No pictures today. I don't think there's much interesting about a half-finished navy blue sock and I've decided that I am not going to take pictures of something I am going to rip. I did have one successful project finishing, but it's unveiling will have to wait until later in the week. I spent a lot of time working on some HTML for my web pages. I'm hoping to do book reviews of my growing collection of knitting books.

I did decide a few things last night:

1) I am going to rip out the little bit of progress I had made on Nettle (my Chamonix sweater) and work on Neroli instead. Why? I am not sure exactly, but I wasn't feeling interested or inspired by Nettle at all last week, and that is usally a sign (especially since I had just started the sweater) that its not something I want to do. It's a lovely sweater but I guess I am just not in an Aran mood right now .

2) I am going to rip my fingerless Fair Isle glove (the thing I decided not to take a picture of) back to the cuff and start over. Why? Well, lets just say that when I break a circular needle, it's a sign that I am knitting too tightly. The pattern calls for 0's, I was knitting on 1's and my gauge still wasn't right. Now that wouldn't normally bother me except that the fabric has a stiff, almost board-like quality. So tonight it comes out. I might actually do the re-work on DPs (like the pattern suggests) because the last couple of rows I did after I broke the circular were on DPs and they feel a little looser. I also have to say that I really feel like I was fighting this project the whole way and I really didn't enjoy the process very much. So maybe ripping this one is a means for me to give this project (and it's process) another shot. After all, I didn't enjoy knitting Continental "the right way" until I did it for a while on a few projects and got used to it. Now I love it. I want to give Fair Isle knitting the same chance.

I also took a trip around the blog ring... something I haven't done in a while.... amazing how large it is and how many people are doing neat things. I think my daily reads list will be growing.

Okay, now I am going to go work on a sock -- I must say, knitting socks has a very therapeautic quality for me.

Happy Monday to everyone!