Fourth Try's a Charm

The first square for this month's project--a green square completed in seed st--I knew I wanted to make for a while. It just fit.

For the second square, I'm trying to use up some pink yarn and it's not going far. I've tried three different st patts so far. I'm choosing them out of a book (The Knitting Directory, Alison Jenkins) and they're coming out a lot more ...vertically squished than the photos in there. A purl st chevron, moss st triangles (purl triangles + knit triangles)... I think I'm just going to settle on the caterpillar st and keep going once I frog it and cast on enough sts (oops).

Blah.. knitter's block I suppose. At least all this frogging is giving me practice at the double cast on. I still don't like how you can't tell how long the tail is going to be beforehand, but it's so much more fun to cast on that way than knitting them on. ...a nice change, we'll say, to use fingers instead of needles.

Knitting continentally isn't getting any easier (thank you, learning curve). The seed st was awesome and easy; surprisingly knitting and especially purling are more difficult when not alternating st. Weird.

But my commercial break from The Incredibles is over. Back to the needles for me.