Twelve Days & Counting

It's been almost two weeks since I posted last - partly because I was under the weather last week and partly because not much is happening. I'm still working on the Highland Triangle Shawl though sometimes it feels like four rows forward, two rows back. I suspect that if I sat down, turned the TV off and put away my book and paid attention to what I'm doing, I'd make fewer goofs - that makes sense doesn't it? But I've multi-tasked for so long that I can't get comfortable with just knitting without doing something else. I'm still working the diamond pattern in the central triangle and every time I goof it's because I've put a couple extra YOs in - usually into the K2TOG, K1, K2TOG sequence so it's K2TOG, YO, K1, YO, K2TOG. This does not compute on the next row, believe me! Still with perseverance, I'm two rows away from completing the 5th of the six row sets. I just started the 4th skein of yarn (out of 10) on the last row. I won't bore you with a photo because it looks pretty much like it does down there in the last post, just bigger and with a couple extra life lines. So far, it's seemed more reasonable to tink back than pull out needles and go back to the last life line, but they're in there at the end of each row set just in case of disaster.

In other news, I have finished two of the garter stitch shawls for the K4 project and started another. I missed the meeting last week because I wasn't feeling up to par yet and hopefully will get to go tomorrow. I'm feeling great, but we have a forecast of freezing rain, sleet & snow overnight so the question will be if the Sr. Center is open. When I was there Monday teaching the knitting class, we had another donation of yarn (yippee!!) which included a partial skein of WoolEase Chunky and one child-sized mitten made out of it. This afternoon I worked on recreating the pattern and have a reasonable facsimile of the first mitten almost done. It's the first time I've worked with the WoolEase Chunky and I like it. I've only put about 2 hours into the mitten - including swatching and counting stitches in the original - and I'm just a few rows from being finished. Now that's quick!

Now for a rather sore subject - that lime green vest. I finished up the vest a couple weeks ago except for the armhole ribbing and decided that before putting it in, I would take the vest over and have Mom try it on for size. To make a long story short, she decided that she didn't like the color or the texture on the smaller needles. I haven't frogged it again yet but I have the feeling that the yarn may turn into something for my granddaughter if Mom doesn't want it in her wardrobe. {sigh}