Getting ready for tomorrow’s KAL cast on.
Poppy Progress: 03/09 Needle Swatch Trauma
Getting ready for tomorrow’s KAL cast on.
Monthly archives: September 2009
Today
Today: I am feeling very strange, after a night of horrible nightmares – the kind where you really do not want to go back to sleep, for fear that they will manifest again. Today: I am rather shaky, and very tired, with a migraine after yesterday’s spinning group (nine (!) women in my sitting room …
KAL Shawl(s)
I’m going “Baa!” this Friday, as I signed up to join the UK-RAK Shawl KAL. My chosen pattern is an Evelyn Clark shawl, Icelandic Poppy, and I expect it to be a huge relief (indulgence) after so much garter stitch in recent weeks. I shall be making it in Kelpie, a cashmere laceweight yarn from …
There and (almost) Baktus
Don’t ask me where/when/how it went wrong. It shouldn’t have. But it did. I weighed it regularly. It became a religion almost. I even built in 2 grams leeway for safety. But I still ran out. I could reknit. Or I could unravel the start until it is the same width as the end. Or …