First, thanks for all the wonderful compliments on the VLT scarf I knit for my Grandma Adeline! Now if I could just get it packaged up and mailed off to her. <\/p>\n

Work has been very busy this past weekend and week, and I have had to do quite a bit of work at home. This seriously cut into my knitting time. It wasn’t until Wednesday evening that I thought I could knit without making a mistake. Last Saturday, I procrastinated with the work stuff and managed to finish knitting the piecrust basketweave scarf. It still needs blocking.<\/p>\n

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Mmmm….soft alpaca…<\/i><\/p>\n

I also started a sock in Tofutsies. Since I hadn’t knit with this yarn before (and because my brain was goo), I decided on a simple 4×4 rib, but after 8 rounds I had two needles of pink\/purple (16 st each) and one needle (24 st) of blue\/purple. I wasn’t getting pooling, I was getting vertical segregation! I can be OK with pooling in some instances, but this was goofy looking. So I ripped. Last night while paging through Vogue Stitchionary 2: Cables<\/i> I found “zig and zag” (#10), and I thought the twisted stitches might fix the color segregation problem. I think it might be working. It appears to be spiraling the hot pink; it’s on all three needles. I’m keeping my fingers metaphorically crossed.<\/p>\n

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Last Friday I tried the Lenten Rose pattern from Sundara’s Petal Collections while watching Monk<\/i> and Psych.<\/i> That proved a mistake. After two repeats of the pattern I wondered why it didn’t look like Sundara’s picture. My double YO eyelets did not line up like Sundara’s. So I ripped. I tried again last night. I think this time I got it right. It helped for me to chart the pattern!?! That is so unlike me, I don’t know what to think of that, so I’m just knitting instead.<\/p>\n

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The Fleece Artist Parrot (guacamole) sock is waiting patiently for my hair appointment on Saturday afternoon. I’ve promised to work on it then, and get it done very<\/i> soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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