Week of meetings

The second week of the month is always like this. (I prefer the months where the second Monday and second Wednesday happen in different weeks. That happens occasionally).

Monday night was CWF. No big deal other than it means leaving the house in the evening and being out until nearly bedtime. Tonight is piano. Wednesday is Elders/Board and I am now the de facto head elder (who does scheduling, and who really is supposed to find a devotional, except I don't think I'm going to do one this month).

I'm looking forward to Thursday.

(Also, today, my department has its meeting with the Dean, and it's the "State of the University" address (Nope, turns out that's next week. Phew.))

I did get in a couple of rows on the Hagrid sweater. And I worked on the new "had to start it" project.

When I made that run down to Sherman (where I complained about the terrible, selfish drivers), I did go to the Hobby Lobby. I bought two skeins of a Paton's Lace yarn (this is roughly a sportweight, mostly acrylic with some wool. And the variety I have has tiny sequins strung through it). And it was purple.

Purple, fluffy, sparkles. Heh. I am more of a girly-girl now than when I was 8. I wouldn't have cared about the yarn at 8 but now at 44 I look at it and go, "I really want a lacy scarf made out of that."

What I wanted was a simple pattern - one that wouldn't require row-counting, one that would be very open, one that would be reversible. I rejected the first few I saw because they either were sufficiently complicated I'd have to count rows, or they carried the ominous "Will bias over large areas" warning (many eyelet patterns will do that). Finally, I found one called Turkish Stitch - one version of it is shown here but the version I used, from my beloved Super Stitches Knitting book, uses a skp rather than a k2tog.

(I know some people have found mistakes in it - I don't remember finding any in the stitches I've used - but I like the book. It's a nice size, the stitches are attractively photographed, and for some of the complex stitches charts are given. I tend to prefer charts and have gotten so I won't consider a stitch library book unless it has them. And I guess, mistakes, I've knitted for long enough that I can look at a pattern and figure out if something's hinky and fix it. That doesn't excuse mistakes but considering that I have both taught from and learned from two different stats texts that had some pretty serious typos - you can't expect perfection these days, most companies don't seem to proofread any more).

It's nice and simple - easy to work on when you're tired and it does give the open meshlike effect I was wanting.