Thursday, June 10, 2004

I didn’t sleep at all Last Night…

...or the night before (:  Last night it was toss, drift, wake, turn, drift, wake - repeat ad infinitum.  Night before I woke up at 2:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep.  Gack!  I don’t have sleep problems ordinarily, but when I do it’s seriously frustrating.  This impairs my knitting as I’m too tired to have any motivation and even if I could summon the interest I’d make so many stupid mistakes that I’d spend the next two days in the frog pond.

I did, however, manage this:

Cuffed Slipper

As it didn’t seem this was something I could mess up too badly, I fetched out the prototype slipper and picked up the stitches around the opening to work a fold-over cuff.  I wound up with 40 stitches and worked 2x2 ribbing for about 3”.  Then I switched over to stockinette and worked another 3.5 - 4”.  The ribbing lies under the fold-over and is there mainly to keep the cuff snugged up to the ankle.  What shows is the reverse stockinette of the fold-over.  You could show the front side of the stockinette by purling every round instead of knitting, as I did.

I wound up binding off twice :) The first time, I was determined to figure out how to do an I-cord bind-off.  And I did figure it out!  I was thrilled to see this neat rounded edge appearing around the top of the cuff.  Thrilled, that is, until I finished off and tried to put the slipper on.  The bind-off was too tight :( So I ripped it out and did a regular bind off - very loosely.  That worked.

What I’d do in the future would be to increase the number of stitches on the last worked row.  I had 40, so I’d probably increase by one third to one half - because I really liked the I-cord bind-off, but it has to be done tightly in order to look good (doesn’t it?) so you need more stitches in order to actually be able to wear the slipper afterwards.  That’s my working theory anyway :).

Sorry about the trivial post and its lateness.

I really, really hope I can sleep tonight!

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1. Insomnia is NOT trivial.  I hate when that happens—throws me off my stride at work, plays havoc with my eating, gotta rip out anything I knit… Hope you settle back into good sleep soon.

   Posted by Rob  on  06/10  at  03:19 PM
   Location : PA



2. Yep - all those things.  Thanks for the good thought

   Posted by  on  06/10  at  04:01 PM
   Location : in a yellow submarine



3. Those slippers are seriously cool!! Get some rest, m’dear! Hugs!

   Posted by Stasia  on  06/10  at  09:31 PM
   Location : WI, USA



4. Thanks Stasia - my hope is that they’ll be warm :) Though I’ve got a few months lead time for warm slippers!

   Posted by  on  06/10  at  10:19 PM
   Location : North to Alaska



5. Cute, cute, cute, cute! Now, sleep! :)

   Posted by Rachael  on  06/10  at  11:36 PM
   Location :



6. Thanks Rachael - I think I’m going to try a stockinette version as the garter stitch has a bit too much horizontal stretch.  What can I say?  I live to experiment!

   Posted by  on  06/11  at  09:25 AM
   Location : East of Eden

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