Knitting's Charm is Back

As quickly as my knitting mojo left, it returned. For the last week enough knitting energy was mustered to make four dishcloths, two in the traditional style found here and two in the Loganberry pattern located on this site.

Two traditional style in the front and the two Loganberry in the back

As I mentioned earlier there has been work done on the Churchmouse Crocheted Moebius. It is growing, but I'll need a bit more time to get it completed. Last night the Fisherman's Pullover was picked up again and for some reason (maybe it was a lack of good eye sight, to be described later) it didn't look nearly as bad as I had remembered it looking. You know how it goes sometimes, you think something is a disaster, put it away for a bit of time, and then return to wonder what you were originally thinking. That's what I felt last evening. So the back was shaped slightly and the remaining live stitches are on a holder waiting for the front. And the front was also started so this project is back on track.

The Fisherman Pullover back is off the needles and the beginning of the front

At work there's been a rather large set of approximately 4,000 individual records that needed to be looked at, information gleaned from the glance given it and then recorded on another database. Each item is important and needs to be done with attention (none of this plays to my strengths which include big overviews of topics and daydreaming about potential). I was able to accomplish reviewing approximately 2,400 of these records and got help with the rest. It was mindless, tedious, repetitive work, that bugged me immensely until I was able to equate it to knitting. (This process also wreaked havoc with my eyes, all that close work.) Do one small action at a time, congratulate or motivate yourself by timing how long it takes to get 10 records done, take breaks to stand up and move around, exercise your shoulders. If you knit all of this makes sense. At any rate the information is now complete and sent off, but boy it was a slog. Perhaps this is part of my knitting slump, mentally I was in the same place both at work and at home for the last week or so.

And the beginning of the ribbing for the front, approximately 1 inch/2.5 cm done

I'm back on track now though with knitting and looking forward to getting more of that to-do list done. The malaise seems to have passed (now I hope I haven't jinxed it)!

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