So. To the left of me, the broomstick lace scarf that hasn’t enough yarn to be a scarf but which is going to be beautiful and which I will wind up ordering another colour for at some stage. To the right of me, the ripple scarf which is beautiful but terribly slow work altogether.
In front of me the cardigan and it’s the cardigan that demands attention tonight. I need to rip it out. At least I hadn’t that much done.
The cardigan is beautiful, or at least, it looks it on the picture. Somehow I counted the foundation row stitches wrong by about six and thus when I came to the end of Row 1, I still had six stitches from nowhere. Bah. Bah BAH. I need to get stuck into it and see if I can actually make it happen because if I can, my niece wants one too and if it looks feasible she shall have it for Christmas, I mean sometime in the next century. She’ll need to be thinking about a colour but I reminded her about that one on twitter.
I hate ripping stuff out. I know it’s normal. I know everyone goes through it. I know that the new technical term is frogging and I don’t care. It’s all time that wasn’t all that productive. The plus point on this occasion is, I’d only gone one row.
I want to get it started because I also want to start work on this skirt as well that might just only take me a day of solid work to do and I can’t start it until I’ve got the cardigan more or less done. I need to get yarn for it as well but like all the US patterns it’s given for a 5 ply I can’t get here so we’re going with a DK cotton instead. That I will order from Scotland where it appears to cost something like 40% less than it does in Ireland.
All Doris Chan designs. I love her stuff. I’m also looking for a small kind of a shrug thing that I can wear at work to keep my arms and shoulders warm. It has been glacial in the office lately, yesterday, for example, when I didn’t have the tonne weight of pure very expensive wool shawl with me. Why’s this I made it again? So am on the look out for something I can throw together quickly and maybe get some not terribly expensive wool for. Something like this for example.
Okay, not getting anywhere here.
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