Oddly enough, I’m not ignoring the sunglasses case. Even though I never wear sunglasses. It starts with an inch of 1 x 1 ribbing, so I cast on and knit a few rows in 1 x 1 ribbing, and it gave me a trapezoid. You can’t tell just how trapezoidal it is from the photo (crap lighting again), so I added some helpful orange lines to it in Photoshop.

Trust me, it was really trapezoidal. (It seems I have a complete inability to take photographs that accurately represent reality. The orange lines aren’t as helpful as I’d hoped, either. They make it seem like it has too many sides to be a trapezoid.) So I figured I had cast on way too tightly, which is why my rows of ribbing seemed so loose in comparison and the whole thing (all, like, four rows of it) was now a trapezoid. So I decided to rip it out and cast on more loosely the next time. So I did, and after I’d knit a few rows of ribbing this time, it kind of resembled a fishing net. (I can’t believe I didn’t realize what the problem was at this point, but oh well.) I ripped it out and tried it again, but it still looked kind of like a fishing net. This is not what ribbing is supposed to look like. Hmm. Search Knittyboard posts. Whenever anyone has a problem with ribbing, someone else asks them if they remembered to bring the yarn to the back before knitting and the front before purling. Yes, I did that, because every book and every article online told me to do that and so it’s hammered into my brain. Ah, people say that ribbing often is looser than stockinette. So I have to try to knit tighter. Duh. I should have figured that out myself. Usually I knit too tightly, so I was consciously trying not to knit so tightly, but it was ribbing, so that just made everything really loose and that’s why it looked like a fishing net.

I ripped everything out again, and on this fourth attempt I got through the inch of ribbing in a non-trapezoidal, non-fishing net way. Now I just have 6 1/2 inches of garter stitch to go before I sew it up. (And then I suppose I can put my sunglasses in it and keep them there forever, since I never wear them.) Okay, even I can do this. It’s looking as if I won’t wind up ignoring it for weeks on end after all.

Oh, yeah. I made a bracelet a few weeks ago. I was in the same room as some beads, and somehow it just kind of happened.

It actually looks better here than in real life. In real life the colours of the beads aren’t quite so bright. So in this case, my photo that doesn’t accurately represent reality is a good thing.

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