After the Great Pre-Move Clean-Up, I still can't find a lot of things. I have a little notebook with patterns I've engineered or re-engineered, and it's disappeared into the void. I'd like to find it, because I reworked EZ's Maltese fisherman's hat to, among other things, include a buttonhole, and although I could figure it out again, I don't really want to.
And I still can't find the needles I'd need to make this either. Where in the world could 8mm dpns disappear to?
But in the midst of organizing, I set aside a number of abandoned projects that I thought were worth finishing. One of these was a sweater from Knitters magazine, which I'd set aside because I couldn't find the last two balls of Rowan Felted Tweed I *knew* I had.
I found them in the clean-up, and it's turned out to be a good project. Most of the challenging stuff (and there wasn't much) is already done. I did find a HOLE in one of the pieces. No idea where it came from. This has got me a bit nervous, because I have had an invasion, which I thought I'd dealt with. I'm hoping I just cut it accidently.
Really.
But I decided that since it was in the right front shoulder, and in pattern, that a repair job just wouldn't do. I ripped back, and reknit. It wasn't bad, only fourteen rows, and it was fairly easy to figure out the pattern to finish it off.
I did the neck border yesterday -- I was still a bit concerned about the amount of yarn (this is one of my peeves with Knitters, the patterns either call for far too much or far too little yarn. I had exactly the amount called for, and it's going to be a very near thing in the end...), so figured I could live with 3/4 sleeves if I had to. Fashion Statement and all that.
One sleeve was partway knit -- I started the second one, and as I worked on it, managed to figure out where I was with the first one (yes, of course, all notes have disappeared). I'm back to working on the first sleeve, and when I get them both to the same point, I'll see if I have enough yarn to make the sleeves longer.
I've been Very Ill with a cold and laryngitis this past week, so no pictures until I finish. Hopefully in the next couple of days, and, fingers crossed, after this cold disappears. Please? I don't have time to be sick right now...
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