Last Wednesday, mah knitta and I headed over to Maison Tricote for some tea and some knitting. While there, she gave me an early birthday present; a project bag (which, as anyone who has read my blog knows, I love me a project bag) and a notions tin. She's awesome!
The bag is currently home to my latest shawl project, as it is the perfect size.
When knitting, we always make it a point to get up, stretch our legs and walk around the store*, and on one of these little stretch breaks, I came across a shawl hanging on a wall in the back, that I absolutely fell in love with; this beautiful little shawl was Artesian by Romi Hill. It's absolutely gorgeous, and I bought the pattern as soon as I got home. I plan on knitting it in the next couple of months. I would have been casting on immediately, except I had already sort of started another shawl pattern. By sort of I mean I had printed out the pattern, had readied the needles (it needs three sizes) and had narrowed the yarn I was going to use, down to three skeins. Finally I chose Julie Asselin Piccolo in this amazing, variegated, totally out of my comfort zone colourway called Nebula and a couple of days later, cast on Dragonfly Wings by Boo Knits.
The pattern and the yarn really seem to go well together. I've been very much enjoying the knitting, and I haven't noticed much pooling at all. I'm loving everything about this project. The pattern is enjoyable, easy to memorize, the yarn itself is lovely to work with, and the colours make me so very happy.
Progress pictures of Dragonfly Wings.
Saturday, I hit the lace part of the pattern. Saturday, I had several glasses of wine while at my mom's (for my birthday dinner). Saturday, I messed something up, but did not notice (thanks, wine). Sunday, I did not go knitting, wanting to spend time with my beloved for Valentine's day (also it was way too bloody cold to leave the house). Monday, the 5yr old had a ped day and wasn't feeling well, so we snuggled on the couch for much of the morning. Monday night, I got out the knitting, knit a row and noticed the numbers and yarn overs were off.
Fuuuuuuuuuck.
This afternoon, I ripped back a bunch of rows (each one over 270 stitches btw) and put the whole thing back on the needles.
I'm too scared to pick it back right now. I'm worried that I missed picking up some stitches and if I can't get it all fixed, I might just frog the whole damn thing.
I've learned that even with stitch markers, me + wine + lace knitting = bad combination.
Unsurprisingly, I have not knit on Greenfield since casting on Dragonfly, though in between Dragonfly and Honey Black Death I did knit some rows on the cardy.
Full disclosure: I'm knitting the chart top down, instead of starting from row 1, I started at row 29.
I only realized this after knitting 9 rows.
I am not ripping back.
Next time I will read the pattern. All of the pattern.
For now I have an upside down leaf. This is not something that is going to bother me. Especially since I don't know if I'm ever going to finish this sweater.
Oh! As promised, Honey Black Death FO pictures! Nikki wants to help!
As you can see in the pictures, I used my Knitter's Pride Knit Blockers, and wow are they ever sharp. Which it actually states on the label, it's no lie, I bled from a dozen teensy tiny pinpricks. Luckily, none of the blood got on the shawl. They work very well, they do a great job and I recommend them! I did use my t-pins for the points though.
Here's me wearing the shawl, with shawl pin-
Sans shawl pin-
Hopefully next week, I'll have a a finished Dragonfly Wings shawl!
*We don't always make it a point to get up and walk around, mah knitta does pretty consistently, but I'm more lax about it. The point is that I try to get up and walk around when I've been sitting and knitting for a chunk of time, because I know it's better for my body to get up and stretch my muscles and change positions on a frequent basis. Especially as I have a tendency to be hunchy when I knit, or curl up into weird positions.
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