Hrumph!

[hlmauera]

It must be because I'm tired and do all my knitting late at night but I tell you knitting has not been relaxing lately.
I'm working on the Advent calendar Scarf for 2011 I saw it worked with the Noro Kirameki yarn and loved the way the color changes worked with the pattern.  Basically this scarf has 24 different patterns which are proposed to be knit one per day during Advent.  I don't celebrate Advent but that doesn't prevent me from loving the scarf or at least in theory.  I'm using Noro Kirameki color #7.

In reality, I do still love the way the yarn works with the pattern but knitting one section per day would be rather ambitions with my schedule.  I'm on day 5 and I started on February 19th.  This last section I worked probably a total of 10 times but could not get it right.  Once, I knit two repeats on the wrong side of the scarf. ARGH!  I finally made it through that pattern but I really need to think about this when I'm knitting.  You can't get into the swing of a pattern when it changes every 20 or so rows. I do like the way it looks and feels (a little touch of Cashmere in the yarn helps) although it really is still so much spaghetti as lace is before blocking.

I CANNOT watch Downton Abbey while knitting this.  Even listening to Mansfield park on audio book was a little questionable.

Speaking of Downton Abbey, does anyone else get highly agitated by dramatic irony?  Does anyone else watch the sisters fighting and think, "seriously, you hate your sister so much you can't see how much your malice is going to destroy not just her but your entire family?"  I think I'm at the end of the third episode and the dramatic irony has me in a tizzy.  Stupid stupid girls.  It's a measure of a good show though, that you can get so involved as to think in such term, I suppose.