FOs, WIPs and a hell of a time.
School has been out only 2 weeks and I’m already back in full knitting mode. Amazing what a little spare time can do, right? I finished off Mom’s Clapotis that I promised her sometime in the early 90’s…alright maybe a year ago…and I’ve already started a new project.
FO: Mom’s Clapotis
- Yarn: KNITPICKS! Wool of the Andes in Mink Heather
- Needle: US8 Addi circulars
- Modifications: Zilch. Although I tried purling the stitches to be dropped instead of using 900 stitch markers…genius!
It blocked beautifully and should keep my forever-frigid mother from shivering in her conference rooms where she swears they have “mistaken us for slabs of meat”.
Now that I’m done with that it is safe to say I will never knit another Clapotis in my life. Not that it’s a bad pattern…I just HATE knitting the same thing more than once.
So I’ve cast on for the Forest Canopy shawl to KAL with LSG in our spin off KAL group on Ravelry. It’s a pretty simple lace pattern I’ve managed to screw up 3 times already. It’s currently on the time-out chair and I’m not speaking to it but I think I’ll get to tinking back those three butchered rows today. I am using a lifeline every repeat but naturally I didn’t feel like getting up to get my dental floss after the last repeat and thought “screw it, I’ll just be careful”. Famous last words.
Here’s some in-progress shots, color correct thanks to the use of a gray card. Finally my yarn photographing nightmares are over. It is Handmaiden Sea Silk I picked up at Maryland Sheep and Wool ‘08.
Speaking of Maryland Sheep and Wool, I forgot to post the photos on here when I got back. Here’s my Flickr set from the weekend. We had a GREAT time! LSG had their first ever after party in the absence of an “official” Rav party. We’re going to do it for every fest now because we just had an amazing time. Not that the official Rav parties weren’t great but there is something about a smaller crowd of “your people”.
And hanging with 4 out of 6 of the LSG Mod Squad was so great. LanieRed and Jo (Multispork) were sorely missed, so we made a video for them. Ignore my drunkface.
Thanks to all the LSGers who came out and made it an amazing time. I’m going to keep the sign I used to draw the crowd at the daytime meetups forever.
