but the library took it back before I could finish it. Maybe next week I will have more.

I was too late to link to Unraveled Wednesday

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 9:25 PM