E Fini!

Hi y'all! I'm back from my hiatus with a finished project! Sort of. Well, you'll see why. Anyway, I have been in kind of a funk lately, and not knitting much, but since finishing the Elfines (which are still waiting for a photo shoot) I had a deep desire (for an unknown reason really) to finish off another WIP I had started more than two months ago. Enter Evelyn Clark's Shetland Triangle Shawl from Wrap Style. I was so close to being finished that I just pushed on through. I was relying heavily on an ability to be able to guess when I needed to switch to the edge chart such that I would not run out of yarn. Essentially, magic. But, magically, it worked - I don't think I would have gotten another pattern repeat out of the skein! I'll post the specifics tomorrow, but I will say I used a different yarn, different needle size, and different number of pattern repeats. So there.











This is what happens when you get cocky and don't use lifelines, though it hardly would have mattered since I didn't spot it until after it was all spread out and stretched to within an inch of it's life. Luckily this is a sticky yarn, oh yes indeed. There are actually now three live stitches (I think), which I have rescued (I hope) and will re-attach tomorrow (with luck). Two dropped stitches on a single project, good grief.

In other goings-on, I have good news, which I have not jinxed by talking about too soon, and which I will write about soon! It means a big change, and a lot of stress the next few weeks. This, of course, does not mean that I have abandoned knitting. With the completion of Shetland Triangle I had only one other project on the needles, Absorba, the Rug, can you believe it? Since Absorba is not terribly portable I cast on for a sock right away, since the only yarn I have wound and ready to go is sock yarn. More on that tomorrow.

And don't dispair, people who are awaiting packages from me! Soon! Very soon! (Incidentally, did you know that postal rates went up? Again? My question is does this means we will get better service?

posted by Carrie @ 9:42 PM