Saturday, around 9pm:
Me: (to Mr B, while waving the Pi Shawl around) “Look! It’s getting big!”
Mr B: “It’s rather long, isn’t it?”
Me: “It needs to be. I’m just going to start the edging.”
Mr B: “????”
Me: “For the shawl. It’s going to be pointy.”
Mr B: “Oh!”
Me: “????”
Mr B: “Well, I know you told me what you were knitting, but I… er… forgot. When you held it up, I thought it was just a really big hat.”
Me: “Why would I knit your mother a giant hat with holes in for Christmas?”
Mr B: “Well, she does have a lot of hair.”
So there you have it. I’m not only knitting a shawl, but a giant granny hat.
I’m almost halfway through the edging now.
The photo is slightly blurred, but there’s not much to see, really. Just lots of pointy scribble. The edging is knit sideways and then attached to the edge of the shawl on every other row, so no sewing up, except for the first and last rows.
The pattern is from Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls, like the rest of the lace patterns I’ve used. It should be done and blocking by the weekend. And then only one more Christmas present to go!
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I’ve started a gallery in Flickr for all the knitting projects I’ve completed this year. Maybe I should also have a gallery of frogged stuff. Would be interesting to see which is bigger..! Anyway, it’s in the sidebar and I’ve set it up to show three random projects from this year. Click on it to see them all. I’m slowly going through them all and filling in the yarn and pattern details. There’s probably an easier way to do this, but not sure if Blogger can do such wondrous things.
It was interesting to see just what I’ve knitted this year. There were a few projects I didn’t blog from January/February and had forgotten about until I was looking through the picture folder on my pc, which was cheering. Until I found them, I wondered why it was that I hadn’t done any knitting for almost three months. Worryingly, based on just what I have completed in the past 12 months and then looking at the size of my stash, I won’t need to buy any yarn in 2007 at all. Which of course, is just not going to happen. Don’t be silly!
