So the knitting on Backyard Leaves is slow going. Incredibly slow going. I am a slow knitter by nature to begin with, granted. I love to knit, but my concentration level zeros out after about a row. Why? Because I’m a multitasker at heart, and I can’t do my usual websurfing slash chatting slash writing with a pair of knitting needles in hand, so I tend to knit a row, and set it down and do something, then pick it up again a few minutes later and knit another row, and so on. There are times when I knit several rows in a row without pause, but typically, my fingers freeze up and start waving signs of protest soon thereafter. I cannot JUST sit and knit very often, not without pause at least to rest the fingers for a couple minutes.

So anyway, even with all that in mind, this scarf is slow moving. My fingers are stiffer than usual. I’m knitting tighter than usual, and I think it’s the odd combination of stitches - the slip stitch border, the strange k1, p1 in same stitch, etc., the fact that there is no ‘downtime’ row of just purling across, or knitting across, etc. - and also, for whatever reason, this yarn feels heavy to me, and the needles, too. Maybe I’m just having a hard day, eh?

So I have the setup rows, and TWO whole repeats done. That is lousy. I should be able to do at least 2-3 repeats a night with no problem. Maybe it’ll get faster as time goes on. As the air warms, perhaps, too. Cold fingers don’t make for limber fingers…

Anyway, I’m hating the pattern. *laugh* I love the results, though, and it certainly isn’t boring. These leaves pop out like crazy! For the first repeat, I took forever on especially, because lo and behold, I was terrified I was doing it wrong. The k1, p1 in same stitch bit didn’t seem right to me, and neither did anything else, but with two repeats down, I’m pretty sure all is well.

But I’m getting some new needles on Monday and can start up my gift bags for people. Will start carrying two projects - the gift bags will be nothing but stockinette in the round for the most part, and that’ll be easy easy easy on the brain and the hands.

Will post photo after I have a couple more repeats done, I think. :)

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