Math and lifelines or just math?

The Dr. Watson sweater is almost to the home stretch. The back needs another 1.5” before neck and shoulder shaping while the front still needs from the divide up finished. Then next up are the sleeves. Of course the math calculated way back at the beginning was only done up to the dividing for the fronts and back. One lunch hour was dedicated to an excel chart of the shoulder decreases and neckline.  There may be a workable solution but lifelines were invented just for this reason!

Starting the internal debate and math

Since most of the body has been worked from two balls of yarn, when the front and back were divided, I kept using just the one ball for the back. The front was attached to the second ball. I have just under a golf ball sized yarn ball to finish the last 1.5” and shoulder/neckline shaping on the back. What are the odds I’ll make it? Slim to none is my guess. So at a completed row 8, the ball has been attached to the sweater and the front has been started. In my infinite wisdom some days, I left the ball of yarn attached thinking I would be able to pick up and go. No such luck. The pattern has cabling on the odd rows so they are the rows to be facing the right side. I would knit the even rows, right side facing and be forced to cable the odd rows from the wrong side.  I’m good but not that good yet. My knitting is beginner good!

Ponder night with Wolfe Farms

Monday night was the night I took the time to ponder my options while knitting a little on DS1’s sock. Of course Tuesday lunch I knit a few rows on the back of Dr. Watson and moved to the front of the sweater. Tonight after the Things go to bed, it’s anyone’s guess as to what the project of choice will be. Winter’s coming to Alabama sometime so my boys need to be prepared but at the same time, Momma only has a handful of sweaters. DS1 will wear my handknit socks and his Daddy’s handknit socks but only for a few moments at a time. The adults need to admire properly how the socks fit DS1 before he takes them off.  I live with 3 warm blooded males! None of them routinely wear handknits!

Thing 1 better wear these

Exercise is going to be making a regular appearance at my house going forward. In some podcast that I watch (can’t remember which), the host stated that they don’t make New Year resolutions but make Birthday resolutions. Since I have a birthday in a few weeks, I’m getting a head start on adapting that practice. My goal isn’t to lose any weight but to increase my fitness level. Weight loss can be a happy side effect if it works. Going forward, at least one evening a week I will make a pathetic attempt to run (very slowly moving to the Couch to 5K program from Cool Running) and I will walk for the same “run” length at least 2 other evenings in the week. This started Sunday with a 5 minute walk and then I tracked the jog for 60 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, jog for 60 seconds. The interval gained me roughly 0.3 miles. Monday night, the boys ate dinner then the 3 of us went out for a walk around the tennis courts- in the dark. The tennis courts were a good idea with the Things so they could go FAST when they wanted and leave Mommy walking with the other. 

Look for the little blue dot near the center, that's our light up superhero shoes as we go fast.