catch and release

The Great Circle Sweater did not work out. Too much circle, not enough sweater. So I raveled back a week's worth of knitting to the point where it started going wrong. If only I had counted my stitches. But my attention span is too short to count 400 stitches, so I didn't bother. And as a friend says, "So how's that working out for you?"

Not bothering isn't the most effective way of achieving what you want. Since I CAN count to one hundred, I did so, and placed a marker. And again. And again. I thought that after I did my final increase, I was up to 480 stitches in a round. I frogged back to before that increase round and discovered I had 604 stitches. Well no wonder it took so long to knit a round. 604, doubled in each stitch equals a fricking hell of a lot of stitches. When I put it on, I was Miss Rufflebutt of 1968. It used up yarn at a horrendous rate, too. Su-prize, su-praz, supraz!

It's a great thing that I am, at heart, a process knitter. Frogging and re-knitting is not that much of a hardship since I'm on no schedule right now.

I've been taking GED tests in to the jail every morning this week. And afternoons, I've been sewing. My friend, CE was diagnosed with breast cancer, and since there is a history of it in her family, she is going to have a double mastectomy. Her favorite color is orange.

So I made her a comforter.

She is a single gal, living alone, so I am co-ordinating her care-takers. I have the e-mail address of about 15 people I have never met who love her and want to help. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any suggestions or cautions? Will she need help for weeks on end, or just a couple of days? Should I set up a blog for this, or are there better ways to get information to and from a bunch of people? And what would be nice treats for someone in her situation? Chocolate? Cookies? Dancing boys? Any input would be welcome.