Another week...

...another 12" or so and I have cast off the back!  This Friday evening I find myself toasting my week's knitting progress with a glass of water as I am competing this weekend - so this post may be shorter and more to the point than my last one...maybe.

I knitted for 3.5 round commutes (approx 3.5 hours of knitting), which is about 3.4" inches an hour?  (That sounds better to me than I thought it would!)

I have felt more in the groove with this pattern this week, so things have been very peaceful in my train carriage - that is, with the exception of the commute sat next to a very fidgety lady in a big padded puffa coat, who overspilled her seat, had a bad cold and a tendency to throw her newspaper pages back with a loud, exaggerated gesture, usually just as I was 'ssk'ing...

...so I kind of 'leaned' a bit in her direction.  With the result that my knitting action caused my arm to 'shloop-shloop' gently but insistently against her plastic, padded coat until she retreated further into her seat to avoid it.  Didn't I realise that might be deliberately irritating...? 

Pardon - deliberately irritating?  As if I would conscience doing anything of the sort... 

...otherwise, I spent one commute fiddling with the armhole decreases as they cut across the lace pattern on the 38" size.  I wasn't sure whether to incorporate the lace pattern, including YOs during the cast bind offs.  I found myself wondering the same thing during the neck bind cast off too.  I did them - I ended up with the right number of stitches.  It looks okay?

See - it's all good. I feel like I am making steady progress.  Now, adding a real boost to my confidence, it is starting to look like a real garment, not that far removed from the photo in the book albeit slightly Armadillo in weight. So Joan, I think that you are keeping a quiet eye on this knitalong?  Thank you, I am really enjoying this knit.

Actually, I am enjoying it so much that I am warring with my conscience.  Right now, I should put this project aside and concentrate on my deadline knit - my skeins of yarn have arrived, so I need to wind balls and cast on for a wrap this weekend. Hmm.  let's see what 'knit inchage' I have to report next week!   

Okay, so clearly length of my posts has nothing to do with alcohol...I am just a bit chatty.