Year of Projects #8 - Finished!

 

Really there are no words to say how pleased I am with this finished shawl.  So I will let the picture do the talking. 

See you next week as the ongoing 54 Pickup is, well, picked up again....and there may also be a Jemima Puddleduck too. 

Year of Projects Update #7 - StEEKing

 

Well, yes, I did lose at yarn chicken so last week I headed over town to pick up two more balls of yarn.  

On Friday I crocheted on either side of the steeking area following some YouTuber.  It seemed straight forward enough. 

Ready to cut...

Reading to pick up a gazillion stitches. 

and then I had to pick up 278 stitches on each side of the triangle and then knit across the 383 stitches along the top.  Yup, 939 stitches per round.  AND...I had to increase every round for the 13 rounds of the  front border. So now I was at about 1050 stitches. Once those 13 rows were complete I added two rows of the contrast colour and now currently I am decreasing every round. Once I finish the border I will fold the border in half and sew it to the back side of the shawl hiding the steeked edges. 

My steeking definitely had some wonky areas but I was able to catch where the yarn wanted to unravel and tie off any offending mis-steeks.  See what I did there?

Border about 17 of 26 rows

I should be done this week.  Then I can get back to my 54 Card Pickup. 

I did score a wonderful kit of 25gm balls of every colour imaginable at Value Village.  I think this will be excellent for small gnomes and other soft toys. 

Hope everyone else is making progress on their projects. 

And now back to my never-ending rounds of border!

Year of Projects Update #6 - Yarn Chicken?

 

I am on line 36 of 43 and I am hoping my yarn makes it....stay tuned for next weeks update.  (and I thought the steeking of this shawl was going to be the exciting part) 

I am on the 2nd row of cards on my 54 pickup.  It is exciting to see it coming to life:

This week I need to cast on something simpler for TV binging.  (didn't I say that last week?) It is very hot here at the moment so working on the blanket or the shawl is too much in this heat. 

That's it for this week's late update - Now I will go check on what the other Yoppers are doing.  

Year of Projects Update #5 - Overflowing Sock Drawer

 

SuperSock World Championship is in the Finale Lap, and will be wrapping up later this month.  I looked at all the socks I knit since it started May 1st.  

That is fifteen socks total.  Don't worry the lonely pink sock at the bottom has a mate, but I knit it before SWC started.  And yes, my sock drawer is stuffed to the gills, and I really have to do something about that....not. 

In other news I finished the second repeat on my Wildernesse shawl.  I decided to have purple trees against a snowy sky as the first repeat was snowy trees against a purple sky....not sure what the third repeat will be....stay tuned. 

I added a few more rows to my 54 pickup.  Slow going what with six charts, three colours and doubleknitting which means k1, p1 all the way across.  Then I double check the pattern and go back to fix any errors as they arise....and they do arise.

It was our anniversary last Wednesday, and we both were able to stop coughing long enough to enjoy a movie - Formula 1.  Loved it.  Surprising to both of us how much we enjoy following the Formula 1 races ever since we watched the Netflix series: Drive to Survive.  In fact this morning while having our coffee we watched the highlights of the Hungarian race.  

So there is my week.  Knitting, Coughing, Knitting, Reading, Knitting, Studying, Knitting, Binge watching two seasons of Nurses, and, of course Knitting. And more Coughing. 

Oh, and here is a picture of my sock drawer:

And here is the just married, and then forty eight years later photos:

Until next week dear readers.  I think I might cast on a sock for my hubby.  He is so appreciative, and knitting socks for his large hobbit feet is easy TV knitting, and I still have four episodes to go on season 5 - 24.  How will Jack Bauer save the day this time?