Oh, b*ll*cks!

So, today is Shawl KAL cast-on day. I worked like fury last night to try to clear the Red Emperor and have one less WIP cluttering the place up. I had five 16 row repeats to do and I got almost all of the way there. I finished the last five rows this morning and …

Disaster!

A tale of woe regarding an expensive and now apparently ill-advised purchase of hardwood DPNs:

“I heard something.

A tiny something.

A tiny but unmistakable something.

I heard…

…a snap!

I looked down and there, in my left hand, dangled two severed ends of my very expensive and much-loved DPN… “