When I’m not hobbling around in this foot-armour, I’m pedaling around on my knee scooter. Snazzy looking, isn’t it? I do wish it were as agile as it looks—the darned thing has the turning radius of a tortoise, I practically have to pick the thing up bodily to manouver it. Every morning after a day spent on this thing my back and shoulders ache as if I’ve been doing 10 hours of hard manual labor! But as I seem to have a stress fracture in my left metatarsal as well as a torn tendon in my left ankle, I’m supposed to stay off my left foot entirely.
This has put a bit of a
cramp in my real estate schedule, but I did actually manage to show three
houses to clients on Friday.
Naturally, the couple’s little five year old son spent
most of his time whizzing around on my scooter. He has a fetish for using my
realtor lockbox key, so I let HIM have the honor of stooping and
turning upside down to extract the key from the water pipe. I’ll never know why
listing agents take such a fiendish delight in securing the lockbox to a
completely inaccessible place, but this time I had a recruit who was just the
right height! Perhaps I’ll have to hire him out for the next month when I show
property, as heavens only knows how I would have reached that thing while
trapped in this massive boot without lying prone on the gravel!
Still, as long as I only have to move in a straight line, I can whizz along on my little scooter through a house I’m showing, hopefully not mowing down my clients in my path! I admit, I’m getting a little fond of Scott, as I’ve labeled my one-pedaled friend.
While I’m not resting
my back and shoulders from lugging him around, I’ve enjoyed knitting up this
white summer cardigan, another fun design by Kim Hargreaves. I knitted it using
Berocco’s Pure Pima, which I have rather mixed
feelings about. I don’t usually mind splitty yarns,
but the Pure Pima just had so many
teeny strands untwisting from each other every time the yarn moved at all, that
I found it almost impossible to keep them all in check. There are a few places
in the garment where I missed one of the tiny strands, so it sticks out from
the knitted body of the sweater like a snag. Over all, though, it did create a
smooth, lustrous fabric with a sheen that does capture the brilliance of the
summer sun.
In fact, the cotton is
so smooth and glossy it actually seems to repel the bits of leaf, hair and other
fuzz that usually attach themselves to my wool sweaters like glue. The yarn is
so slippery, in fact, that I took extra care to pierce through the strands
every time I sewed my threads in on the back side, but I still have the uneasy
feeling that they may pop through again.
I’m not sure that a
white cotton cardigan with a handkerchief hem is the most versatile garment
I’ve ever made, but I was a little tired of being a practical girl and knitting
only classic designs I’d be able to wear for years on end. It’s kind of fun to
be “trendy” now and again, and as long as I’ll be pedaling around for the next
few months, I might as well scoot in fashion!