Sure, I can finish it. Absolutely. No problem. Who needs sleep?
After creating acres and acres of seed stitch, it was bind off time last night. But don’t get too excited. I’m now picking up 652 evenly spaced stitches all around the edge. Wait- that edging quickly gets transformed into a ruffle- so nearly 1000 stitches for 2 1/2 more inches before it is all said and done. I have until Saturday. Do you think they would notice at work if I called in sick so I could have another knit day? It looks like I’m going to be short several stitches when I get to the end of picking up, but I will utilize a little math problem (I did this for the keyhole top too) after picking up all the little nubs for the stitches I see how many I am short, then I figure out how to equally disperse that number into what I already have picked up so that I will do something like knit 10 make 1 (repeat) on the first row and voila- I’ll have all my stitches! Ok, so I suck at math, but somehow, when hard pressed, I can sound it out and come up with the solution. Once upon a time, I was good at math. I don’t know what happened, it is just sort of dormant skill now. It freaks my mom out that I round all my checks in my checkbook up to the nearest dollar for easy math on the go- so I never really know what my actual balance is, it is just sort of more than I think it is or something like that… gasp.
Back to the shawl, this is a 30th birthday present for my friend that just had a baby. I carefully selected something special that would be comforting to her- and washable (I’ve been knitting so much for baby I needed to do something definitively for momma.) I have no progress photos, because honestly, I don’t have the time to stop for one second and I can hardly stand to look at the thing. Also, I’ve volunteered to make her birthday cake (that’s how I roll) and decided to make this cake in the shape of a purse. I’m going to make hers look like that multicolored Louis Vuitton pattern using Starburst candies (Yes, I’m perfectly aware of how insane I am thankyouverymuch.) More about the cake later.
Acres and acres of seed stitch- what the hell was I thinking? The good thing about a brainless knit like this one is that you can 1. take it to SNB and chat away without worrying about screwing it up and 2. watch your favorite movie which just happens to be in French. (I LOVE Amelie. If you haven’t seen it, you must. I’m convinced if I watch it enough, I’ll learn how to speak french, no? Oui?)
On the topic of future knitting projects, I sat across from Vickie on Saturday as she made this. (covet, covet, covet.) I SO wanted to be working on my own Dimple Shale Scarf. As it turns out, I have some of the same yarn she was using (but in turquoise) in my stash. Whooppee! Free Pattern! Yarn from stash! Can’t wait to get started!
