No! Stop….
EDITED TO ADDÂ – NOPE I AM NOT PREGNANT (see Glucose Tolerance Test)
Don’t start another project! You’ve got too much to finish.
Stop I said. I know you saw that Cleckheaton Bamboo that would be perfect for a friend’s baby thats about to enter the world.
Oh. It’s so nice. And soft. What would you make? A surprise jacket? Nice….go on then – have a little try – then you can go back to the other stuff.
Hey – this knits up so quickly – it’s those HUGE 4mm needles isn’t it. No more of those little itty bitty sock needles.
Interesting. A few rows. But hang on. It’s your friends 4th BABY – after 3 boys she’s having a girl. She gone PINK mad. Everything she’s buying is fluffy/pink/girly/sweet – don’t know if the surprise jacket has that sort of look.
Maybe you should do a Baby Sweater on Two needles instead….yeah….that’s more girly. You can rip that out – it’s only a few rows…go on.
Oh! Wonderful. Now I know why everyone is doing it/or has done it. Wonderful. Oh! It’s very slippery stuff on the Knit Picks Nickel Plated. Hey – swap to the Harmony Needles.
Good move – now you are cooking with gas…..go baby go.
Oh. Hang on – it’s those “pithy” instructions that everyone mentions. You aren’t really au fait with the “unknit” thingey of EZs seeing as it’s your first EZ project. Stuggle on. Are you sure it’s the best project to take with you when you sit for 2 hours after a Glucose Tolerance Test. You should be right. You can work it out.
Oh. Errrk. Swallow it down. It’s not that bad. “Tastes like Lemonade” all the RN’s here say. Errrk. Burp. Force it down. Erk.
What? A blood test. Hold on – will finish the row.
Ok.
Oh. Feeling a bit sick – don’t worry. Struggle on. It’s ok. Eh? What’s that?
At 4.2 inches, work 25 stitches, then work back and forth on the next 2sts (plus 7 sts cast on at each end of them;42 sts in all)
Hmmmm. Clear as mud. Ring Ailsa – nope – she’s at work. Ring Donna – she’ll know.
What? Yep! Got it. Thanks. That noise? Yes. Distracting isn’t it. It’s a little old chinese lady sitting beside me tyring to force down that drink. Hold on. Think she is going to be sick. Ewwww. I FEEL SICK.
What? Wee in a jar? And a blood test? Sure. Wait a sec…..47,48,49, hang on – finishing the row.
Ok. Yep. That’s working…..done the sleeve. Much better when you moved away from little old Lady. Breathe in breathe out.
Ok. Heh heh heh – me so clever with this EZ thing – I’ll knit across to the next sleeve and pop the sleeve stitches on a holder and do the body and sides. All the way across. Purl row. Hang on. That looks a little weird.
What?
Place remaining sts on needles, knitting up 4 x 7 sts at the cast-on sleeve-sts…..
Buggar. Will have to frog …um – ok – just 2 rows. Heh heh – loving THIS project NOT. Luckily it’s only for a baby.
Ok…..another blood test? LET ME FINISH THE RO………….arrrrgh.
Step away from the knitting.
Breathe in
Breathe out.
It’ll be all done by tonight. I love it.
Think I will cast on another tomorrow……..
Did it once, hope never to do it again! God, the indigestion!
That jacket is absolutely beautiful. Damn. Now I’ve got another thing for Til to knit! EZ is NOT easy.
Hahaha, having just done the same test (erck!), it was my first thought, so thanks for the edit!!
Lovely job on the cardi, its so sweet! I have long coveted it and plan to cast on very soon (once Im over my baby beanie and mitten phase). Might need some tranlation help now youre an old hand!
The jacket looks great. I need to knit something for a baby and trying to decide between this one you’re doing or the BSJ, can’t make up my mind maybe I’ll do both.
I had the glucose tolerance test when I was pregnant with my son. Yukkie stuff.
Hope your tests went well.
Golly, the glucose tolerance test sounds icky (thought they didn’t do that much now?). Baby jacket looks great.
Just wait until you have to have a colonoscopy. Erk.
Did I miss an announcement? Please fill me in … love ya …
OK, baby jacket looks great … but a more pressing issue ..
Are you’re pregnant?
In any case, I hope the tests went well.
Oh the jacket looks good!! Hope all the tests turn out well, sorry about the bad stuff though, yuck!
ack, I have to have one on the 16th. ewww mine is orange flavor. Where are the stupid jelly beans that everyone keeps saying are being developed for the test.
Why not make it chocolate cake or soemthing with an inch of frosting, something besides nasty orange kool aid concentrate…
I have trouble with EZ too, over my head lol I’m a dumb knitter lol.
Mmmm nice knitting. Sorry about the other stuff. Sounds erky.
Yeah, I have regular [bi-annually] glucose tolerance tests -awful, aren’t they?
Nice knitting though!
Oh, such fortitude, kntting through all those medical tests. I hate it when you have to drink the boogelly ‘liquid’. I had aniseed once. Awful.
The cardigan is so gorgeous!! What girl wouldn’t love it?? Hope your tests all went well!!
It is so beautiful —- tremendously sorry the instructions are such a bear.
Isn’t it a wonderful little project? Ok, maybe not during that test. I’m already campaigning my OB to let me out of the pregnancy one they make us do. Also, the Ravelry thread in the Zimmermaniacs group is a wonderful help for first-timers, but probably the RNs didn’t let you use a computer? Pity. You’ve done a fabulous job, though, and I bet it’s all smooth sailing from here.