Before Coffee

Knitting is some weird.  

It has rules that sound arbirtrary but are broken all the time, but shouldn't be like never knit your boyfriend a sweater or never knit when you are drinking.  I may have discovered a new one.  Or one that should be a new one.  It is possible that it only needs to be a new one in my house, but gosh darn it, it should  be a rule.  Never knit before coffee.

I picked up my sock and the first thing that happened was that one of the needles came out of the stitches.  No biggie right?  It isn't all that hard to pick up stitches when they always sit so mannerly and nice.  Everything went back on and things were fine.

Till I got back to the start point, where I found this strand of yarn lying there.  See it just over the stitches on the front?  See the actual working strand cross ways over the sock?  Yeah.  The yarn was tucked over a needle and I didn't catch it after I put the stiches back on.  I started knitting having skipped a side. It could be worse.  The only thing I could do was to rip back the three needles I had knit and go back to the start of that fourth needle and reknit.  

I could have tinked back but I ripped out the needle and picked up the three sides,  perhaps just to torture myself.  It was a decision from before coffee and really, there should not be any decisions before coffee.  Not for me.

I have been avoiding that pretty lavender knitting like the plague to the benefit of other knitting, like these socks and my Shetland style shawl of Ultra.  I realized yesterday afternoon that the rows are starting to feel fast on the shawl, which means I am making good time.  And will probably keep making good time on it.  Who doesn't like to knit things that feel fast?  

I have also been doing a lot of thinking about what makes a sweater a favourite sweater for me.  I pulled out my newest Leisl 

When I was chilly one morning and I realized that this sweater, that I meant to wear as a 'better' sweater saved for when I was out and about or visiting, is something I wear every single day.  And I have no problem wearing it every single day except if you want to have something to wear when you go out it needs to be clean and fresh.  Daily wear is the antithesis of clean and fresh.  I need a different sweater to become my favourite.  

So, it is now time for my second cup of coffee, time to water the plants outside, and maybe some knitting.  Probably more thinking too.