Casting on, getting smug, learning my lesson

So....

I was all smug at the soccer game yesterday.  

Bookworm made a great showing....

 

(There are more pictures where she's kicking the ball and all that other good soccer stuff).

And I was merrily knitting away on a pair (okay, on one of a pair) of wrist warmers that I'm knitting for one of my dear  dear friends that I've not gotten to see in person in almost a dozen years.  I cast on what I was pretty sure were enough stitches ... and knit a good three inches in the designated lace pattern.

We all know where smug gets us, don't we.

It gets us a lovely trip to frogland.

But... that got me to do something much more interesting with the pattern design.

So today, while it rained... and rained.... and rained, I pretty much took the day off. 

I watched a bunch of TV, clearing out stuff that has been sitting on the DVR since I was too busy watching the Olympics to watch my "regular" shows.

And while I did that, I fussed, and knit little swatchy things and fidgeted, and played with charting software...

and then cast on for real (with enough stitches this time) and knit some more...

and recharted some more...

And I'm quite pleased with the results!  I just have to decide whether or not to SHOW them off... so the wonderful friend gets to watch them grow, or to hide them so they're a complete surprise when she gets them.  I can at least show you the yummy yarn I'm knitting them from

Malabrigo Sock, in Turner (which is ever so much greener than it appears in this picture (and my photoshopping skills (what with not having photoshop) are less than they could be).

Comments

[kmkat]

Yeah, it's tough to Photoshop w/o Photoshop.

[Enid Shaw]

oh, keep them a surprise. that is what I would prefer