Weekday routine

Monday and Tuesday nights are for spinning. Don't know why, I just picked those two days and set them aside for some wheel time. Of course nothing happens until 8 pm when it's someone bedtime. It's not that I couldn't do spinning or knitting while Bailey is up but she's usually wanting to be in someone's lap watching Spongebob Squarepants and changes laps during the commercial breaks. Since getting my spinning wheel I have put more time at night into spinning than knitting but last night I put that aside, turned on Doctor Who and started working on the Fetching gloves that I am making for my friend Cathy.
Recently I discovered a mistake. A mistake that made me rip out about 3 inches of work to redo again. Something about this pattern has not only given me some issues but to Carey as well. Carey who is a spinning/knitting master ninja also had and is having again the same issue as am I. The right glove comes out great but something changes when you do the left glove. It's hard to understand why if you are just making the glove again but changing the slant on the cable there would be a noticeable change. Carey's theory is that when we are knitting we are pulling tighter on the cable in one direction than we do when we change directions. My theory is that it is an optical illusion created by an evil magician who happens to be a gnome. Did I have to rip out 3 inches of work? Unfortunately yes, I did. Even though the evil gnome magician is doing a great job in creating frustration for us, I was off on my rows and it needed to be fix so that it would look somewhat right. The left glove still looks shorter in the cable rows but at least I know that my rows are at the correct number.
Since there will be plenty of yarn left over from the gloves, I've decided to also knit another gift for Cathy out of this yarn. I've chosen the Prettybird Neckwarmer pattern since I don't think there will be enough leftover for a scarf but this will help out on those cold days for Cathy. This next project will be Carey and I new knit along, as soon as we get the current projects done first. That's if we can wait, I found my size 4 needles and have them in the traveling project bag right now just waiting to start up the neckwarmer.