Even though the top Iditarod finishers have made it to Nome, there are still plenty of teams still out on the trail and until that last musher finishes and they extinguish the Red Lantern, the Iknitarod mushes on!
And even though the forecast at the beginning of the race showed no hope for snow here this year, once again I was gifted with a tiny bit. Just enough for a few pictures...before my fingers froze off. More snow and 30 degrees would have been more fun than a dusting at 16, but I'll take any snow at any temperature...if I have to.
In case you saw the Instagram picture from last night and were excited to see me finally off the "river" and into the "interior", don't be too disappointed (or surprised) to find that I've gone back to that checkpoint, swapped out for different runners (needles ;-) and have started over. Sigh...
The section in the back was the original. The swatch in the front is one needle size larger. I decided the larger needle (looser) was better, so took out all the work from last night. It took most of the morning to make decisions and get restarted and then the afternoon got crazy and I've not knit a stitch since. I'm headed out to do evening chores and hoping to hit it hard tonight.
My knitting mascots have been a lot of fun this year :-).
Mushing on and trying to think positive!
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