I finished it last night. It is washed and wine-free and ready to be a belated birthday present.
Overall, I hated, hated, hated this knit. It was too basic a pattern, too big of an amoeba shape, too many stitches to pick up and whine, whine, whine. Although I like the results, something slightly more challenging, a style a tad more refined, would have made it all the better to knit. I am so sick of this color I could scream.
(And not spilling wine all over it, me, and the couch would have been good too.)
I cast on a Dimple Shale Scarf last night, only 4 rows to repeat across 53 stitches- I’m in heaven. I learned how to do a cabled cast on- very snazzy new neat-o skill. The lace might be a hair too complicated to memorize completely, but ask me again half way through if it can be done. Compared to the shawl from hell, it is moving along rather swiftly so far and I’m glad to be making something SMALL for a change. Very satisfying. And the color is very pretty- for Jane (Jeff’s Momma). I have neglected to mention the yarn on purpose. I almost didn’t do so because of my own self-admitted fiber snobbery at times. It is Red Heart- gasp. (Luster Sheen or something like that.) Now, I normally would break into hives admitting to the universe that I am enjoying such a basic yarn, but it has such a nice sheen, drape and stitch definition for this particular pattern, I’ve decided you don’t always have to use saxxxy fibers to get lovely results. Or at least, not on a scarf anyways. Or at least, not on this scarf. Anyhoo. Ciao.
