Shhhhhhhhh

. . .Don't tell anyone, but I continue to channel my Inner Real Knitter. She emerged today while the Sainted Miguel, my 15 year old wonder babysitter, took all 4 Things to the park (and got Thing 4 to sleep for her nap!).

I rode my bike to run some errands and ended up at a coffee shop. With tea in hand, I resolved to take only one bite of croissant for each row finished. Since I'm knitting this wrap horizontally, that's 201 stitches per row.

Maybe it's something about the geometric pattern. Maybe it's the chart. At any rate, even though I paused at the end of every row to sip my tea (Assam Golden Tip) and nibble some plain croissant and (here's that scary Real Knitter part) stretch my wrists, arms, neck and very tight sore lower back, I finished another pattern repeat -- but not the croissant.

I figured that every two rows -- pattern right side, purl back and catch any stray dropped yos on the wrong side -- takes me between 8-10 minutes. No one said I'm fast. At this rate, since I have two 12-row repeats completed and want to do about ten more, well, that's 960 minutes.


That's a heck of a lot of babysitting Tuesdays.