I think that I am in the midst of major PMS-ing. I am just too down to write much. Well, okay it’s more like what I feel like writing is way too personal for a publicly read blog. That being the case, this will be short.
I have started, frogged, reworked, trashed, restarted, frogged some more, reworked some, trashed, restarted, and am finally making some decent progress on my mom’s yellow cruise shawl. I decided to make a few smallish changes to the pattern. (#1) I am using #5 needles instead of the size 3’s that are called for. I just like the lacier look of the slightly larger needles. (#2) I am not putting the beads on in either the cast-on or bind-off as called for. I will either add fringe and include beading in the fringe, or I will simply leave the beads out all-together. (#3) I am currently considering reversing the directions of the pattern for the second half of the shawl so that the “Garden” hands outwords from the center. But this is just a thought at this time.
I koolaide dyed the “Paint Your Own” lace weight that I got from Knit Picks dot com. I used lemon-lime koolaide, and did it in such a way that will aid in acheiving a tye-dyed look in the knitted fabric.
I sure hope that tomorrow some of this “blue” fades.
