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January 14, 2006
Not at All Pleased
Wicked headache from lack of sleep. This is so old fashioned thats its rediculous... I cannot sleep when my husband isn't home. When he goes on weekend tournaments I stay up til 7 or 9 am then crash from til maybe noon if I am lucky. My sleep schedule gets thrown off and I end up stuck in some vicious sleep deprived cycle of forcing myself to stay up to deal with life and being too sleep deprived to relax. I get hyped when I am tired. Anyway I am praying I get to sleep by 11 tonight even tho he isn't home since my entire head is pounding. All this means is that I have barely knit on my Misery Loves Company project. Don't feel too bad. I managed to put in over an hours worth between midnight and 4 am today. 4 to 8 was spent pacing *sigh*
For even more knit related content I have a picture of the hap shawl. Lorraine left a message on my last post stating that she too is working on the same project and I asked for pictures of her almost completed shawl. She kindly posted some today so go check them out. Anyway I am less than pleased with how mine is turning out. I last reported that I had just begun decreases for center diamond and here is a picture of the corner:
On the right hand side you see the increase section created by YO, knit to end of row and on the left side of triangle you see the decrease section created by YO, K3tog, knit to end of row. See how the YOs on increase section are relatively same sized and evenly spaced but how the ones on the decrease section are all mangled and icky? I had planned on knitting each YO to end up with border stitches seperated from center by a row of eyelets but now I doubt I can knit into the decrease sections YOs and worse yet my row of eyelets will look really sloppy. Lorraine's shawl gives me hope that I am worried over nothing but I did turn to 3C for a pow wow over sitch. We have decided that, given my adoration of increase section edge, I should knit 2 triangles and then graft them together to create a square. I am not much of a grafter. Oh sure a sock toe or edging beginning to end but 162sts! Hmmmmmm. Still it is what I think I am going to do. If the grafting doesn't work then I will do the center square or, since I will be breaking away from my usual method of shawl construction working the shawl traditionally. Edging to border to center square then edging to border graft to center 3 times and grafting sides of edgings/borders to each other. I should be an expert grafter by the time I am done with all of that ;^>
yarny days and knitterly evenings to all
PS: dearest SP if you are still checking my blog please email me. I would 1} like to check out your blog and 2} sent you a package and need to talk to you about it. Thanks!
Posted by Elka at 07:38 PM