5 rounds will do that.
The feathers grows taller and narrower,
the lacy fan between the feathers takes shape, too. What was just
hinted at a few days ago, is now emerging. The simple lace stripes
will be a open lacy crown to each feather tip. I was tempted—late
last night--to start round 223—but resisted—I know better than to
start to work on a patterned round when I am tired. I did a round
on my socks instead—more about them below.
Two full rounds, in a day is my current
goal—and I reached it. If I keep this up--with the end in sight—I
will be finished before the month is out. Plenty of time! (I still
have to knit a small swatch to practice the hand painting on—it
will—unless its a total disaster—become a lace cover to a clutch
for the wedding. But I am so happy to be coming to the end of the
knitting, and having this shawl done! Which is good, because I want
to knit something else—anything else!--I love this shawl—but its
been months that I have been knitting it!
I had a bit of an adventure in round
221—a stitch--one of the center decreases on a feather-- dropped.
And down it went for 5 rounds! 2 double increases undone! It was a
heart stopper—for a moment. But I recovered. It's a long way back
to the life line--(though the center of the feather would/could only
drop to be base of the eye). I will get 2 more rounds done
today--the patterned round in the day time, the plain, tonight.
Likely, I will skip work on Sunday—I
can't get two rounds AND the crossword puzzle done—and I want to
try to get the puzzle done. I got almost every cross done this
week—Last night I picked up the magazine to discard it—and one
last glance and the answer (a pun) came to me, and I just about did a
hand to forehead slap for not seeing it before now! Now its
done—save that 2 words are missing vowels—None seem to make
sense--or I don't understand the clue. Which is quite possible as
one is a sports reference—and I am not good at sports—and don't
always have the required vocabulary, either. But I don't mind—the
Sunday NYTimes puzzle isn't the hardest puzzle (though some think it
is) but I am happy when I get most of it done.
The socks are turning out to be very
plain ones—pretty yarn, and an attempt at a scalloped border at the
cast on edge(cuff) that didn't end up as nice as I had hoped. I
thought about a stitch pattern, but couldn't settle on any one I
really liked. Besides, the yarn is pretty busy—stocking knit is
just fine.
