After my inspirational visit to Get Knitted on Monday I finished the second sleeve of Tequila Sunrise on Tuesday but then when I started to pick up the stitches around the neck I kept making mistakes. First of all I started doing it on a 4mm straight needle instead of the 3.25mm circular that I bought especially for the job, then I finally picked up 52 stitches on either side of the front of the neck and I realised I should have picked up 58 on both sides! So I’m afraid to say I got quite grouchy and unpicked the picked up stitches and decided I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to try again.
So I have started knitting a toe up sock in my Tofutsie yarn on 2.5mm needles following the Widdershins pattern from Knitty again. I’m only doing it in stocking stitch but it’s progressing nicely so far and the Tofutsie yarn is lovely to knit with. I would post a picture to show off the nice colours of the yarn but my batteries are flat and I need to buy some more rechargeable ones for the camera. Sorry!
Whenever I’ve walked anywhere this week I’ve been listening to the Socks In The City Podcast, I think I’ve listened to about 10 episodes. I can safely say that Carrie is completely mad about knitting socks. It is really fun to listen to and definitely makes my walk to work more interesting.
During the week I discovered that someone had cloned one of my debit cards and bought £600 worth of baby items, I’m just lucky I found out quite quickly so that I could get the bank to cancel my card. I still don’t know how they cloned it, the bank are going to investigate and have said I will get my money back. It’s more annoying than anything as I had to go to the police station and get a crime incident number but I will say that all the people I spoke to when dealing with this were very helpful and nice. So although the person who did this isn’t very nice it does prove that all the other people involved are nice!!
Tags: Tequila Sunrise, Tofutsie, widdershins
