Frogging with the Frogs

i have remarkably little knitting to show for my time in france.  i had plenty of metro and car time to knit my june project spectrum socks but for some odd reason, could not for the life of me remember how to do a picot edge.  so i did a lot of casting on, knitting, fudging the picot edge, ignoring the fact that it did not look right, kept on knitting, stopped being able to ignore that it did not look right, kept on knitting anyway, then threw down my knitting in disgust, then frogged.

i did this at least half a dozen times. 

finally i did what i should have done from the beginning, i looked it up.  duh. 

here are my project spectrum socks for june (yeah i know i'm way behind) -- the second sock knit almost entirely during our flights back.

i also knit up AND FROGGED and knit up again the saturday market bag from magknits.  although a simple project, it took me 4 tries to "get" the pattern stitch.  no it's not hard, but my hands HATED knitting yarn overs in worsted weight yarn on size 15 needles.  i ended up going down a needle size because i was not going to let such a simple pattern BREAK me.  and i needed another bag to bring home stuff in.  (of course i could have just gone out and purchased a string bag for very few euros, as an older lady pointed out to me when she saw me knitting in a cafe, but what would be the point of that....LADY!).

 
   

i also didn't kitchener the two ends of the strap together, because i couldn't believe that would hold once i had stuff in the bag, but instead bound off each strap and tied them together in a big knot. 

finally... what's this?  finished i-cord?

Comments

[Martha]

I might have to make that bag, too...

The scarf, she is done??

[Bookish Wendy]

I love that you knitted another bag just because you needed one. A true knitter!

[Beth S.]

Hang on... is that a FINISHED Scarf Style scarf I see? (I forget its proper name but I think of it as "Maryse's scarf" now, thanks to you.)

You big tease, you. ;-)

[Jackie]

Love the bag - I'm not usually a big fan of the knitted bags, but that one is pretty fantastic.

Also, we *need* a bigger picture of the olympic scarf!! Way to go!!!

[Cathi]

Holy shitshow, I can't believe all of those ends- although I feel like I'm fighting the weaving demon right now, and I'm winning, dammit!

I like your projects- that bag looks nice, did you use stash yarn?

[Chris]

Oh, that market bag is excellent. Must knit...

Need more details on that i-cord and your finished Olympic knitting???

[claudia]

That's a very cute bag.

[Carole]

The Olympic knitting? You've been working on the Olympic knitting?!?!? Love the market bag, too.

[suzanne]

FINISHED I CORD?????? You went for GOLD! You have nearly conquered your soul-killer? Congrats!!!!

[Vera]

I really like that Sat. Market Bag. I would probably have problems adjusting to the large needles too since I'm basically a small needle person.

Still, I need to give the bag a try.