Today I decided to take a good look at the knitting bag, which is getting heavy to carry, and see exactly what’s in there. My thought was to inventory the projects and try to complete a few, thus lightening the load.
The first project I found was this one – a pair of socks that I have been working on rather sporadically since the spring.
As they were fairly close to completion, I abandoned my original task and sat down to knit on them. It turns out this was a huge mistake. No sooner had I started knitting when one of those lovely double-pointed needles leapt out of my hand, did a perfect arc through the air and landed, point down, about here:
That is the floor of the deck. So, yes my needle was now under the deck. The second part of the trick was that it was safely hidden under the deck between two supporting beams – like so:
See those 2 vertical boards at the bottom of the deck? My needle had landed right between them.
I wasn’t really sure how to fix this one. Mike (DH) came to the rescue. Armed with his Leatherman, a coat hanger (bent into various shapes) and with me holding the flashlight he managed to work the needle to the edge of the deck where it could be retrieved. Extra brownie points to him for sure!
Tools for the Rescue
The Rescued One
I have now completed the inventory of the knitting bag. It contains 4 socks at various levels of completion. You’ve already seen one. Here are the other 3 (one of them is the Rockin’ Sock Club sock from March 2009):
There are also 4 sweaters. The Traveling Sweater you have seen recently;
I have also been working on Flowers Of Life.
Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Green Sweater is stalled a bit.
And finally, the Irish Moss sweater from the book Aran Knitting is suppose to be for Mike. I started it on his 50th birthday in January. Given his heroic efforts of today, perhaps I should invest more time in it!
So, now I think I will go, sit on my deck, and try to work my way through some of these projects without further mishap. Stay tuned for a status report.
