Weekend In Review

Ended up staying home most of the weekend. Ran to Lawrence for dinner and errands Sat night, did a little book shopping, etc. Got the newest Laurell Hamilton book, and have read it twice already. By can have it now, I've had my fix :)

Had a friend over for dinner and conversation Sunday afternoon. Good time, got plenty of knitting done. I finished the interlocking swirls border pattern on The Sweater, and am half through the little scrolled leaf pattern than I'm using to separate the larger motifs. So, it's about 7" deep now. Progress. Sent some of the scavanged paper home with friend, so se got a box off the floor too.

My cycle started yesterday, and I was crampy and antisocial all day. Spent the day in my chair, knitting as much as I had the attention span for...work on one thing for an hour or so, pick up some thing else....I did start another shawl in the grey yarn, the Stonington shawl by Elizabeth Zimmerman; a Shetland-style square shawl. I'm about a third of the way through the middle section, as I'm not knitting fast. My hands seem to be cramping with the rest of me.

Did get an inch or so done on the Lopi sweater. It's just too hard to hold onto, to work on for more than an hour at a time.

It's white and foggy outside: we got a bit of snow last night, then apparently freezing rain. By came in from cleaning off the car and said the world was grey and slushy. Lovely. Glad it's someone else's problem today.

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snow tops the teasels
it felt like spring, just
two days ago

Stage one off the to-do list

A couple weeks ago, my sister asked me to make her baby-in-progress a Tigger afghan, since I did a Pooh afghan for her first child. Since that's the only thing she asked for, I couldn't say no, but let's put this project in perspective:

The Pooh afghan took 6 months of multicolored crocheting, sometimes up to 12 different colors per row. Two weeks to weave all the ends in neatly, since I wanted it to be (a) very sturdy, and (b) reversible. And it's about 3 1/2' by 4 1/2'.

I did Pooh from a graph I found on a crochet site years and years ago; it's no longer there, I think. Haven't found a free graph for Tigger, so I've spent the morning making one to work from.

Now, off to the yarn cabinet, to see what I've got (and how much)that'll work for this project.

(Yes, I know, I said I wouldn't do something like this again. But when my little sister asks for things like this so seldom, it's sooo hard to refuse.)