Headway has been rather slow with my drop stitch shawl. You may remember in the previous post the great un-knitting that took place. The headway has been the 2nd section of the darker yarn. I went almost a week after getting back in town before I picked it up and did any knitting......not the way to make much progress.
But..........
I've been extremely busy each day working in the yard. After being gone, the flower beds were screaming for attention. The amount of thistles that grew in my absence..yikes. Anyway, working in the yard each day and getting in my daily walks. As many of you know I'm an avid walker and had a banner week last week, breaking many of my benchmark records on Fitbit. So, with walking and yard work, no knitting was accomplished. (flowers are gorgeous about 8 inches in diameter, Mallows).
Since tomorrow is Monday, thought this ditty was worth a laugh. Are you singing it?
Bunheads! I never heard of the show, so seldom watch tv, but my daughter and I watched this recently on a trip together. It's fun, a bit different. The only person I recognized was Kelly Bishop of Dirty Dancing and Gilmore Girls (Mom in both cases. I guess from my googling it didn't make it past 1 season..........too bad was entertaining.
**Having broken my records for steps last week 103,258 with the highest day being 22,723 and lowest day being 12,258...I'm already in the whole for the week after. I've been sitting pretty still for a few days with a bout of Vertigo. Ugh, balance was off, dizzy, and nausea. Does anyone else deal with Vertigo? Have been reading a lot about it, as this is my 2nd episode in 6 wks. AND, that's why I made some progress with the knitting on the shawl........sitting not stepping.
Started this shawl on a recent vacation. Needed something small and easy to work on while on the plane. I've since lost my note and need to refresh my memory, but finding the pattern again on line. I know you were to go as far as you wanted before starting to decrease to make the 2nd half, but I'm having trouble visualizing how to do the decrease so I keep the design where the yarn overs are. The yarn overs for you non knitters is the edge with texture you see on the left. I didn't work on during vacation, and couldn't work on it on the return flight cause I lost my note. Argh.
Instead I worked on this during vacation. It too is a shawl, but after I did several additional rows of light gray and yellow, I decided I didn't like it. And the beginning which is tighter due to using bad needles when I started it......was very apparent to me............so I frogged the whole thing. Another ARGH.
Here's my Un-knitting. They look better together in balls than when it was knitted. So the yellow and gray will have to be for a different project.
And here's how far I got while on vacation after ripping out. I also decided it was too wide so cast on about 3/4th of the number of stitches as the first go round. AND decided to start with the darker combo and paced the stitches different. I did both single and double YO on the first one, but singles really aren't noticeable so didn't use them the 2nd time. I'm also using more garter stitches in between sections of changing colors to add a bit more sturdiness to it. Debating if I have enough yarn or should so find a yellow or blue that blends to add it. From memory believe each ball is slightly over 400 yards.
Went to an art fair while on vacation........more on this later on my travel blog
Did lots of walking and hiking.
Enjoyed a DQ after one hike, but as you can see it was hot and the cone was melting very quickly so when we ordered, she immediately put the cones in a cup.
Haven't joined this blog hop before...but like the idea.
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Took a nice long walk and have already hit my goal of 11K a day. Am thankful I can walk that far, and even more thankful I managed it by 11:30 am, so all the rest of the day will be a bonus.
