Schrodinger's Kittie

Well, I’ve gotten the first pattern complete and am working through the second. I must have done something wrong somewhere, because I am finding that this pattern ends in an odd place. For the life of me I can’t figure out what. So, I am going to have three extraneous green dots on the first color row of the second pattern. Yah, I know. Most would rip it out. Right now, I have no desire to do so. If it annoys me bad enough when I’m done, I’ll duplicate stitch over it. Ugly fix, but that’s the mood I’m in, right now. Probably no more work on this this weekend, as I need to dedicate some time to Kiri (which is 13″ long, now – no idea how wide).

I took my best friend to Hill Country Weavers, yesterday. **chuckles** She had to stop and touch everything. Bless her heart, she’s definitely well on the path to addiction. I thought she might be when she eyed the balls of Koigu KPM that I am using for the Clover socks; and, pulled the alpaca-silk blend (for a pi shawl on my list) out of my hand and started started fondling it. You really know addiction is the case when she starts complaining about having to go see her sweetie cuz she’d prefer to get home and play with her new yarn. **grins**

I can so sympathize….even if I’m just wishing my sweetie were here to pamper me today instead of me being at home knitting. Sacrilidge, I know. What can I say. My head’s pounding and I feel utterly miserable.

Speaking of the Clover socks. I reconsidered the design and sat down and got serious with photoshop on Saturday morning. Here’s the redone design. If I like how it turns out on the socks, I’m planning on using it in a sweater in ivory and kelly green.

I have gotten zero knitting/crocheting done this week. Yes, you read that correctly. Zero. Why? Well, the 8.5 hours of OT this week might have something to do with it. Or the feeling ill, or the pleasant distraction last night.

Ok…I have to recant. I did do some knitting. I started on the Clover socks (my design) and realized the needle size was just a tad too large. At least, it seemed to be. Size 3 (US) with Koigu KPM. It just seems to be wanting a size 2. Of course, ,that’s after I did half of the first pattern and just didn’t like how it was looking. We’ll see. I am going to go pick up yet another set of size two dpns (who’d have ever thought that you’d need so many size 2s?) either tonight or tomorrow and see how that works.

Kiri is languishing gloriously, and will get a bit of work this weekend. The Ark vest is going to be my main focus this weekend, however. I really want to see what it looks like completed.

I’m about 1/3 of the way through Kiri. I’m only going to 62″ across and 30″ long since it’s for a 15 year old.

Kiri in progress:

The Ark vest has about 1/4″ done on it. I’ll snap a photo tonight if I can manage one and show y’all how it’s looking. This is supposed to be hemmed after it’s done to fight the rolling. I sure hope it works cuz it’s rolling like nobody’s business, right now. I’ll also see if I can get a photo of Kiri in progress – though lace in progress always looks so….not right. *grins*

Ark vest just begun:

I think I’ve found someone to spin the flax for me for $2/ounce. Not bad. I’m getting it spun as DK singles. Then, I will dye it when I get it home. I’m going to send one pound at a time so I can afford to get it done. I just don’t have $225 on tap, right now, to get it done in one, fell swoop. I’m also getting some fiber called “Glory” (young angora locks with some VM) from them for me to spin up at home.