Spent most of the time since last weekend busy with Lord of the Rings Online related stuff; trying to get my characters into the transfer queue, waiting for them to actually transfers, hanging out on the forums chatting with other players in the same situation. Did a bit of gaming and crochet around that. Apart from that:
Mar 9 - Made tuna pesto pasta for supper.
Mar 10 - Fried some pork chops, which I served with potatoes, squash, and peas.
Mar 11 - Just me for supper. Made barley soup using some lamb stock from the freezer along with meatballs for protein.
Mar 12 - Made a vat of chili, ate some of it for supper; just me, so I didn't bother doing rice or anything.
Mar 13 - Ran the vacuum. Since it was just me for supper yesterday I served chili and rice tonight, since it saved me from cooking something else (and I don't mind chili two days in a row).
Hoodie is coming along well; the revised sleeve worked out much better:
At first I was just putting in a red stitch marker every 10 rows to keep track of length, but I kept losing track of where I was in the sets-of-three-rows I was using to figure out where to do decreases; I tried to count the existing rows and put in additional stitch markers, but that kept working out wrong since they weren't going in at quite the same places in the stitch order. So, yes, I frogged most of the stupid thing again and then very carefully inserted a stitch marker every third row (in addition to still doing a red one every 10) and I finally managed to finish the damn sleeve (after working on it since Feb 24!). It's using a combination of a decrease on every 1-of-3, decreases on 1-and-2-of-3, then back to 1-of-3, plus a non-decreasing section at both start and end. The fit is just so much better now, and it definitely used a lot less yarn than the previous attempt.
For working the other sleeve I figure I'll continue doing the stitch markers every three (but not bother with the red ones at 10s), and match the colours of the stitch markers as I progress so it's easy to see at a glance where I am compared to the first sleeve. This should go considerably faster now that I have one done and know (more or less) what I'm doing.
