I went to bed on time and slept well for more than eight hours. Ha!
And then I did my complete morning routine including 50 minutes of manuscript time. I’d say, taking most of the email off my smartwatch is a good move.
My husband and I continued our conversation from the day before about chance and outside forces steering our lives. A lot of what we were talking about hit our respective trigger points, so not an easy talk. But we did end up understanding each other better which is always good.
At the same time I was trying to do the gauge swatch for the Wildshore Blanket CAL. I had to redo it (note to self, don’t try to learn a new stitch pattern while having an argument with your spouse) because I hadn’t read the pattern properly and the scallops ended up square. Second time went better:
And yes, I am aware there is a mistake in the first lavender row. And then I had to redo it again because the swatch ended up being too small and I switched to a bigger hook, did it again, and now the tension matches and I like the fabric better.
And then it turned out that the milk had gone sour, we didn’t have meat for lunch, and were out of both kinds of potatoes, so after doing the dishes I went off to the nearby supermarket.
Back home, unpacked everything, put my contact lenses in and went walking /running:
I was a little late in coming back home but that wasn’t a problem because lunch wasn’t ready either. So I took a shower and then we had lunch:
After lunch I ate all the sweets and read, played Genshin and started the actual blanket. I didn’t get far, though, before it was time for the weekly writers Zoom.
During Zoom I tried setting up the foundation row for the blanket. I counted to 161, then crocheted back and ended up with 159 stitches. But it said the blanket needed to be 161 stitches wide. So I ripped all those treble crochets back, added to chain stitches and started again. Counted (while listening to and talking with people), everything was fine, I had 161 stitches.
I checked the pattern and it said: „at the end of the row you should have 159 stitches“. So my first try had been correct after all. I briefly thought about just decreasing two stitches in the next row but ended up undoing that row yet again, plus to chain stitches and starting over.
By then it was time for our weekly (or not so weekly) episode of ‚Columbo‘, I started writing this post, did my daily list, and went to bed.
The plan for today includes making gnocchi from scratch. My guess is that lunch will be late again…
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