Archive for May, 2007

Pre-Summer Knitting Contest!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Head on over to Skeins Her Way for a seriously cool knitting contest! My summer knitting: Finish the Shetland Tea Shawl Do the Harlot’s Snowdrop Shawl in white Finish the 2 pairs of socks on the needles Maybe be lucky enough to knit the Fitted Tank in Blue Sky Cotton Mediterranean?????? Powered by Qumana

The shawl continues to grow…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

7 edging repeats done, 108 more to go. It is going pretty quickly now – the last 2 were a breeze.  I did have to tink the 3rd and 4th, though – and it’s really slow going to unknit, worse than the main part of the shawl. I hated to put it down for the [...]

School picture day…

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Senior pictures were taken at The Boy’s school yesterday - Jacket and tie were required for the guys. From his reaction, you would think that The Boy would have preferred having all his teeth pulled out with rusty pliers.  I finally convinced him I’d drive him to school so he didn’t have to ride the bus [...]

WOOOHOOO!

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I finished the main part of the shawl!  I love the way it looks, it’ll look even better when it’s blocked. But, the edging!  What a headache.  After several starts & rip backs, I’ve done 2 repeats and it looks right.  Finally.  I can’t complain about the way the pattern is written, but, what the [...]