I promised some knitting content for today; never let it be said that I don’t deliver on my promises.

Cindy stopped by for another knitting lesson–she finished off the top of her very first sock, and cast-on for the second one, and is very proud of herself (as she should be!). She’s heading to Sweden for vacation on Friday and will be bringing Sock2 on the plane with her. I sadly didn’t think to get out the camera to record the event, but I was too distracted watching her and Chappy play together. She’s one of his favorite people and for him, her visits are all about “Pet me! Scratch me! Play with me!”

I did another pattern repeat on my little, handspun scarf. I’m thinking I should have made it wider after all, but I’m worried that I’ll run out of yarn if it’s too wide. I have only a limited amount of the roving, and it’s not all spun yet, and so I don’t have a final tally for yardage . . . but I think that a little wider would be nicer . . . and I am knitting with singles instead of plied yarn, so the yardage is theoretically double what I could otherwise have expected. What do you think? Is 3″ wide going to be wide enough? (The question whether I’ll actually ever wear it, since I’ve never tried the narrow, multi-wrapped scarf thing–is a whole ‘nother issue.)

I also did a few more rows on my Union Square Market Pullover, which is just about to the 11″ length needed before starting the next phase. Which means I can no longer put off the calculations needed to get the short-row shaping for the top finished properly. I’ve avoided it as long as I could, but it seems that now is the time! I should probably take advantage of the fact that it’s a weekend and do it right now, but Sunday afternoons tend to make me lazy, and so I’m stalling. But really, is that so terrible? Well, probably yes (though “terrible” is a strong word). I am, after all, hosting the KAL and while I’m clearly not going to be the first person done, I think it behooves me not to loiter on the journey.

And the last knitting point for today–I’m going to make another Christmas Tree hat and take notes this time on the number of stitches, the shaping, all that, with the intention of writing it out as a pattern. (Maybe I’ll offer it to Knitty?) I love this pattern, but, well, I’m the one who designed it, so of course I do!

Oh, and to answer the question (and which I meant to include in yesterday’s post, but it was late, I was tired, and I forgot)–yes, I did knit at the reception yesterday, though only for a few minutes. The whole reception was very nicely paced, with the different courses for dinner, the presentations, the mandatory bride-groom things like cake-cutting and first-dance, there really wasn’t much time to get bored (phew!). But that last half-hour or so, the music was getting too loud for me, so I went outside to sit in the courtyard to enjoy some peace and quiet, and I figured that, well, yes, I would do a little knitting, just because I could, and it was quite nice, too, thank you very much.

I also thank you all for the compliments–my Peacock very much enjoyed its day out (though, not so much with the shoe heel), but she was a little disappointed that no one gushed or complimented her in any way. The closest was when my nephew–who also came outside at the end of the reception and saw me knitting–looked at my shawl and said, “Well, did you make that?”–very much expecting, it was clear from his tone of voice and the playful look on his face, that I would say no. But when I said yes, he looked shocked! And, I’ll take that as a compliment, because he was so clearly impressed. (And, I mostly wore it tied in front because that took up some of the slack so it didn’t drag so close to the ground. I do wish I were taller!)

One last note–I’m praying for all the folks in Hurricane Katrina’s way (including, but not limited to Mom’s friend Seamond). Yet another hurricane rushing to wallop the gulf coast–they’re evacuating New Orleans, and when’s the last time you heard about them doing that? I just hope that, somehow, the storm won’t be as bad as they fear it will . . . I hope.

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