Rats!

I had knit night tonight.... I really enjoyed chatting on the big comfy couch that our local library has seen fit to put in our knitting room. I was late getting there and so I entered the room where we have always had arm chairs, and low and behold two big comfy couches where the old arm chairs used to be.... cool!

My goal at knit night is to do one finger a night until I have finished these blasted lace gloves that seem to have been on my needles since Plato picked his nose. With glee, I finished the finger I was working on and started on the thumb. You would think that it would be easy to knit a thumb on a lace glove.... but I started knitting and soon realized that this is not so. The thumb that I knit tonight looks like a thumb for a pigmy while the thumb on the other glove looks like the thumb for a neanderthal. Clearly something is not right. I tried on the glove that I knit first, the one with the neanderthal thumb, and the thumb fits fine.... this is not to imply that I have neanderthal thumbs, however,.... I think that the glove with the pigmy thumb has such a small thumb that it just makes the other thumb look like a neanderthal thumb (did neanderthals even have thumbs?). So I raveled back the pigmy thumb and started again... finally I checked my progress after a number of rows, and it's not as pigmy sized as before but it is still quite pigmy sized.... so clearly I will have to ravel back the semi-pigmy thumb again and knit it once again to try and get a thumb equivalent to the neanderthal thumb... maybe then the two thumbs will look normal. Too bad they are not for me because I could have dispensed with the thumb altogether since I am neither neanderthal, pigmy (ha, not likely) nor normal. Relatively speaking, lace gloves should not be for neanderthals, pigmys or anything even remotely near the two. (and I am not discriminating against pigmys or neanderthals).

Next Thursday, once again I will take back the thumb and knit again. Just when you think you are making progress.... Rats!