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 …
I must not cast on, I must not…
What with the size 30 cotton and the two latest Colourmart yarns, it is very difficult to keep off the pattern search. I am dying to cast on something horribly complicated and l a r g e ... and totally impressive. But I must not. I have an attack list and I must stick to …
Slowly…
My long 2mm DPNs arrived today and I transferred the doyley onto them and then managed a couple of rounds of knitting. 44 rows completed and 13.22% done. Can you tell what it is yet? The long needles are very unwieldy. They will take some getting used to. Also in today's post: a large ball …