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So…I just realized that I called my wonderful readers jerks last week!
I must really be stressed! You’re not jerks. (…most of you, anyway…) ;)
I’ve made some progress on the Daybreak shawl. I decided to make the large one, since I’ve got two full hanks of sock yarn to get through. I may just keep on going until I’m out of yarn. Which would make it an Extra Large? Each hank is close to 500 yards!
So far, I do like this pattern. It’s a lot of stockinette, which has been a really nice break. I’m not sure if I’ll finish the whole thing in one stretch, or if it will become my “go to” stockinette project in the middle of other things. It’s taking me a while to get this far…and I’m feeling a little Clapotis-y about it today. (When I knit that, I had to say, “Ok. I can knit 12 rows. I can get to that next dropped stitch. I can DO this.”) The end result of Clapotis is gorgeous, but it took some motivation to finish up. I guess we’ll see how next week goes, and that’ll determine the fate of Daybreak!
Yesterday, while waiting to hear about the “**Waivers and Objections” results on the house, I totally messed up the stripe pattern. You’re supposed to alternate two rows of each color, but I only did one row of pink. So I thought that I could make up for it by only working one row of green, but then the rows on which I had to do the increases were on the WS…so. I did 3 rows of green, one row of pink, and was back on track.
I’m not a ripper. Especially on a project like this, which is *supposed* to resemble something organic (the sun rising over a green field.) SO…my anxiety will be permanently recorded in this little piece of stockinette.
One concern I have is that my green is really similar in tone / intensity to the hot pink in my “sun”…so the slipped stitches don’t stand out as much as they might if I’d chosen a light pink and a dark green. The green is also loftier than the pink, so it has more body and kind of overpowers the slipped stitches in that way.
I like the ones that other people have made using black as one of the colors. BUT…I used what I had on hand in the studio. I didn’t even want to go out to the garage and look in my storage bins. SO…it is what it is. And it’ll be nice.
**Nathan asked me not to blog about the house any more until negotiations are done. I think it’s unlikely that the sellers have googled us and somehow found this blog…but…for the sake of his sanity and my marriage, I’ll concede. It’s hard, though!!