Brian's sweater is moving along. I might even finish the back someday. 30 inches of back, people! The pattern is there for size.
Also, I'm moving slowly along on the manly socks. Plodding, really. I suspect there is no way to make my target date... but it's summer now. Who would really want to wear wool socks in the summer?? They lose a bit of their manliness on my new blanket, I think. My mother bought new blankets for my sister and me, of the same amazing fuzzy yumminess as her current blanket-of-choice. They're machine washable, and mine is pink! Mom knows me so well.
Finally, I cast on for the Hanami shawl. It is amazingly beautiful. The cast on, however, took ages. The longest part? Getting to a bead store to buy the right dewdrop-looking beads. And then locating a crochet hook tiny enough to spear them. With the aid of my roommate, it is cast on and zooming along- nearly one repeat of the basketweave pattern complete. A full view:
And something of a detail:
2 comments:
I can never decide if knitting is cutting into my reading time, or reading is cutting into my knitting time....
I love the Hanami shawl pattern and have not seen it before. Is it fun to knit?
Hanami is amazing! I feel that this first repeat is taking me forever (even considering the other knitting, I've been working on the shawl for over a week and barely have two inches to show for it). It's not an overly intuitive pattern, but I think now I've done one set of the basketweave in each direction, it is becoming much clearer and I am able to knit it much faster. The best part of this shawl is not being able to get bored- you do the basketweave for 1/3 of the shawl, and then the rest is random cherry blossoms! Every row will be a bit different, and of course it's a stole, so the rows remain a consistent length. It's a really well-written pattern.
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