Part Two will be silly sheeps jumping and playing and chasing cats - for those who "ain't so much into knitting" pics even if it did snow last night so they look super Iditarod-y ;-).
I expected a slow start, but wasn't expecting THIS slow of a start. However, in the more important part of the program, I've learned a new cast on - garter tab - which for several hours I thought I was just completely stupid and should give up knitting, but in googling to see if the designer had an instructional video by any chance, I found that LOTS of people struggle with this. Whew!
Once I figured out what it was called, I was then able to google how to do it and found several helpful video tutorials and I can pretty safely say I've got it down. Then I struggled with how tight the edge was coming out and re-knit that a few times and I'm still a bit concerned about that, but at this point I think the edge is okay, it's the sloppy stockinette stitches inside that are the problem. I've tightened that up a little and hopefully I'm okay knitting on.
It's definitely going to be a challenge, but pretty so far I think.
On to the catching up part. Yep, this was Saturday. Sunny, in the 50s. I'd spun late into Friday night to get my singles done so they could rest on the bobbins before plying on Saturday. I had my usual plying problems, but finally got it figured out. Thin white yarn is hard to see. I'm moderately happy with my spinning, but definitely need to spin more to get better.
I guessed at the yardage and hoped I'd have enough. Even though I can obviously spin more as needed, in my head I like to have all my yarn spun up front. This probably stems from worry about inconsistency, also a situation where spending more time spinning would help. Anyway, as I wound off my skein, I had 430 yards. The pattern called for 420. I'm taking that as good Iknitarod juju :-D.
Look how Keebler's curls reappeared after washing. Wool is so neat. Oh, and for those of you who are thinking "I thought she said she was knitting a Buddy shawl." I decided that if I'm knitting something fiddly and complicated, that would be Keebler, not Buddy. And, I have to say, if Buddy and I were trying to battle that cast on, we'd have both ended up sitting on the couch with our tissue box and a big bag of Rolos ;-).
Ready to go...I thought.
I should have worked that 2 stitch (yes, 2 stitches...sigh) cast on before I left the Wool House Saturday night so 20 could have helped. kbdoolin probably wishes I had as well ;-).
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