Slow Progress

Smallest started dance last week, which means she has class Mondays 4-5, and 6:30-9:15, Tuesdays 7:45-8:45, Wednesdays there's piano at 5:30 and then dance from 6:30-9:15, Thursdays 7:15-8:30, and Friday 4-5.  That doesn't include her ballroom lessons.  We're hoping the Thursday class will be temporary, which will free up the evening for her.  I'm hoping she'll find time to get her homework done.  We'll have to see how things go.

While she is happy to be back at dance, and was more happy when school started this week (late due to Harvey), it means our evenings are pretty busy with driving around now, and so there's been less time to sit and watch Game of Thrones and knit.  Alas.  My life is so hard.  I did get some time last night.  I'm hoping that I'm between 1/3 and 1/2 done with the last stripe.  I did notice that our young kitten chewed the on the yarn last night and broke it in two.  Humph.  That's annoying!  Bad kitty.  Here are the cats, the naughty one is on the right.

I took Jeff's sweater with me with traveling with Smallest recently, but we spend most of our time playing a mystery game, and the plane was too crowded to allow for a complicated project, so it has just been sitting.  Maybe this weekend there will be some progress.

At any rate, this morning I decided that I need a new travel project.  The blanket is too big, although not mentally challenging, but I am going to start riding the bus to work more and that's too much to haul around.  The sweater is too fiddly with all the cables and counting of rows and such.  I have tons of sock yarn to make socks for Middle, so I've cast on another pair.  This pair is the Swirl Sock and I'm using some lime green yarn that I bought somewhere.  It's from Morningside Road Fiber, a local dyer who sells out of Lucky Ewe Yarn Shop in New Braunfels.  That means I bought this yarn sometime this summer when Jeff and I were up that way.
The pattern recommends using Judy's Magic Cast On, but as I was watching the tutorial on the bus, I realized I couldn't do it because I didn't have a circular needle.  This is as far as I got before getting to my stop:

(I took the picture at work.  Shhh.....)  I think I would like to try the other cast on, but it will have to wait for the other sock.  I'm taking Middle to the orthodontist this morning (fingers crossed that she gets the all clear to get her braces off!) so I need something to work on while I wait.

That's all for now.  I will share if there is sweater progress!

Margie