Traffic Knitting

Some days, life goes your way and some days, you are stuck in traffic for 3 hours. By stuck, I mean you have the ability to put the car in park and knit while you fret about being late to work, how the kids are going to go potty, and what in the world are they going to eat. I wish could say that the last statements are not firsthand knowledge, but it is. Welcome to my Wednesday morning commute.

1 hour

After making it within 6 miles of work, after already being on the road for about 35-40 minutes, we sat. The Things and I put the car in park at 7:15 AM realizing we weren’t moving anytime soon. All 3 lanes headed eastbound were stuck together for hours. Thank goodness for the little voice in my head that said to bring an extra protein bar for breakfast. At 8 I fed the boys each a half of 1 bar. By 9, I caved and brought out the second bar for them. That was their breakfast with nothing to drink. I have never been more proud of my boys than that day. There were a couple of potty requests but DS1 was able to somehow hold it for more than an hour. Crazy.

3 hours

The bulk of this week’s knitting was in that traffic jam. I started a renewed toddler sock Tuesday night. Barely two rounds were completed before Wednesday morning. The sock where I cast on 48 stitches was too big and was frogged.  This time, 56 stitches were cast on for 2x2 ribbing. As we waited and waited, I took a series of pictures. Most of the pictures can be seen on Instagram where I am dixienuelle. I have a picture after 15 minutes, after an hour, and after 3 hours with a tape measure visible. The final picture was taken at work when I ate lunch (left over from the day before and not in the car with us).  Yay; 3 hours equals roughly 3 inches!

Sleeve to date

Of course with us, stuck was the sleeve I started for the Dr. Watson sweater. Trapped in a non-moving car with two toddlers, there was NO WAY I was going to work on a pattern that I needed to count. That said, a little math was done because I wasn’t smart enough to calculate the sleeves out beforehand. After doing the math eventually, I decreased the cast on from 56 stitches to 44 stitches. To date, all of 1 chevron has been completed so it may take forever to complete the sleeve. However, I do know someone that feels the body of the sweater is finished enough to wear. In order to get the pictures without posing, I had to turn my phone to vibrate where I took a series of still life in motion shots. Some are blurry while others are clear.

He WILL wear that sweater

That’s right, DS2 enjoys Mommy’s sweater. He attempted to put it on at least 4 different ways while I was watching. One way even included diving into the pile of sweater. Unfortunately, that was a really blurred action shot.   The picture I’ve chosen is still blurred but it gives you a sense of the speed in which we were trying to get the sweater on.  J