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Thats right people - we are halfway!!!!!!
50% done and dusted in....4 months *facepalm* How the hell am I going to get the other 50% done in 4 weeks.
I have come to realise that if I worked a 7 day week I would have hit the April 3rd target. In fact I'd probably be finished by now :)
As it happens i will DEFINITELY...OK possibly, make it by the end of the series so I will at least be able to watch the Finale wrapped in my scarf.
The halfway party is scheduled for tomorrow. Virtual beer, lager, cider, spirits and soft drinks all round.
I am finally upping the pace to a standard I am happy with
OK so April 3rd looks about as likely as Ianto coming back from the dead BUT I am at least hitting my 20 row a day target. Unfortunately I would need to hit 30 or more to make the start of Series 5 and considering that I rarely get time on the weekends that is pretty unlikely
But I am excited that I will be hitting halfway soon!!!
Yey
I seem to be getting quicker... I managed 10 rows on the train this morning and usually i do 6. If i can keep up the quickened pace i should be able to hit 12 on the way home. So provided i can get an hour in later on there is no reason why i shouldnt reach 30+ rows today. Even more if i can have a quiet lunch sat at my desk
So although my target of April 3rd looks majorly unlikely I am still making good progress
Had to undo another handful of rows
Will really have to up the anti to make the new series launch.
Not giving up yet though :)
Last night was terrible. Absolutely terrible. I sat down once the monsters were asleep and started to finish the 10 rows I needed to stay on target.
Halfway through a row i suddenly found myself short of wool. Strange since I know there was plenty left. I look on the floor and there is the rest of the wool laying there... It had snapped. Rather than worry about changing colour mid row I "un-knitted" to the end of the row and started again. Sure enough after a row and a half it happened again, and again, and again.
I was losing my temper. I was having to unknit and tie on a new bit of thread every other row. I check the wool and found that at some point I must have left the scissors uncovered in my bag and it had snipped through quite a few lengths of wool.
I lost control completely
I dropkicked my knitting bag, with scarf inside, down the stairs. There was wool EVERYWHERE.
I sat and contemplated what to do next. I was fed up, annoyed by slow progress and constant problems. I told R to put the whole lot in the bin. I was done!
He suggested unkitting back to the last section and casting off to create a smaller scarf. Because at least then I would have something to show for all my hard work. I wasnt convinced.
So i took a time out. Ate some chocolate and chilled watching TV for half an hour. Then R reminded me of how excited I would be to finally own my own scarf. And not one that was bought but made with my own hands.
So I decided to give it another go. At this point it was 11pm and I was falling asleep but I HAD to hit my 20 row target. I looked at the last 6 rows, they were a state. So I unravelled to the previous section and started the block again.
At 12.30 I had hit my 20 row target and went to bed a happy bunny.
Onward and Upward I say
Woah its been almost a month since an update! I have reached 600 rows...That means that I am just 175 rows from halfway.
I have really got to get a move on. At this point I am lucky to get more than 10 rows a day. This HAS to change.
On the way to work I can get through 6 rows and 8 rows on the return journey, barring distraction (i'm looking at you Facebook and Twitter). So realistically with a little effort I could start hitting 20 or 25 rows a day. If I can carry this pace over to the weekend It will take 47 days to finish (based on 20 per day).
With a bit more effort when i have free time (such as quiet lunches at work etc) then I *could* push to finish before Series 5 hits the screens
How awesome would that be? Sitting to watch the Doctor with my very own finished scarf.
I MUST MAKE THIS HAPPEN
After going so long without a mistake I have made a monumental cock up. Luckily though its easily fixed.
I had saved the pattern on my PDA to remind me of colour changes and row numbers. I changed colour this morning from mustard to slate and knitted 10 rows only to find out that it should have been a mustard-green change. So I have undone it and will re-knit it correctly.
Going to London tomorrow which means an extra 5 hours knitting time!! I must remember to put the purple beige and brown wool into my bag as i could potentially get through 60 rows. I know, I know 60 rows in 6 and a half hours is awful but I am getting there...slowly, very very slowly
On another note - congrats to Hammy for getting the knitting bit finished! Woot Woot
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Shiny new progress bar! I am officially 30.85% through. We'll have a party at 50% OK ;)
Thats right people - the first quarter is complete!!! I am still extremely jealous of Hammy, who has almost finished, but i am happy with my progress so far...although there is a slight mystery over a missing stitch that i cannot find but at this point i am not going to dwell on that seeing as it looks ok.
The weekend before I was sat at my parents house watching my grandmother knit a cardigan and i noticed a huge safety pin clipped to the end of one section. So I asked what she was using it for and she told me it was a "stich saver". It was holding a row of stiches in place whilst she worked on another section. That was when i decided. I would pin the unfinished end with a stich saver and sew in off the unfinished ends so that to the untrained eye it would look as if i had a finished scarf.
At lunch on the Monday the first thing i did was pick up 2 stich savers and a darning needle and started to sew in the row ends. It didnt take as long as i expected and by Wednesday Morning i had a wearable scarf!
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