I had a flexi day from work yesterday and caught up on knitting the shawl, while knitting I thought I was one stitch out, I looked back, counted stitches, no seems to be right, but still thought it looked like one stitch out. Well.....6 rows later (1 hour 40minutes knitting time for every 2 rows), it was out, I did think about keep on knitting, DH said you can't notice it.....but I could.....so you know what that means.........ripped it back. DH asked if I could take it off the needles and pull it back would save time......not with 3ply lace knitting you can't. So 4 hours last night and I have 1 and a half rows to still unpull before starting to knit it back.
And to top it off, the baby is going to be 2 or 3 weeks early, that is right, she will be here in the next week and a half. Her mum has pre-eclampsia and has been hospitalised. After a week in hospital she is ready to come home, but she is going to be there until baby is born and they come home. #1 son has quit his job and moved them back with us so he can be close by.
So the shawl has over 80 rows to go and at the moment as 1080 stitches which is taking 1 hour on pattern row and 40 minutes on plain row. I guess the good thing is that it is in the round, so no sewing up at the end, now that has got to save a bit of time.
Here are some of the dyeing, and then sitting outside knitting (I am not in these photo)
3 comments:
Oh such bad luck with the missing stitch. I hope your fingers have wings!!
Your dyeing is wonderful and the little hat is gorgoeus!!
Ahem! I do believe it myself that asked if you had a photo of this fine piece of dyeing as you were starting to unravel it.....always looking for homage ;) Sorry Tianne....;)
I don't remember writing about who I did or didn't ask if I had a picture before unravelling, I was mentioning Tianne as she took a photo as I was unravelling and sent it to me. As for looking for homage....Whatever!
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