Oh Right, Garter Eats Yardage

I have to remind myself that knitting progress on larger projects will never be as instantaneous as I'd like it to be. Also, I am not ever going to knit at the speed that some of my friends and colleagues and podcast friends do. They show up with an entire new sweater every few weeks, I am still knitting baby blankets. 

Now, granted, I started Baby Blanket 1 -- shown here complete except for weaving in the ends and a wash before it goes to the recipient -- on February 2 and Baby Blanket 2 on February 10.  It's been not quite two months and I have more than 1.5 blankets done and that's not been all of my knitting in the past two months. It's been most of it, for sure, but I'm making progress.  Each of these blankets is over 1000 yards of wool-- close on 1400 yards I think when finished.  For me, that'd be at least a sweaters lot.  1.5 Sweaters in 6 weeks would be amazing. And garter eats yardage. 

After this though, I may need to spend some quality time with accessories that take one skein of worsted or DK weight and just fly off the needles. The kind I start in the morning on the train and have halfway done by the time I finish the evening commute. Or where a week sees me getting through nearly two of them between usual travel. 

Even socks seem to go faster than this -- though the current socks are only getting knit at movies at present. And since we don't go to  movies very often... 

I did find one other potential trick -- see the gold bar? That's a book anchor. It's intended mostly for hardcover books, though it looks like it might also work for a paperback. It anchors the pages open without you needing to hold the book.  Which means my hands could be free for knitting.  

That's been a long standing conflict for me--there are books I want to read in print or can only get in print and much as I love audiobooks, there are a number of books I refuse to listen to. These are generally nonfiction; I rely on my audiobooks for more escape literature. But when I'm knitting to deadlines, I can't "waste" time reading.  And often I want print, not electronic.  I read on a screen all day and there are definitely times I just want to be off screen and not distracted for an hour.  

But for now, more sock knitting time. Off to  another movie.