Oh Noes!!!

I was bad and started knitting up Knit Picks' Mr Foster sock monkey to go along with reading Penn Jillette's novel Sock but after finishing one leg, I've lost the fourth US 1 DPN. Much sadness but that's what I get for for starting a new project before finishing my old ones.

On the bright side, it's gotten me to return to my other projects. I've picked up my gray and red Indigo Banded Cardigan from Knitscene again. I tried to go back to the DROPS bolero but I'm sort of stuck at a weird place on the front panels because of some technical difficulties. The pattern has gotten surprisingly difficult in this area. So, I'm supposed to slip 9 stitches towards the mid-front WHILE binding off for the neckline but which stitches constitute the "mid-front" stitches? At the same time I'm also supposed to do the decreasing like on the back panel too. Maybe it's because I like to knit in the evenings or after a long day's work but I feel like I'm over-complicating this pattern. It's probably why returning to my Indigo Banded Cardigan seems like the path of least resistance as I've knit it before and the pattern is pretty pretty self-explanatory.

Earlier this weekend I've also discovered that Florida may end up being my permanent home in the next coming months so that cardigan may not see much wear down south as it would have in Wisconsin. I may have to reevaluate my knitting for southern comfort. Less on the wool and more on the cotton and certainly more light and lacey shawls than my cozy cardis.