I've decided to stick to just three things each week. My middle aged brain can't multi-task or multi-wip much these days.
At the moment I have my six socks kal for commuting
My Shoalwater shawl for lace.
My DB cotton cashmere bolera for plain knitting.
Progress is slow, but much faster than knitting a dozen things.
The fiery bolero is moving along. One thing that is really peeving me about db cotton cashmere is that I keep splitting the stitches, and only noticing 10 rows further on. I've had to leave one split stitch, and have pulled the threads through to the wrong side.
The bolero is knitted in one piece, with a shaped back. The pattern as written has you casting on the central back stitches, and then casting on at the beginning of each row a number of stitches, using the cable cast on (I call this the knitted cast on). IMO this gives an obvious stepped shaping, so I've used short rows throughout, to shape the back, sleeves and (so far) the left front. I'm leaving the front sts live as well, will just knit on for the border ribbing.
This shows the back, and the left front and short sleeve.
And this is the left front and sleeve, the stitches on the needle are the bottom edgeing of the left front. I know, it looks like it's a set in sleeve armhole!
Lace
Summeroflace to be more accurate. I've had a yearning for lace recently, and have even picked up my shoalwater shawl again. I couldn't resist another yahoo kal! At least this one isn't specific, it can be anything lacey, which suits me. So far, it's only the Shoalwater shawl, but I have plenty of shawl patterns and laceweight yarn in my stash, biding time!
Progress pic (this is coming with me tonight to Libertys, wonder if I can ensnare another shawl knitter?).
I've only got another couple of pattern repeats to do - that's 96 rows until the edging, but it's still really small. One of the hazards of lace knitting: when to finish. I know how much these things can grow in blocking!
