Yopping Update #47 - More decisions and ONE WIP

My goodness, we are getting down to the wire with this year's Yopping (Year of Projects).  As usual their will be many little knits not knit (all my advent plans), but also, as usual, I have created many things that were not planned.

As of this moment I have....drum roll please....only one WIP!  I will get to the details of that ONE WIP in a moment.

This past week, thanks to Portuguese knitting (for purl) and Continental knitting (for knit) I finished all my remaining squares on my Hearts and Diamonds KAL from the Simply Knitting Magazine.

so now my guest bed looks like this

I keep going into the room and looking at the arrangement and switching things around - I am almost happy with it, and once I am I will start sewing it together.

Back to my ONLY WIP...

I picked up the Fisherwoman's sweater, and it took me a while to remember where I was with it, but I finished the first pattern repeat (16 rows) last night.  I can knit about 4 rows an evening before my arm gives out.  The wrong side rows are just knit the knit stitches and purl the purl stitches so that is mindless, but the right side row involve 6 charts - all with cables - and the charts aren't all the same number of rows so I had to get organized with coloured markers and lots of magnetic bars to keep my place on each chart.

Yesterday was my one year birthday with CoDA and I got my one year coin:

On a sad note my dear brother-in-law's boat was destroyed by fire on Friday evening. We had all put our hand-prints on it in memorium to him.  The police are investigating, but it looks like a beach party fire that went awry.  So very sad.  I can hear him from the great beyond harumphing about the senseless damage done by thoughtless persons.

My arm is up and down - sleeping is still tenuous and I think I overdid the pool exercises last Wednesday so I am playing overly cautious since then.

I made some notes to share at the CoDA meeting and I will leave you this week with a poem I read to the group

Meditation for Courage by Rudolf Steiner

We must eradicate from the soul
all fear and terror
of what comes towards us from the future;

We must look forward
with absolute equanimity to whatever comes,
and we must think only
that whatever comes is given us
by a world direction full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn during this age,
namely to act out of pure trust
in the ever present help of the spiritual world;
truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us.

Therefore let us discipline our will,
and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves,
every morning and every evening.

Peace

Yopping Update #46 - Thought process

I took the advice of Yarnma from last week's comment and from the pictures of JustMagicMaria's blanket and I crocheted around each of the squares with a row of hdc (half double crochet) and then joined them together using Rachele Carmona's Flat Braid Join with only one chain on her Youtube channel.

So I went from this:
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to this:

I didn't like how the pink was arranged

but now I see the light green is all bunched up

hmm  I needed to flip the square middle left

Now the pink needs adjusting again

Nope, that isn't right either

so I flipped all the bottom squares, but something was still off

So let's swap square 5 and 8

And that is how I finally was ready to join them together.  As I was arranging them I realized that to me the squares all look like different landscapes or seascapes.  Sunrises and sunsets, sky and land and water.  

I did a final row of hdc in dark pink before blocking. 

It didn't seem quite finished once blocked so with some advice from my quilting friend we decided I should add another border in purple and she suggested the shell stitch.  I had enough purple left over so I went for it.  

Done - TaDa  

Then....

Remember the annoying nagging monkey - well, this happened:

I made him a friend

Chilling on the piano

And then because I can't leave well enough alone I decided I could knit some more squares for my Heart's Desire Blanket using the portuguese knitting technique.  

background is red, heart is pink and white

Intarsia

fairisle square

I overdid the knitting thing though because my arm was super sore last night, lesson learned (ya, right), no really, lesson learned.   

I will only knit 1/2 square tonight, and see how that goes.  

Generally speaking I think my arm is s l o w l y improving - I see the physio again on Tuesday.  

So that's it for me - some progress.  Plus I blocked a few more of my KAL squares which had been sitting there mocking me - so I am currently at 30 squares out of the 36 and they are all blocked now.  

It is a long weekend here, and we have had company, - today we are going out for lunch and dinner (my husband had his 71st birthday on Friday and we have been celebrating ALL weekend (and by celebrating I mean eating - lol), but I will try to get to the pool this afternoon regardless.  

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