Today is the day to get rid of all my old, outdated electronics. FREE! I am saying good-bye to my 17" Sony monitor...in it's day it was so state-of-the art. What a big piece of junk that is today, taking up space in my closet along with other out-of-date computers and monitors...cell phones that are big and clunky...printers. You name it, I've got it. What a great purge this will be...off to collect the JUNK!!!!
I am reading Elizabeth Zimmerman's - Knit Around. When I can to the chapter on the Pie Are Square Shawl, well naturally, I became fascinated by that technique. So guess what? I am knitting my version. Yesterday I went to my lys and perused the lovely fuzzies. The lace yarn that they featured seemed way too thin. There was a skein of Lorna's Laces, just one, and was the price really high. I didn't purchase it thinking I would have to buy 2 skeins to finish my project. Well....after I got home and did some math calculations, I would have been fine with the yardage in that one skein. I did purchase some lovely yarn that is working out lovely. [less yardage and about the same $ as the Lorna's Laces]. Oh well, next time.
I became confused with the "ridges" versus "rows". I have made a boo-boo at the very beginning and refused to rip it out. So, I am actually missing 6 rows in the second increase. I really hope that it doesn't matter - it really won't be true to the concept. We shall see as time goes by.
Knitting Around...by Elizabeth Zimmerman and her daughter Meg.
I am staying up late, and I mean late...3AM reading a chapter a night and imagining my next project and how to incorporate some of those marvelous techniques into it. Elizabeth was such a talent...drawing, painting and knitting. The digressions in the chapters are so special - I feel like I am reading her diary!
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