Here is a progress pic from yesterday:
Not too bad. However, it is key to remember that before this morning I hadn’t worked since I cast on for this progress. My job, on a good day, occupies much of my day. I commute via public transportation, approximately 1.5 hours per day. I work for at least 9.0 hours per day, usually without a lunch. I sleep for between 8.0 - 9.0 hours per night (this is a bare minimum for me, I require a crap load of sleep. I wish I could fix this.) Add misc tasks in there - showering, eating, taking care of Rob and the animals - approximately 2.0 hours. What do I have left:
1.5 + 9.0 + 9.0 + 2.0 = 21.5 occupied hours OR 24.0 hours - 21.5 hours = 2.5 free hours.
See, math is easy 
Basically if I have good, normal days at work I can get at least 2 hours of knitting in during a week day. I can knit during my commute but I never make a significant dent. Too much going on. This gives me 10 total hours of weeknight knitting during the competition.
Not a lot and I’m worried. Can you call in knitting to work?
Here is a close up of the increases on the arm (and my shadow..me and my shaaaadooow…blah, blah, blah, blah.)
This pattern uses the knit, knit through the back loop increase. kfb? Is that the abbreviation? (forgive me, I am stuck on my couch and am comfy and not getting up for trivial knitting terms.)
I have never liked this increase and had I had my wits about me I wouldn’t have used it here. I’m mad at those holes. Holes, you stink. I’m hoping that the yarn will fill in a bit with blocking (which it will, as demonstrated by my swatch.)
With this pattern you are increasing at the end and beginning of the round. I would do paired increases M1R and M1L instead of the KFB(?). I’m just a bigger fan of the V the M1’s create.
Rya is the pooch in my last picture. She’s my sweet baby and my knitting partner. She is also spoiled rotten.
Are we bored with these posts yet? I am.
Me, after a few drinks with the shell of a knitted Tetrahymena on my head.
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