Over the weekend I finished up the main blanket, creating a neat square from all the trapezoids and triangles. I’d used up every scrap of rainbow yarn (and had to patch in some blue and orange to fill out the last rainbow shapes) and weighed out the remaining orange and… Read More »Well the knitting part is done
I consider myself to be pretty lucky with my kitty. While she will totally go after a piece of yarn dangled in her face, and knitting needles left poking out of a project are awfully tempting for a chew, she mostly ignores my yarn. I can safely leave a ball,… Read More »She knows I like yarn
I finished it. It’s completely cast off, and bigger than I fully realized. It covers more than half of our queen sized bed. I still need to figure out how to block it – I might just have to hold it under the shower… For some context, everything circled in… Read More »Holy Sheep It’s Done!
The blanket it coming along. After a really slow beginning of the week, I’ve now just about caught up to where I need to be. It took me through Thursday to finish both sides of the next stranded colorwork sections: I really needed that done by Tuesday to be on… Read More »Just might get there…
I have stuck to my plan to knit only on the blanket when at home. In the past 8 days I have complete over 90 rows and about 10 inches. On Tuesday I declared with triumph that I was officially half way done the blanket. TheEnabler looked at my, laughed… Read More »I have been good….
Wednesday afternoon I headed for the airport to travel home. It was a crazy realization that “home” meant leaving the US and that I really did feel like I was going home. A first for this trip – I took all of my originally scheduled flights. So of the eight different planes… Read More »Back home and goal setting
