This week I 'ave been knitting mostly *...

The Cuff of Clessidra.

Which sounds like a long forgotten suspense novel.
This is only my second go readers, that's all.
Even though my work puts me fair and square into the world of the micro millimetre on a daily basis apparently I can't add up.
I get to the cabley bits and I realise only then that I've cast on 78 instead of 80 stitches and I'm wondering why the pattern sequence isn't working out.
Yep.
I am however loving the Rubi + Lana wool. Lovin' it sick (as Kimmie would say...except that I'm sure Kimmie would only knit in hot pink acrylic).
And very happy with the new 2mm dpns.
Shopping for which I ran into lovely Missy Fee who I haven't seen for years. As energy-challenged as I was at the time (sorry for the braindeath, Fee!) I wasn't so tired to not notice her cute knitting bag in this that I've been coveting for a while.
So buoyed up on "new project rush" brought on by finally procuring the tools I needed for Clessidra, I don't think the full enormity of the task ahead really sank in until I printed the pattern out.
I think it was a few minutes later when my printer was still spitting out pages that it finally did sink in.
Seven pages. Add to that two pages of Knitty-specific abbreviations and another two of the accompanying 'cable cheating' tutorial and that comes to an eleven page pattern! For a pair of socks!
So these may just be ready for wearing on Christmas Day (a little reminder for our Northern Hemisphere readers...Xmas day in Australia is usually somewhere in barbeque/sauna territory).

Knitpicks marketing dept seems to have gone into overdrive getting their needle range into Aus stores, and I was tempted to try the 'two circulars' method on Clessidra while eyeing the knitpicks circs off, but Gabriella seems to have written the pattern specifically (or is that "Pacificaloy"...more culturally specific Kath & Kim references..sorry again to non Aussie readers) written for four dpns and who am I to ignore that?
That and the fact that I may just have to enroll in the upcoming and spookily well-timed "Knitting Socks on Two Circulars" class at Tapestry Craft before I'm game.

* Apologies to Fast Show