No clever/silly title atm

Last night I finished mom's afghan! I do need to wet-block it and I'm hoping that helps flatten it out. The i-cord is sort of curling in/scalloping the edges of the blanket. Not sure how long anything I do will stay though considering it's acrylic - and I don't want to risk steam blocking and ruining it. Now I have to wait more than 6mos to give it to her! This will require extreme patience.

I've been *itching* to start a new project and I did take a quick stab at a little dishcloth (although it will be useful for that purpose since I used the super saver yarn from the afghan project which is acrylic and therefore not absorbent at all. Toward the end one of my cheapo needles broke and that has caused kind of a mess. Not sure if I'll finish it or frog it.

Honestly I should probably finish at least the beach bag before I start on something else. The cover-up is feeling rather daunting and the weird yarn is not that fun to knit with as I've said before. I'm tempted to start the Breeze top and I even bought new circular needles (TEENY!) for that purpose, but honestly another tiny-yarn project is not what I need right now. Also I obviously don't want to get any new yarn because I have tons at the moment. I have reasons not to do half the stuff in my queue lol... it's too early for a sweater... I'm already striping with the bag so I don't want to do the zebras, and the other stuff I don't have yarn for or is again tiny or wintery! :P Bahhhhh. Maybe I'll do the boot toppers to match the sweater. I mean it's kind of wintery and the patons yarn isn't that big but it's definitely bulkier than the other two I'm using rn. The other non-project project I've been thinking about doing is knitting a big gauge swatch with all my needles - or most of them. That's sort of on hold, too since I'd want to do it with the knitpicks interchangeable circulars and two of them are in action right now on the beach bag and the cover up.

Well we shall see what I get up to next, or if I decide to be patient and wait until I'm done the beach bag at the very least. (As Sally Bowles would say, "I doubt it, Cliff!"

"Cori B" short for "Cori Beth"
was a childhood nickname

OH! And this past weekend I finally finished Dad's golf club covers, which I need to get in the mail soon for his birthday on June 25th! They're not perfect, but I hope he likes them. I also got these funny/cutesy custom labels and sewed one in to the largest cover.

Ends and Beginnings

Lots to update!

Biggest accomplishment is that I am oh so near the finish line on mom's blanket. All the squares are sewn together (so it looks quite blanket-like!) and I have started on the i-cord which gave me some grief at first but I think I'm doing alright with it now, bit tedious. Speaking of which I'll also be weaving in of ten thousand ends... some of which look like I left them rather short. Then I have to decide whether to wait all the way until Christmas to give it to her, or to bring it to FL when I go for Amanda's wedding and call it an early birthday present.

oh god so many ends

I haven't touched the Jadis since my last entry and honestly am considering putting into hibernation for quite some time.

I started a new project (shame on me since I haven't finished one) - which is the Medano Beach bag Pretty excited about it even though I've already done a fair amount of fudging considering I only started it yesterday :P Had some trouble picking up stitches (surprise surprise) although I think I may not have knit enough rows in the first place and miscounted when I checked. Anyway I am relatively confident it's not going to have a huge effect. I just did a few increases to get the stitch count up before the section with the planned increases (and later decreases) so hopefully it will all work out. I am doing it in knitpicks cotlin which I'm enjoying working with and OF COURSE it's in black and white ;) I actually need to add the additional cotlin to my stash on Ravelry now that I think about it. I bought a bunch of skeins of both black and white - tbh probably more than I'll need for the bag, but hey - talk about versatile colors and yarn. :P

bottom of the bag; starting on the body

In other knitting news: I really need to stop procrastinating on the pom poms for dad's golf covers. I need to make at least one more and then just attach the damn things and finally be done with that project.

The other project I have going is the beach cover -up. I think it's going to be really cute, but knitting with the weird yarn is not the most satisfying experience. It's a discontinued one called Patons Divine. I love the pseudo-lace effect it creates, but it's a bit off-putting to knit with a yarn that goes back and forth between thick and thin. But I do think that the cover-up and the bag will look really cute with my black and white polka dot bathing suit and it makes sense to be knitting summer stuff considering the pending move to FL! If I can just get the two parent projects done, I'll have the two beach items going and maaaaaybe I'll consider giving the Jadis another go.

Lace is for Masochists

This morning I had to rip the Jadis shawl back to the end of the short rows. So that's row 1-5 of the chart which took about 3 freaking hours because of how slow and careful I was trying to be and also because lace knitting is just slow going for me anyway. The worst part was that somehow 1/3 of my lifeline at the 195 stitch mark came out, otherwise I would have been able to rip back to there instead and not lost all of the lace. Sigh. Starting to wonder if I will ever be able to conquer this. :|

On Sunday I began the blocking process for the afghan squares that are done. I'm nearly done with the second rosebud trellis and after that the only one left is the second beansprouts square. The second rosebud trellis is going to be pretty perfect compared to the fudgy first one which makes me wonder if I should re-do that one, but I think I am gonna be lazy.

I also need to finally finish the golf club covers. I meant to do that this weekend, but I worked on the shawl instead and of course that all went down the drain. :(

annnnnnd oh my god but I think I am realizing that I didn't even do the first part of the shawl right. I think I went from the twisted stitches into the short rows without doing the snowflakes chart. Don't think I can bring myself to go back that far again. Christ.

One trellis down

Finished the first Rosebud Trellis square today! Some definite fudging at the end and I do have a line of the delft blue where I don't really want it. I've started the second one and I know it will be a lot easier now that I know the big picture. I may end up re-doing the first one if I find that the error really drives me insane, but I'll climb that trellis when I get to it. One more rosebud trellis and one more beansprouts square and then I will be ready to piece them all together! Well... to see if they CAN be pieced together or whether I need to re-knit the evil eyelet heart squares to a smaller size. I shudder at the thought.

Note tiny zigzag line of Delft blue after third row of rosebuds. Oy.
Also dear lord that was a lot of ends to weave in.

I also took some time tonight to write some fairly detailed notes on my project page that hopefully help out future knitters.