The beginning of SweetGirl's Wildflower sweater. I will readily admit that the intarsia is KICKING MY BEHIND. I can't knit it on the train because it is too complex (too many bits of yarn to keep track of) and there are just not enough free hours in a day to keep it going at a good pace at home.
I'm probably sour about this project because I got to just about this point once already and had to frog the whole thing because it just wasn't working (was not getting the hang of the intarsia) but this time around it is going much faster and looking far better. Hopefully it is a sign of good things to come with this sweater.
In other knitting news, I'm almost done with the back of LittleMan's sweater - the cabling is simple and fast (which is why that project is my train project).
Knitting on the train has always been pretty interesting. Before the days of iPods, I used to get really distracted by all of the people on the train and their *sometimes* loudly rude conversations. Other times people figured it was a good time to ask about knitting, and for someone who is easily distracted and frogs a lot, it was just not helpful for someone to start asking about "what you knitting?" or "how long have you been knitting?". Admittedly, it's nice that people take an interest but I'm also a little selfish (since having 2 little ones at home leaves very little time to knit and those hours on the train are a nice stretch of time to accomplish things). Now, I just plop my earbuds in and ignore the rest of the world. It makes me seem antisocial, but really I am trying to maximize my time by catching up on my PotterCast and making a dent in my knitting :)
Speaking of dents. Wildflowers call. I need to turn my attitude around on this sweater because otherwise it is nevah going to get done!
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