My thoughts are with the people in London right now. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - killing ordinary citizens, people on their way to work or school or out to shop for food for their families, is no way to gain sympathy for one's political cause.
Anyway. I guess I will still post the pictures I have today - I will remind myself that someone, in an essay in Interweave, wrote about how art may be the human response to understanding tragedy, but craft is a celebration of the human spirit and human creativity.
So, first of all - I started something new.
This is the Shape-It! scarf out of the yarn I bought the day Diann and I went to McKinney. I persisted and tracked down (in the Knitlist archives) the brief description of how you do it as a shortrowed piece. I think my earlier misunderstanding was that my brain tends to insist, when I hear the term "short rows" on asking "okay, where do I decrease?" You don't decrease with this kind of short row. (The person who described the method is only named as "Eileen," it's on the Yahoogroups knitlist archive page under the title "Add three stitches")
I'm much happier with how the edge looks done this way - no stairsteppiness. Even though it's an effort to cast on alllllllll those stitches.
And I've been holding out an FO on you all. I worked up the ball of Colinette Mezzotint that Diann sent me as part of a yarn swap:
It's another Sally Melville pattern! This is the "mostly knit round hat" from The Knit Stitch. I used a slightly bigger needle, because the yarn was thicker (and also because I didn't have a short circular in the size specified). The hat is a bit big, but it still fits me:
Forgive the slightly glazed expression - this was after a day of entering heating-degree and cooling-degree data for 102 Illinois counties. Also please forgive the SpongeBob p.j.'s - I took this picture late last evening.
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