A new expletive has entered my vocabulary – “Oh, nupping hell!” When I got my shawl home yesterday, ready to purl back across the last row of the last repeat of chart2, I found I had a wrong stitch count. I tinked back all the way to the beginning of the repeat. It took all …
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Spinning Day
Spinning group is at M’s today. I can’t decide whether to take the car and my wheel or go on the bike as the day is fine – I’m inclined to knit anyway, as I am just two repeats from the end of chart 2 on the Swallowtail. Yes, 25% done already – 12 repeats …
More swallowtail
70 rows, 135 stitches; 9 repeats of chart 2 completed – overall, 12% done. I am about to pass the furthest point achieved thus far. I may put in another lifeline to celebrate 🙂 It occurs to me that we haven’t heard much of the Official Blog Puppy lately. This due, I am sure, to …
Inglorious twelfth
12th August and no dinner party to cook. Even after all these years.. how many? er… 25?!?!?!? I still feel the thrill of this freedom. Good grief. Really? Twenty-five years? Blimey. How things do stay in our psyche.Once a servant, always a servant – perhaps. Though I would like to think not so.
Swallowtail Progress
I am already past the point from which I frogged this morning and things already look much better. I have just put a lifeline in – in case of later memory lapses. I really could not bear to start this thing again. Why is it the simplest patterns that cause the most grief?
Wakey, wakey
Remember the Swallowtail Shawl? I woke it up this morning and began knitting on it again. There was something wrong. I took it back, thinking I had started on the wrong side when I began again. But that didn’t fix it. I tinked and I tinked and I tinked… …then I frogged. I think that …