A Bluestocking Knits

To be honest, I’ve had the knitting doldrums for a while.  I like the Pi Shawl, am fairly happy with the Koigu (not as nice to knit with as Supersock, though not unpleasant, by any means), but — well, I’ve been busy with the start of school and all the little things that need to be done, with reading, sometimes with just sitting.  The join on the circular needles that I was using is a bit tetchy, and I got increasingly frustrated with having to stop and pull the stitches up to the needle-end, to the point where I put the whole thing right away for a while, convinced that there was only one thing that would make it go faster —