Too early for cheating

So, as anyone who knows me well enough may have guessed, there’s no possible way I could achieve April goal #3 without sneaking a new project in at the very end of March.

What? I wasn’t exactly going to sit and twiddle my thumbs when I was sick, and a new project is about all the excitement you can get while bumming around the house. (If you live alone and have quiet neighbors, that is…)

I started Pomatomus last Friday.

This is actually the second attempt at the leg.

I’d completed one and a half repeats for the leg over the weekend. (The pattern calls for three, but given my row gauge and how short my legs are, I could practically get knee socks out of that many repeats. And I don’t like knee socks.) I’d also gotten the heel and gusset done.

But I couldn’t quite suss out how to do the foot. Maybe it was the cold meds, maybe not, but in either case, I didn’t know what to do with Chart B. I mean, I couldn’t just start with row 12, because the chart doesn’t work that way.

So after several attempts I gave up. That’s when I ripped back to the ribbing and decided that I would start the leg on row 11 of Chart A, rather than at the beginning. That way, I could just start the foot with row 1 of the second chart.

I’m happy with it so far. I normally find that variegated yarns obscure stitch patterns, but I think the color distribution actually works pretty well here.