Ribbit

There was a good amount of knitting yesterday. The bottom ribbing is half done. Most of the day was spent, busy, meandering inside my head.  

I was busy thinking about the Anyday Sweateshirt.

I had decided to frog this one.  I was not happy with the size I had picked and I did not like the way the back was looking.  It puckered oddly at the pickup.  My nifty little starting strip, which was a really sweet little design detail, was still too tightly knit. I had knit two thirds of the sweater and I wanted to take time to reassess.  Would the problems I had stop me from enjoying the sweater? Was the way I was looking at the sweater when I set it aside just frustration or were the problems real.

I took a good long look at it.  I tried it on.  I looked at the neck fit.  I looked at the way it say on me.  The problems were real. Oh well. I set up my newest ball winder and frogged it completely.  

I had ordered a ball winder a while ago to replace my last one and got a dud.  It went back and I left ordering another for a bit.  Did I really need one?  Yes I did.  I thought about all the coned yarn  have and how I wanted to use some of it for some after Christmas knits,  and thought about all that hand winding.  Yes, I needed a ball winder.

This time, I thought about a wood one, but they are pricey.  I also did not like the way the cheap wood ones set the hand winder.  It would be much harder on my hands and on my arms.  I ended up ordering from my usual source but I picked a Knit Picks ball winder.

Wow.  I had seen these before and other than being a different colour, they were the same as my old ball winders. This new one is made of much heavier material.  And it has the bottom screw set up so if I ever need to realign the sprockets inside, I can do it easily.  Its one shortfall is the handle.

It still has a fully plastic handle and since both of my previous ball winders failed on the handles, I would say this is a problem.  Other than that, it looks pretty good.  And it works.

There are chores to be done, patterns to be printed and put together and the start of some sewing to be gotten to. Lots on my plate today but first coffee and a wee bit of knitting.  It's like starting with desert.  Get in some good in the day first.