Wisp Scarf FO

Pattern: Wisp by Cheryl Niamath

Source: Knitty Summer 2007

Yarn: 1 Ball Garnstudio DROPS Vivaldi

Colour: #19 (Discontinued)
Size: Smaller version (17 repeats of pattern until yarn ran out)
Needle: 5mm Bamboo Circular

Start: January 15 Finish: February 5, 2012

Modifcations: Omitted Button Holes and Buttons

I don't remember knitting this scarf. I remember after casting on, taking it to a craft group meeting where there's a good chance I just sat there with it in my hands while I talked and never knit a stitch That's about it for memories on this one beyond remembering vividly the first time I saw the pattern on Knitty I utterly hated it based on the modeled photos with the pattern.

I don't know how I came around to deciding to knit it but I was pleasantly surprised to find it in the pile of un-posted FO's the other day. 'Feels more like a gift than something I made

Ravelry tells me I started this a couple of weeks after Mom's funeral so I must have found it a soothing, mindless thing to work on. As the above photo shows it has an easy self-evident pattern repeat and the light majority-mohair yarn has good body to it with a surprisingly soft feel. The photo above says it all.

• A nice "gift" from me to me! I like it.
• I like the colour - evocative of spring to which the size of the scarf is well suited.
• It seems to have blocked out quite nicely.
• The single ball of yarn was from a DKC yarn giveaway so the price was right! That also explains why there's no reference for this colourway on line. Its discontinued.
• I've never worn this scarf except to take pictures of it the other day but I bet it'll be surprisingly warm and I'll get lots  of springtime wear out of it!

Okay enough of this disturbingly recall-free post! Tomorrow 2012 FO's #3&4 - a couple of go-together knits I do remember making.

'Hope to "see" you then! Thanks for dropping by!

Knitting?

Why yes, in fact I have been knitting!

Most satisfyingly on this...

..."Wisp" by Cheryl Niamath from Knitty . To be honest, I was never attracted to the pattern on Knitty but I kept trying to "Favourite" the thing on Ravelry when browsing patterns there.

I'm frequently finding I see patterns knit up or on Ravelry that come from Knitty and I can't believe how much more appealing they are to me than the pattern photos on the site.  I should probably slow down a bit, and look through Knitty the way I look at Ravelry patterns!

The work on Mom's estate is proceeding (If you care how your loved ones will fare following your passing, get organized! Thank goodness Mom's stuff is in order because its still a huge job to distribute the pieces of life well lived.)

One of the jobs I've undertaken is to organize and sort the mass of 120 years of photos and newspaper articles related to the family she, as the eldest in her family had in her possession.  I did a bunch of work to create a lengthy slide show about her that we had playing at the wake and at the post-funeral reception but since she was not the only member of her family, that piece is but the tip of the ice berg. Nonetheless I've now broken the back of the task in terms of organizing and sorting and I'm ready to start scanning and rebuilding the crumbling albums.

After the work of the day on matters related to the estate as well as trying to catch up with things in my own life (currently groceries are in very short supply in this place!) I need something mindless and calm to work on in the evenings. Wisp seems to be fitting the bill just perfectly.

As an added "bonus", Number One Son thinks Wisp looks "Sick!" ( in the current vernacular of kids in their late teens that's apparently high praise!) His view of the item below is not "Sick!" just "sick". As in "what were you thinking Mom?"

Well, I was thinking I'd like to reuse some yarn and so I did and before starting Wisp late last week I was very much enjoying working on EZ's  Last Minute December Sweater. Its ready for finishing the currently rolling hems with contrasting yarn which will hopefully give the piece more structure and finish (and shrink the thing 4 or 5 sizes so it will actually fit me? Fingers crossed! ;)  )

Beatnik is well past the half way mark with most of the back knit and the sleeves done but I need some clear headed thinking to figure out where I am in the chart (my post it notes dried up and fell off during its' 6 week period of neglect :(  )

I even finished a Bandana Cowl (Free Pattern from Purlsoho) to give to a friend. I'm going to try to get that FO post done this week!

So I have been knitting and its been very enjoyable and I can't say that about a lot of things these days so Yay for Knitting!

And "Yay" for knitters like you dropping by today! 

"Transitional Scarf" by Veronique Avery FO

Pattern: "Transitional Scarf" by Veronique Avery

Source: "Knitting 24/7"

Yarn: 3 Balls Debbie Bliss Amalfi (70% Cotton, 15% Viscose, 10% Linen, 5% Silk)

Colour: 32008 Lot: 7179

Source: The Naked Sheep

Needles: 4mm Aero Straights

Size: 5 1/4" wide x 65" long

Start: June 18 Finish: June 26, 2010

Modifications: None

First of all, I admit, I didn't swatch. Its a scarf - I indulged myself and dove right into casting on...what a naughty knitter! 

The book states this design is intended to produce something to wear "between seasons".

The finished product (a birthday gift for my Aunt) feels very appropriate to this idea both in the hand and around the neck.  My Aunt's summers are spent on Georgian Bay where there is always a cool breeze - especially in the evening so I think she'll get lots of wear out of it not only spring and fall but during the summer as well. I suspect the fact the colour looks fabulous next to her skin (very much like Darling Daughter's colouring in these shots) will also prompt her to often grab it on her way out the door.

This is my first FO from "Knitting 24/7".  It was, indeed the kind of knit that as a project was

"portable and simple enough to make use of those nooks and crannies in life when things are busy but hands are free".

Working this piece in a week to a deadline was too forced to rely on "nooks and crannies" of time but I can see how it would lend itself to that kind of knitting.

The yarn is similar to but different from the one stipulated by the pattern but of all the cotton and cotton blend yarns we looked at the Amalfi had an unparalleled depth of colour and a soft, casual sophistication that really appealed to my Aunt.

I saw this yarn knit up as a sleeveless stockinette top at Passionknit. Fortunately I was already well into knitting this scarf because the texture of that fabric was kind of course - especially on the purl side. The yarn didn't celebrate the knit side of the stockinette terribly well either and I might have been put off using the yarn if I'd seen that sample first. It doesn't even feel like the same yarn in this lacier application where it reminds me of cotton chenille.

The colourway seems almost luminescent with a crisp freshness reminiscent of adding a squirt of citrus to a vegetable dish or salad. (I had the same impression when knitting with the DB Donegal Luxury Tweed this past winter  so I assume this must be something purposeful on the part of Ms. Bliss and her design team.)

Apparently this yarn is described by DB as a "summertime tweed". There are no tweedy flecks but it does indeed give that very impression. BTW the shot above and the one below is of the "wrong side" of the work. 

I like the softness of this side without the strong vertical element of the lines of double slipped and passed over stitches as you can see in this next picture...

I skipped my usual wet blocking and instead steam blocked it on the ironing board after heavily misting both sides.  This flattened things out to create a nice fabric and drape and smartened up the stitch work without squashing everything to death.

The pattern notes encourage a very loose cast on to allow for the scalloping of the ends and it seems I managed to accomplish that. (Big excitement for this generally "tight" knitter!)

The three needle bind off joining the two halves knit from the bottom edges up seems successful in that the pattern from each half lined up nicely.  (Is that line of garter supposed to be there in the middle? As you can see I decided that it was intentional - or at least not too objectionable because I left it that way but seriously, did I do it wrong?)

However correct or incorrect the bind off, I think she is going to love it and wear it and its finished on time so I'm happy with it too!

I'm also happy to have all of you to share it with! Thanks again for taking the time to drop by!

New Dawn Climbing Rose

Not much to post about a scarf!

Great progress is being made on this little project.  I've finished the first half, its off the needles on a holder and I'm onto the next side.

I'm having pretty good luck with avoiding stupid errors - aided immensely by incessant counting, a mantra of the stitches and several stitch markers against which to check the veracity of each row. 'Talk about training wheels!

The yarn is splitty in the extreme. There's no looking away for even a stitch but then given all I'm having to do to knit error free its not like I'm likely to do that anyway.

I'm aiming for completion in the next couple of days and at this rate it seems doable.

That's about it - there's really not much to post about a scarf is there?

In other "news" this is the last day of exams for Number One Son. "Our" summer starts tonight with a belated cast party for the school play in which he had a role. I feel like I'm fighting the cold My Beloved kindly brought back from his most recent trip and I'm in a bit of denial about just how much I need to get done before our holiday at the cottage starts next week. As Winnie the Pooh would say "Oh Bother!"

Thanks for dropping by!

Early Sunday Morning on the Porch

Our resident "Father" is on a plane this Father's Day morning on his way home to be celebrated and spoiled this afternoon and over dinner by his "wee babies". Dinner will be arranged by the resident "Mother" ;).

After another late Saturday night waiting up for our socializing teen I nonetheless was up with the birds to enjoy hot coffee, sunshine, a delicious fresh breeze laden with honeysuckle, rose, peony and lavender perfumes and this basket of cottony goodness...

 And some (this time) green cotton knitting that was "happy" beyond just the colour.

In the hot muggy storminess that dominated our weather yesterday, Number One Son was studying for exams, Darling Daughter was out for the day and of course My Beloved was away so I stayed inside and started on the Transitional Scarf from "Knitting 24/7". Despite my dismal struggles with the Mesh Bag this week I'm encouraged to see that I am capable of progress when working without interruptions!

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Darling Daughter Scarf FO

Pattern: Drops Design Polaris Scarf

Yarn Debbie Bliss Donegal Luxury Tweed Chunky

Colour: 33511 Dye Lot: 509

Needles 8mm

Start: January 6 Finish: January 13, 2010
Size: 26 cm x 170 cm (10.25" x 67")

Modifications: Adjusted all numbers upwards 30% (details here)

The 30% adjustment upward to larger needles, bigger cables, wider edging to make up for my use of "Chunky" weight rather than the "Extra Bulky" called for in the pattern successfully yielded the kind of large and long scarf the pattern is designed to do and DD was hoping to get...

And the tinkering was worth it because the yarn is utterly beautiful and I think especially so in this application.  On my monitor the almost luminous quality of this yarn is even coming through. I hope you can see it too! Its as if the yarn were lit from within!

The tweediness also adds a dimension once you are too close to make out the detail of the cable which quite frankly is anything closer than about 4' away! The Drops "Polaris"  yarn for which the scarf is designed is a pencil roving style in solid colours which does wonders for the knitting when viewed flat and from a distance but wrapped around the neck, the detail of the cable is lost, leaving the yarn to perform on its' own merits. If the singular feature of the yarn is its' large size and you're too close to appreciate its' performance in the big huge cable, then it's nice to have another level of detail in its stead and the tweed works wonders in that regard.

Then once you get even closer you become aware of the 15% Angora content through its' subtle but undeniable halo. The angora also makes the knit quite cozy and comfortable against Darling Daughter's neck where she really cannot tolerate pure wool.

All taken together of course, this is where, just as its name asserts, the DB yarn really is a "Luxury" Chunky. In all fairness, the Drops yarn is about 40% of the price of the DB. Since I had my Christmas Gift Certificate to use, I was lucky enough not to have to incur the full cost of all that "Luxury". The price tag to me of this knit was about $13.00!

On top of all that, it's also one very warm scarf! As we enjoy a bit of a January thaw here in Toronto the scarf is allowing Darling Daughter to go out in a spring/fall weight jacket, giving her winter coats a bit of a rest.

 

I'm gratified by this because I knit like mad for a week in the hopes of getting the thing around her neck in the bitter cold weather, which I didn't manage to do. Of course being chunky weight, the knitting did go quickly. I  bought 5 skeins rather than 4 at the urging of the ladies at Passionknit but I was hoping to get the job done in 3 and in the end, that's all it took.

So Drops Design and Debbie, (with a bit of help from me), have delighted Darling Daughter! Ta DA!

Thanks for dropping by!

+.3 Doing the Trick with .3 Left to Go (I hope!)

Love: The Yarn and Pattern (Although the light today is just not allowing me to capture the great depth of colour with which this nubby beauty seems to abosolutely glow!)

I was able to work quite a bit on the Darling Daughter scarf over the weekend and so made good progress, polishing off two skeins, yielding 5' of length. Its lovely yarn to work with and the pattern is turning out nicely both with the yarn and in absolute terms.

The pattern is from Drops Design* but 'calls for "super bulky" while I'm working with "chunky". To maintain the effect of the pattern's bulkiness and style without achieving its overall size because of the finer yarn I used a 30% larger needle than called for on the ball band (8mm rather than 6mm), swatched, calculated and then cast on 1/3 more stitches and made each cable 1/3 wider (8 stitches instead of 6). This is working to nicely maintain the relative scale between cable and borders and minimize the effect of the yarn...did I mention the yarn is lovely?...

The Needle, is not so lovely...

I'm using a lousy 8mm circular with a cable that's too long for the task. It also has these weird bumps in the cable close to the join. Despite having warmed and straightened the cable as best I could before starting it seems to be intent on reverting to more of a corkscrew arrangement with every row I knit. I can get a better needle tomorrow but I was kind of hoping to be almost done by then.

And I'm at the 2/3's finished point where, with scarves I tend to...

• Wonder why I think they're fast and easy when they're often easy but rarely fast.
• Loose enthusiasm as the frequent turning gets tougher with each added inch of length.
• Just feel it should be done long before it is.

This scarf is to be big and looooooong and Darling Daughter, at close to 5'11", wants and can carry very long and very big so I'm starting to suspect that what I believe to be the "2/3's point" is actually going to become "just past half way"

Bottom line, being a mother I just really want my "baby"(nearing 6' tall or otherwise) to be warm so I want to get the thing thing done already so she can wear it in this bitter cold weather ASAP!

Oh speaking of "cold" and "ASAP" - I've gotta head out into it and walk!

Thanks for dropping by!

*Be careful if you follow that link - there are 2800 Free Patterns at that site, with all of them save the baby knits being modelled by 6' tall Scandinavians and so looking very compelling as a result!

Breast Cancer Scarf '09 FO

Pattern: My Own using Eyelet Cable Stitch from VK Cardigan by Josh Bennet

Yarn: Paton's Divine

Colour: Chantilly

Needles: 7mm Straights

Start: September 20 Finish:October 12, 2009

Size: 9"x64"

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A bit of deja vu this is!

'Same yarn as last year's October Breast Cancer Scarf. Same quantity (2 balls - one donated to DKC for this program, one almost complete ball I had on hand) I really love this yarn - the perfect soft pink - fluffy but not in an overly girly way and somehow with a bit of sheen too. The slightly matted look of the yarn gives it an edge that counteracts its soft, fuzzy pinkness.

Its the same cabled eyelet pattern as the cardigan I've just cast on from last winter's Vogue Knitting. (I feel like I've just produced the world's longest swatch!) Bottom line though I think the yarn and stitch pattern are a lovely match!

I like the way the cable gives a bit of shape to the ends.

I found knitting this that I have the same feeling about making it for someone facing difficult times and yet feeling good about doing something to contribute but new this year is the contest I'm going to enter with a photo of this FO over at Cheryl's blog!

Thanks for dropping by today and if you're in Toronto tonight - don't forget the DKC meeting at Innes Hall on St. George Street. Its the Twist Trunk Show presented by DKC Member and Twist Contributor Fiona Ellis with Kate Gilbert in attendance via Skype!

All By Myself

In the heady days following the class I took with Annie Modesitt last June I was all about taking ownership of my knitting - in particular choosing increases and decreases that I thought suited the task at hand. While I did think about this over the summer I didn't really have anything to which I could apply it with any significant affect. But I found a place to be fully contrary with decreases in the Breast Cancer Scarf I'm working on.

This is the scarf for which I'm using the eyelet cable pattern for a VK sweater that is next in my queue (if I ever sort out the nasty business going on with my Fair Isle Cardigan and Tangled Yoke!)

The eyelets are created with Yarn Overs paired with decreases. The decreases are k2tog on the right so as to encourage the eyelet to appear to lean towards the centre of the pattern while

those on the left are ssk's pushing the YO to the right towards the centre.

The thing is, the sweater is designed to be very close fitting with lots of negative ease which then opens up the eyelets. Scarves are generally bunched up though so I worried the eyelets would be lost. (The fuzziness of the yarn I'm using for the scarf is a further hindrance to the visual prominence of the eyelet openings) So I decided - all by myself and fully contrary to the pattern to reverse the decreases - to use the ssk's on the right and the k2tog's on the left to force the lean on the eyelets outwards against the grain of the pattern and lo and behold it worked!

The eyelets aren't just visible, they're actually prominent. How great is that?

Coincidentally, while I was feeling very pleased with my "heretical" knitting behaviour, I happened to read the letter from the Editor of VK from the Winter 06/07 issue and noted the following...

"We have scores of readers (who)...take a cable from here, an edging from there to create something entirely their own...We encourage you to use our work as the basis for yours..."

All taken together I'm starting to regard my collection of knit magazines more as a stitch dictionary and a large array of knitting ideas rather than just a finite body of patterns. With that realization my pattern "library" felt like it instantly grew to many times its original size (but without taking up any more room on the shelf)!

Thanks for dropping by today!

One Thing Leads to Another

It all started with this yarn...

Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool. Undyed, lanolin intact, a fabulous shade of brown.- I got three skeins - a sweater's worth - on sale at Micheal's in August for less than $25!

I am fully in love with this yarn and keep imagining it in so many knits there's a real danger that left to my own devices I might well be covered head to toe in it by Christmas!

I'm sure there's a proper name for its construction but it feels as though its unspun - its not - but that's how it seems in the hand.

I love the way it looks in a cable - so rich - but also in garter - so rustic. (Frankly I love the way it looks in the ball with its brown paper ball band!)

I swatched it, for, among other things, this VK Winter '09 cardigan.

Then I came home with some Paton's Divine in "Chantilly Rose" that was donated to the DKC for knitters to make into and then donate Breast Cancer Scarves. (Hey Cheryl - count me in for your October contest! And to blogless Cherilyn - I'm going to have this ready for the next meeting - will you have yours?) Its the same yarn as I used for last year's Breast Cancer Scarf and I was having trouble imagining it in another design so I left it in view in the hopes of having inspiration jump out at me.

The Fisherman swatch was similarly lying around as I pondered its suitability for the planned Cardigan. While playing with the swatch doing just that I spied the pink yarn across the room and it occurred to me I might well put the cable from the cardi and the DKC yarn together to good effect for a scarf. Of course I'd need some garter stitch either side to counter rolling edges but I thought it was worth a try.

So last night, I have to admit, I "strayed" a bit, I left the Fair Isle Cardi - now all on one needle - on its own for the evening. The Pi Shawl will be blocked today so I thought casting on for something else seemed fitting!

After two repeats of the pattern I was convinced this yarn and pattern were a great match.

So something from the stash meets one from the queue which begets a WIP as the lastest FO hits the Aqua bath. Ahhhhh knitting!

Men's Alpaca Scarf FO

Aka "The Sad Tale of a Knitter Learning Simple Lessons the Hard(est) Way"

Pattern: End to End 2 Row Reverse Stocking Stitch Rib Scarf (My Own)

Start: February, 2007 Finish, September 9, 2009

Yarn: Drops Alpaca Fingering

Colour: Maroon Mix

Rather than get into the miserable story behind this FO lets instead start with the happy ending of this tale - a warm, soft, fingering weight alpaca scarf in simple 2 row reverse stocking stitch ribbing. Each long rib is finished with a 2" knotted fringe.

The scarf is 7"wide by 82" long (exluding fringe). The soft springy squishiness of the finished piece is too fabulous for words.

My Beloved, for whom I knit this scarf is very happy and so am I.

The End.

Seriously though, how can such a simple story with such a happy ending take soooo long to complete? Because while the end of the story may be simple, the bulk of the tale is simply awful.

This scarf started out as "Henry" , the yarn optimistically cast on twice with a circular I didn't bother to relax before using to cast on hundreds of stitches so I worked away on my Italian Tubular Cast On while fighting with the corkscrew shaped cord before trying it another time with a the circular relaxed in warm water before finally switching to a straight needle.

I discovered though that this was a bad cast on to choose whatever the needle because it really didn't work with my sticky, fine, yarn. To allow the long strand of yarn to be retracted from its tube after the cast on was complete, the thing had to be so loose it didn't look "tubey" it just looked sloppy.

On I went, ignoring the sloppy edge, convinced a good blocking would even things out but after a few very long rows I recognized that the alpaca fuzz rendered the herringbone stitch of the original pattern for this scarf completely invisible. So I decided that since the herringbone was impossible to make out I could just switch to a new pattern and leave the edge as is. It was many 450 stitch rows later that I recognized the stiff, unyielding herringbone couldn't remain beside the springy rev st st rib I chose without creating a magnificently evident puckering all along its length. (shot below illustrates ribbing released from the puckering influence)

By the time I realized this I had quite a few more hours invested in the new and improved section so I ran a life line of dental floss through the bottom row of rev st st and started ripping out from the tubular cast on edge upwards...did you just gasp? I know, how stupid could I be? After a couple of dozen hours at that (over quite a few months) I had a clean row of loops. I knit two ribs or four rows then cast off.

While I blissfully knit the last half of the scarf, practicing my continental technique along the way I committed these hard learned lessons to memory...

• The more important the stitch definition, the more important the yarn chosen should be capable of revealing that definition. Yarn choice is critical to successful execution of a knit pattern.
• If my needle looks like a Slinky toy, it is NOT ready to be used.
• Use straights for casting on large numbers of stitches
• Think carefully about all aspects of a particular yarn and design before choosing a method of Casting On
• Ripping out from the cast on edge upwards is perhaps the most hideous exercise one can undertake with yarn and needles.

So really it didn't take 31 months to finish the scarf - it took 31 months to learn all these lessons.

The painful process of saving the yarn from my ignorant blunderings gave me many hours to resolve never to commit these mistakes again. (It never ceases to amaze me that "knowing" something is nowhere near sufficient to ensure I'll incorporate it into my actions - too often I need to have experienced the downside of failing to do things correctly in order to see how important doing it the right way really is.)

Well, with that knit and post off my chest and looking very much forward to seeing that scarf hanging on My Beloved's chest this winter, its onwards and upwards! I haven't decided what to take to the cottage with me to work on this weekend - I'm off for a long overdue haircut right now - thinking about the weekend's knitting will give me something to contemplate in the Subway.

I hope you have a good weekend knitting away on something you love. If you're at the Kitchener Knitter's Fair as so many local knitters will no doubt be - Enjoy!

Thanks for dropping by!

DKC Diamond Scarf FO

Pattern: Small Tilting Blocks Scarf - DKC Newsletter - January 2009

Yarn: Diamond Luxury Collection - Mulberry & Merino 50% Silk 50% Merino

Colour: 7025 Lot 2012

Start: January 14 Finished: April 24,2009

Modifications: None

I'll get to the story behind this scarf but first, the knitterly details. The pattern is 2 sets of alternating 4 row repeats. Its easy to memorize, easy to rip back and easy to see where you are in the pattern if you do happen to nonetheless lose your way.

I love the linear regularity of the pattern combined with the kind of juggled alignment that adds movement and interest. The little points that naturally occur at the ends aren't too shabby either!

The yarn is nothing short of magical. Its shiny but also fluffy. It feels great in your hands and knitting with it is effortless. Despite its fairly bulky size it slides through and around as each stitch is worked. It holds a dropped stitch until its easily retrieved while still yielding if you do have to rip back. I had no trouble with splitting.

Post blocking it drapes very nicely and feels great against the skin. Many of these aspects are of course due to the silk content but to look at it, it doesn`t scream `silk`to me and unlike silk, it stays put around the neck.

I have looked for more of this yarn in every LYS I`ve visited since I first encountered it last fall at a DKC meeting where the story behind this scarf begins...

I detailed the events of that particular meeting, featuring presentations by 5 local yarn companies where the guys from Diamond Yarns stole the show when they literally threw yarn into the audience. This post, so cleverly titled `Men throwing Yarn`, sums up what all went on at that meeting but it doesn`t explain that the knitters around me, when they saw I had one skein literally gave me two more! There was a woman in front of me who, as soon as the yarn stopped flying, started brokering deals to give any one knitter enough of a single yarn to really do something with it. She spied a skein of red yarn I had in my hand that I guess her friend really wanted - her friend of course had a skein of the Mulberry & Merino. In a flash she had switched our skeins so that I was left with a second ball of the the Mulberry & Merino and her friend had two of the coveted red. Then the woman behind me just handed me her single skein saying ìf you have three you can really do something with it! To be honest the yarn didn`t really `speak`to me at the time and I felt a little awkward taking it because I had nothing left to offer her but she insisted and I went home that night with 270 meters of lovely lavender potential.

The thing was, I didn`t have a plan or even an idea of what to do with it until the DKC January newsletter arrived in my mail box. The monthly pattern featured on the back jumped right out at me as the perfect way to put that yarn to use.

So that`s what I did!

My plan is to share this tale during `Show and Tell` at the May DKC meeting and thank all the assembled knitters for their roles - direct or indirect in facilitating this satisfying little FO!

BTW thank you all for your kind comments on my earlier post today! After re reading it I just wanted to clarify - I'm not literally seeking Glenna's approval or worried she would look ascance at my work. Its that I'm striving for the kind of knitting confidence that Glenna exemplifies, and I linked to her recent posts re "Autumn Rose" because they so perfectly demonstrate that confidence I'm striving for but was feeling worried I'd never attain.