Nightly Knitting

The evening routine at our house: a glass of wine together at the kitchen table to talk over our day with each other, then move to the family room, with dinner on TV trays. I know, I know - wretched, but the kids are grown and gone, and when they lived here we ate every single meal around the table. Now we like to eat on TV trays, in front of the TV. And watch Tivo'd programs so we can zap the annoying commercials. Actually it's very fun to watch American Idol singing and the results on the same night, or two episodes of Lost in one evening, with hopes that will somehow make it all make sense.

After dinner is cleared away I knit. Every single night. I keep a basket of knitting right beside my chair, and it's a nice way to spend the evening, just knitting away while Don mans the remote. Men like to man the remote and that's fine with me.

So here's my latest result of nightly knitting. A very exciting petal dishcloth.


So it's not really very exciting, but I still love it for it's homeyness. I was having so much fun knitting it, I kept on going and it has two more points than it should, which means it has a little lump in the middle, but that's okay. So do I... I'm still really happy with how it turned out. With this knitting project I learned how to do a partial bind off, to knit and turn around and knit the other direction, a new way to bind off, and to count how many points I've done, no matter how much fun I'm having.

It's going to do a dandy job of those nightly dishes we clear away. And tonight I get to start a brand new pattern. I'm thinking, 'Bamboo Cloth Variation 2', knit up in something pink with some nice baby soap for a new mommy.