Big thing slowing me down was I had some cards to make up for Sunday. I peddle Stampin' Up! stamps, not very actively. My Cousins, Aunt & Mom come up to my workroom once a month to make cards (I think up 5 card designs, usually cased, get things ready for them ie cut the layers out and they make 2 of each card for a total of $10 and take them home).
The other two reasons why are 1) I'm hooked on Cafe World on FB; something so addictive seeing those weird little animated people going about doing "their thing" and 2) more importantly, couldn't remember where I put my row counter to my wrap Friday night. Eventually remembered today that I must have put it in my purse when walking into the restaurant Friday night cause didn't think it worked with my outfit. So glad I found it, had visions of frogging back to last cable row (note to self need to learn how to read cables) just so I could figure out where I was.
Currently have four repeats completed on the wrap and loving how reversible it is. Not 100% certain if I like the ratio of moss stitch/cables I did. Right now, if I were to do this project again, I would add 1-2 more cables and less number of moss stitches. Will have to see if I change my mind when more is done. Here is what I have so far.
Last week MKG had its monthly meeting and the specific charity item being collected was kids mittens and I made two pairs. Okay, okay so one pair is an adult large and the other is a child's small, surely there are very large kids out on the playground and big kids need mittens too! While not too keen on how the kitchner stitch turned out on the larger, I do like the shaping on this pattern, Ann Norling's Basic Mitten, better than the other one. What I like is the decreasing at the top. Submitted for your input are the two mittens side-by-side.
Plans for this week include, getting buttons on my caliometry so I can cover up my ears for the long walk from the parking lot to the hospital, start the Simple Yet Effective shawl (Christmas present) and keep plugging away on my wrap (want to have eight repeats done by end of month).Now off to actually get some knitting done!
