OK - I have three of the last four socks on needles! One pair will go quickly as it's a pair of Manos del Uruguay knee socks on size five needles. The other two are fingering weight knee socks with 24 and 30 rounds of pattern, respectively. I work and work on them and seem to make very little headway.
Most of the patterns are completed and off to the tech editor and the charts have been sent to her too.
Surely, I am nearly done. Introductions are being edited as is the techniques chapter. All I have left is the book introduction and a page of acknowledgements and credits to the yarn companies who provided the yarn.
I'm hoping I'll be finished in time for the pre-season football games so I can relax and enjoy them!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Deadline looming
I know it's been a long time since I posted but all I have been doing is knitting socks and more socks. A couple of weeks ago, I shipped off a box with seventeen pairs of socks to my editor and another box with seven more pairs is going today. I have twelve more socks to knit for the book and have five of them on the needles right now.
Unfortunately, two pair that have to be done are very fine fingering weight yarn and I have to make knee socks! My eyes are giving me fits these days from staring at the tiny stitches. I believe one of the patterns has 32 different rows and one has 24. I have what was "stable" macular degeneration but I'm suspicious that it has become unstable at this point. I'm seeing the eye doctor next week.
I received yarn for two more pairs this week and both yarns are heavy worsted weight. Apparently, my editor feels that people don't want to just knit socks in fingering and sport weights. I believe that at least five of the thirty-two patterns will be worsted or heavier at this point.
My original dealine to have everything done was August 1 but since it is the editor holding things up by adding patterns and changing yarns, it is being moved. I have three editors at this point - one who edits text, one who edits patterns and my primary editor who oversees it all. I sure hope that this book will be a success as it's really been a lot more work than I expected.
Unfortunately, two pair that have to be done are very fine fingering weight yarn and I have to make knee socks! My eyes are giving me fits these days from staring at the tiny stitches. I believe one of the patterns has 32 different rows and one has 24. I have what was "stable" macular degeneration but I'm suspicious that it has become unstable at this point. I'm seeing the eye doctor next week.
I received yarn for two more pairs this week and both yarns are heavy worsted weight. Apparently, my editor feels that people don't want to just knit socks in fingering and sport weights. I believe that at least five of the thirty-two patterns will be worsted or heavier at this point.
My original dealine to have everything done was August 1 but since it is the editor holding things up by adding patterns and changing yarns, it is being moved. I have three editors at this point - one who edits text, one who edits patterns and my primary editor who oversees it all. I sure hope that this book will be a success as it's really been a lot more work than I expected.
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