With Lilli Pilli done (and not blocked, tsk tsk), I’ve started Rowe back up again. Tuesday Queuesday for Rowe here.
I’m being a bit of a brat on Ravelry with Rowe. I haven’t officially put in my start date, though I will, in time. Instead I’m keeping track of the number of “days” I’ve worked on it. Every “day” is ~8 hours (working on it solely during the workday) and I’m counting any time in which it’s actively on my desk to be knit as time knitting on it. For instance, right now is counting as active knitting time on it, because unfortunately there isn’t a really awesome device that will count any time you are actually knitting. Boo.
The reason for this is that I don’t want this project to be one of those start-date to end-date super long projects, and to think it took all that time to do it. I want to really know how much time was spent on it. And that really should include time that I randomly just go and spend on Ravelry instead of knitting. But not time that I am at home and it’s a half-mile away at work. You get me?
Anyways I’m at 40 hours of active knitting and I’ve got 40 rows left of the Left Front to do. Chugging along nicely, if I do say so myself.
I wish I kept better track of the time spent on each of my projects. Have you ever tried the knit companion app? It (supposedly) tracks the time that the app is open on each project (pattern), so you could consider knitting time equivalent to the amount of time that the pattern’s active. However, if you’re working on a project that doesn’t require you to reference the pattern all that often, this obviously wouldn’t be that accurate. I say supposedly because while I use the app I haven’t made use of this feature. I’m currently working on a colorwork sock that does require me to use the pattern. So it will be interesting to track the time used for this particular pattern.
That sounds like it could be cool. I don’t use my phone/tablet for patterns though so it probably wouldn’t be very helpful for me.
It’s gotten to the point on Rowe already that I barely even glance at the chart. I use KP’s magnetic chartkeeper, and for the first repeat or so I was actually moving the magnet along per RS row. Now I just have it up there and look over to confirm that I’m doing the right things 🙂
Since I only work on it at work, I’m just trying to keep track of when I first take it out, and when I stop for the day. I switched over to hours this time because I ran out of yarn yesterday and therefore had to stop early in the “day”.