After two days off marathon knitting

she’s off the needles. Yes, she. Her name is Þórdís (Thordis), she is a friend of mine and she has taught me so much. Someday I will write about all the things I have learnt from her.

 

I am happy to say that the knitting of the lace edging went well. I made hardly any mistakes, unless you count a couple of 600 stitches rows that I knit, and then had to rip out because I was supposed to purl them, a mistake. Or knitting a full 500 stitches row of S1K2togPsso and then to realise that was wrong and redo it (that was a $%&/ to untangle). Or binding off around 700 stitches and then rip that out and bind off again because it was too tight the first time. And a few other small thingies like that. Nope, hardly any mistakes made.

I still got a lot of ends to weave in (10 colours used = many ends) and there is The Blocking. My first real lace blocking. I’m scared.

And then I’ll do some decorative crocheting on the top edge. Or actually I’m not sure if I’m supposed to do that before or after I block. I worry that if I do it before the blocking it won’t stretch enough and if I do it after blocking the shawl will get all wrinkled. I think I might be overthinking this?

Since I started my project 6 pm my time on Friday the 12^th I have to finish before 6 pm Sunday 28th. I want to say I’m fairly sure I’ll make it but I don’t dare, so I’ll  just say I hope I’ll make it (how many I:s do I have?).

Finland got two bronze medals today (technically yesterday). Hooray! These Olympics haven’t gone well for the Finns so I’m happy that today things went well.

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