I've had strawberries on my mind a lot lately. Just today I took my first trip to Trader Joe's (OMG so sad I never went before! It's like taking a Hawaiian vacation that turned into a grocery store) and I picked up a lovely pack of freeze dried strawberries. They are SO yummy. I also got some frozen Creme Brulée, but that's another story.

So I had that pretty pink and green Hempathy sitting around and none of my original ideas of what i wanted to knit with it worked out (swatches turned out so nasty). Then inspiration struck, all because I knit that tank last week. It gave me some different ideas and I sucked it up and cast on. I had some issues, and had to tink about 400 stitches when I knit 4 rows of 100 stitches in stockinette when I meant to knit it in garter, and that was down a ways and I totally didn't want to rip hempahty, in the round, on 2's. So I tinked those stitches and dropped each one down on it's own individually.

It very much reminds of of a recent Yarn Harlot blog entry. Déjà vu. Totally.

Here are my little drawings, several of which are wrong and I was oblivious to the armholes being located at the same space as the neckline. Um, hello? That little center/top one was where I was like, "oh huh, I should probably draw that part properly".

Then there are the times I explain to the husbeast what I am doing and show him my progress, and while explaining suddenly realized I didn't cast on properly or forgot to switch colors or because I wanted the center to be 35 stitches, I forgot I had to start with 70 to GET to 35 before I k2tog all the way across. I was wondering why it looked so small but yet somehow ignored that fact until I had to actually explain it to someone.

But the end result is worth it.

So far so good, though I am having second thoughts on a few things that might need tweaking. Today I actually got out to knitting group and Amanda said it reminded her of strawberries, which totally made me smile.