Rushing

As always, in my rush to finish a project I made a mistake. It’s 16 stripes of EACH color not 16 stripes total. Bah! Have to rip out nearly the whole border (was one repeat away from finishing) and get back to striping…

I’m in that place where I just want to wear the darn thing and start on Lia’s snapdragon tam (hat).

Edited to add (10:20pm): After an utterly frustrating Sunday, I am back on track with this project. Dental floss does make a great lifeline, but man does putting a lifeline in late really suck! I think I spent two full hours just threading it in. Lesson learned.

Knitting in the New Year

Welcome, 2010!

I got a ton of work done on my February Lady Sweater while at Sea Ranch for New Year’s (a family tradition). It helped that we had a whole week there this year (thank you, Mule, for being closed the week between Xmas and New Years)! Of course, I took photos on my dad’s new camera because it’s so much better than mine (here’s hoping they still have them in stock at Costco so I can get one too!) and I ran out of my last skein of Dream in Color yarn. I’ve ordered a fourth skein from Eat.Sleep.Knit and bonus points it gets me started on the Yarnathon for 2010!

I’ll post those pictures of the FLS when I can. It’s exciting that I’ve finished the body and am almost to the elbow on the right sleeve. I somehow managed to get the right side of the lace on the wrong side of the sweater, but luckily there doesn’t seem to be any harm done by flipping the whole thing inside out. Ah, the joy of garter stitch!

Putting the sweater on hold isn’t so bad, though, since I received plenty of yarn for Christmas and I’ve a number of projects to get started on.