My goodness, has it really been that long since I posted? Ack!
The Bell/Lambert knitting week back in March was a huge success from my point of view. Much knitting, much chatting, how great it was to see Kate again. Now she has a new home, and I am hoping to reciprocate the visit in the fall, if finances allow.
On the knitting front, I have three projects going.
One is the traveling project, a pair of sox in a grey and blue self-striping yarn. Knitted top down (unusual for me) because I wanted to try an edging at the top. Now I'm ready to turn the heels. Tried to do the first one at knitting group yesterday, but we had so much fun talking and laughing that I totally mangled it. Time to frog and try again in the quiet of my own home.
The second is the pie are square shawl in brown-toned Moonlight Mohair. STILL binding it off, using a picot edging and putting a bead in each picot. I figured in my head how many stitches the bottom edge should have and threaded the appropriate number of beads onto the yarn, but now I realize I only calculated the stitches in the circular part. I forgot about the triangular front parts. I am running out of beads on the yarn, and I have a lot of shawl left to bind off! I have more beads, but it means I either have to undo the rest of the skein and thread them on from the other end, or I have to break the thread and figure out later how to work in the ends so that they don't come loose and hang down at the edge of the shawl. Bleh. On top of that, as more and more of it comes off the needles I am able to try it on a little, and I'm not sure the proportions have turned out so well. However, the other EZ patterns have worked well for me, so I'm willing to suspend disbelief until it's all off the needles. If I don't like it in the end, it's going to be very sad, because I imagine that frogging 16 skeins of mohair blend yarn is going to be HARD!
The third project, and the one that comforts me right now, is the second baby blanket of the twin set. The purple one turned out very well, now I'm doing a green one to match. So I know the pattern by heart, I know it's going to turn out well, I can just sit and knit and be happy with this one. Thank goodness.
Okay, lunchtime is over, so it's back to work for me. Thank you, faithful readers!
