Just to say that if you commented on one of my last few posts, your comment was deleted due to my stupidity. *rolls eyes* I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress today and in the time I deactivated the anti-spam plugin to getting the new version up, I managed to get spammed. In my eagerness to delete the spam, I deleted a whole page of comments… 
I’m going to do some knitting to cheer myself up. 
Posted in random stuff
So finally, after three hours, the Peacock Feathers Shawl is cast off and ready for blocking. That is, the cast off took three hours. Knitting a shawl in three hours would be quite a feat. Maybe one day… 
I’ve not tried a crochet cast off before and as crochet and me are not the best of friends, I was dubious about it. I find that a lot of techniques that are useful actually use crochet, such as Emily Ocker’s circular cast on, so it’s a case of having to get to grips with the hook, really, if I want to do these things and to stop being a wuss. I’m a leftie, which doesn’t help matters, of course, but that’s just an excuse. And of course I wasn’t going to skimp on the cast off after spending so long on the shawl. So after a few false starts, I got the hang of it.
(and the photo doesn’t even show the cast off after all that! Pfft!)
It was slow progress, but I’m hoping for that “wow!” moment after blocking that will make it worthwhile. I would say I’m looking forward to not sitting on my bum and knitting furiously for a while, but there’s still another August birthday present to finish. 
Posted in My Year Of Lace
I realise I’m overdue with my weekly Mystery Shawl progress post. Anyone would think that I had started clue 3, made a mistake, tinked, dropped a stitch, couldn’t find it, frogged the whole thing, restarted, made another mistake even earlier in the pattern, frogged again and then started from scratch for the third time and am now finally just over a third of the way through clue 3… *blushes*
There will be an update post hopefully on Friday. I think I’ll have to leave Clue 4 for a while, though, as there’s a certain other project to finish which has a definite deadline.
So much of my recent knitting has been the unmentionable sort. What with knitting for the first two issues of The Inside Loop and then for a couple of secret projects that must remain un-named, it’s been hard to write an interesting post on here when the knitting content is missing.
But all that is over for now, at least. Though my knitting still has to remain unseen by prying wizard eyes. That means you, Cairi!
Posted in My Year Of Lace
