Lanam Facio

I'm going to be switching the blog over to different software, which makes me use a new address: http://web.me.com/nikandre/lanamfacio/blog/



It’s been a long and frustrating day, so this seems to be thematic. I had gotten so excited about the Nutria/Nubia. I was picturing it keeping me all nice and cozy, and worked busily on it as my mom drove us back from Rhinebeck. Then, disaster struck. The right hand needle is pointing to the dropped stitch. I merrily started picking it up, weaving it back up through the garter. I then realized I’d shortrowed. To make a long story short, as Venus said to Aeneas, I ended up ripping out the six inches (full five percent!) I’d knit so happily. This is in timeout, and I’m working on my brown hoodless hoodie. It’s amazing how much more quickly progress becomes visible when one is working in worsted weight.

That is the nubia (the 1860s scarf) that I'm making. It will end up being nine feet long if all (for once) goes according to plan. It'll only be 77 stitches wide; the nine hundred some are the yards in the first hank.





I had a long and complicated dream in which I was knitting it and not making any progress.
I'm going to be switching the blog over to new software, which makes me use a new address: http://web.me.com/nikandre/lanamfacio/blog/

I've been double posting over there for a while to make sure the software works. I'll keep both up until the end of October, but then only the new one will be updated.

Note to self: when casting on with 903 yards of cobweb wool, especially when the end of said wool has been knit and raveled, untangle first, then cast on. The other order is far more difficult.