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*flops in mild exhaustion*
Jul. 2nd, 2010 07:22 pmSo I am nowhere near as far along on the lace scarf test knit thing as I "should" be, given a) an estimated time of 15 hours for the whole scarf, and b) the speed at which the other testers are progressing. Some of that is not being the fastest knitter ever, but I was kind of curious how much of the lack-of-progress was due to knitting speed, and how much was attrition to other effects, both the amount of time it takes to get started after a significant break and the "it is lace, therefore I am asking for trouble if I knit more than a few rows at a time" self-imposed pacing.
Thus, today was Knitting Day.
Not, of course, at maximum possible knitting speed, of the gun-to-head knit-or-die sort. I took breaks, for lunch, for necessary toilet stuff, for getting refills of tea, for checking email and DW and LJ and ravelry, and so on, and just for giving my arms an occasional rest. But much of the operational day was spent knitting, at what is for me a fairly decent committed pace.
Eight-and-something hours later, I have 20 more rows.
This extends the scarf length significantly, by about half again what it had been -- 8 border rows plus one 28-row repeat, so 36 rows, now 56 -- but it is a bit disappointing, for a 50-stitch-wide scarf. Only 20 rows? I couldn't even manage a full repeat? I probably need eight repeats for the proper length, and I have less than two?
...and /yes/, I know that knitting is not a speed sport. That eight hours spent knitting is eight hours knitting, regardless of how much finished project there is; that twenty rows of knitting is twenty rows knitting, regardless of how long it took to get there. And I also know that, given my physical restrictions, it's somewhat impressive that I can knit at all, never mind the speed.
All of that is, you know, logic, but it doesn't stop it from being frustrating as hell D:
(If this were just something I was doing for myself -- well, I'm not delusional, I still know I'd be comparing to other people, but -- it wouldn't matter so much. But this is for someone else, with a soft deadline of July 11th. Assuming 8 total repeats, that means I need six more repeats plus eight plus border, and that's, erm. 6*28+16 = 6*30+4 = 244? which, even if I could keep the pace of 20 rows per day, would take me 12 more days. And I probably can't keep that pace.)
(Sigh)
On the bright side, it's still an awesome pattern...
Thus, today was Knitting Day.
Not, of course, at maximum possible knitting speed, of the gun-to-head knit-or-die sort. I took breaks, for lunch, for necessary toilet stuff, for getting refills of tea, for checking email and DW and LJ and ravelry, and so on, and just for giving my arms an occasional rest. But much of the operational day was spent knitting, at what is for me a fairly decent committed pace.
Eight-and-something hours later, I have 20 more rows.
This extends the scarf length significantly, by about half again what it had been -- 8 border rows plus one 28-row repeat, so 36 rows, now 56 -- but it is a bit disappointing, for a 50-stitch-wide scarf. Only 20 rows? I couldn't even manage a full repeat? I probably need eight repeats for the proper length, and I have less than two?
...and /yes/, I know that knitting is not a speed sport. That eight hours spent knitting is eight hours knitting, regardless of how much finished project there is; that twenty rows of knitting is twenty rows knitting, regardless of how long it took to get there. And I also know that, given my physical restrictions, it's somewhat impressive that I can knit at all, never mind the speed.
All of that is, you know, logic, but it doesn't stop it from being frustrating as hell D:
(If this were just something I was doing for myself -- well, I'm not delusional, I still know I'd be comparing to other people, but -- it wouldn't matter so much. But this is for someone else, with a soft deadline of July 11th. Assuming 8 total repeats, that means I need six more repeats plus eight plus border, and that's, erm. 6*28+16 = 6*30+4 = 244? which, even if I could keep the pace of 20 rows per day, would take me 12 more days. And I probably can't keep that pace.)
(Sigh)
On the bright side, it's still an awesome pattern...