What happens when I have three six-day work weeks in a row? I find myself scrambling for more brainless commute knitting and ignore everything else. Alas, brainless projects sometimes still need planning.
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1. Finish knitting cowl for co-worker at a knitting party. Cast on for Commute Socks 3. Needles: US size 2, 60 sts. (Yarn: Online Supersocke 100 Comedy Color, in color no. 1282.)
2. Realize 30 minutes into 1.5-hours-each-way commute that resulting fabric isn't tight enough for hard-wearing socks.
3. Decide that socks that wear well over time is not hard to achieve with this yarn, so knitting them at a loose gauge would just be silly.
4. Ponder how personal gauge has changed over time and how the brainlessness of vanilla socks are now up in the air.
5. Decide to frog sock and restart at home on US 1 needles. Put sock away.
6. Look around train helplessly, not knowing how to occupy self on rest of commute, dreading the trip home. Play sudoku on phone in defeat.
7. Tell co-workers at work about knitting problems, and receive awkward nods in response. Remain uncertain if sock problem has been explained adequately.
8. Sit next to fellow knitter/co-worker-from-another-department/acquaintance on bus. Talk about knitting. Explain sock problem to someone who understands!
9. On train, ponder working on sock for comfort, despite frogging plans.
10. Take out sock; continue knitting.
11. Say goodbye to fellow knitter.
12. Have stunning realization that cuffs can be obnoxiously long and loose without compromising integrity of sock.
13. At home, finish purple stripe of cuff.
14. Switch to smaller needles and increase to 76 sts.
15. Knit away.
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