I just have been starting, and starting
but not finishing...The baby sweaters are still missing sleeves. The
egg head hats still are missing their devils horns.
There is a shawl has been in progress
for a few weeks, (and it's crying out to be finished!) and a silk
scarf has been started....(more on that tomorrow or Thursday—tomorrow
is a busy day, and I might not get anything posted)
And suddenly, all those project bags
with socks kits in them are looking so attractive! I am jonesing to
knit a pair of socks.. and I got it bad.
So I decided to, at least, come clean
about what I am really doing. Well-- I am doing some cleaning and
reorganizing—(and this doesn't really help—since it often leads
to distractions—stash yarn remind me of things I planned to knit..
(like pink shell in sock yarn, and matching cardigan in some alpaca—I
love my leafy green shell and want another one—In pink, in blue, (I
don't have blue yarn) in brown, (again—no yarn, just a dream)
And I have been busy socializing—My
DD and new granddaughters for one, sibling for two, a knitting group
that fell apart when most of the members experienced some health
related problems...
A broken right arm (on a righty) plays
serious havoc with knitting. And a frozen shoulder on another group
member doesn't help her knitting —any more than ambulatory issues
on a third is any help in having her join us--especially when this
winter has been one of snow and ice! I had my own set back with the
lose of my knitting mojo, which is slowly coming back--but the other
issues are getting resolved.. Collectively we are all better, and
getting together monthly, if not weekly.
So here is MOST of a shawl--(only 6
(maybe 7) pattern repeats left to go.. (but each pattern repeat is
24 rows!)--it's Red Hearts Unforgettable (a single ply acrylic from
the Boutique collections). The good news is there is are 12
decreases in every pattern repeat, so the row get shorter (and easier
to work)--the bad news is there are still a lot of rows to go!
The pattern is a series of welt, (3 rows of stockingknit, 3 rows of reverse stockingknit) and every 4th welt has a little bit of lace.
I like how the stripes and the color
effects change.. at first, I could just knit a row or two before the
color changed—and the effect was not so much a stripe as it was a
tweed. Now I can get 4 to 5 rows before a color change—so the
appearance changes (and by the end when there are even few stitches,
the stripes will be bigger still!)
The diagonal edge will have a welt or
two added to finish the shawl.
