Boston and Fuzzy Math
Last week I went to Boston for the wedding of one of my knitting friends there, and had a lovely few days visiting with friends, knitting, and eating wedding cupcakes.
On Sunday I even got to visit the yarn store where I used to work, A Good Yarn, and attend my old knitting group, the Knitsmiths!
On the way there, Alexis and I ran into a group of goslings!
On the trip I brought along my long-languishing Hitchhiker, which I shoved in a bag at the tiny size of 5 teeth and abandoned for months. After some knitting at Knitsmiths and on the plane home, it now looks like this:
The marker (which I borrowed from Alexis and accidentally brought home - sorry!) is a few rows beyond where I started knitting at Knitsmiths.
Now here comes the fuzzy math... The pattern suggests that 42 "teeth" would be an appropriate number (anyone who has read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which the shawl is named after, will know why.) So counting up my teeth, I see that I have 14, which would put me at about 1/3 of the way done! Of course if you look at the picture you'll realize that the shawl started out extremely narrow and is getting wider on each row, so this math is obviously not accurate. I know that, but I'm going to pretend. ;)
Also, since my last post, I've completed the Goth Limenade socks I posted about last. The past couple of months have been crazy! In March I went to visit a friend in Atlanta and saw Georgia and Tennessee for the first time, went to a work conference, and went on a retreat with my knitting group to Port Townsend where I managed not to buy any yarn. In April I had a big birthday and went to the Oregon coast for a lovely knitting weekend with a couple of friends. Then it was back to Seattle to have a weekend or two off before my trip to Boston. Now I'm planning to stay home for a good while!
Anyway, the socks:
Yarn: Sweet Sheep in Limenade, overdyed into black stripes by me
Pattern: plain ol' socks
Started: 1/20/12
Finished: 3/16/12
On Sunday I even got to visit the yarn store where I used to work, A Good Yarn, and attend my old knitting group, the Knitsmiths!
On the way there, Alexis and I ran into a group of goslings!
On the trip I brought along my long-languishing Hitchhiker, which I shoved in a bag at the tiny size of 5 teeth and abandoned for months. After some knitting at Knitsmiths and on the plane home, it now looks like this:
The marker (which I borrowed from Alexis and accidentally brought home - sorry!) is a few rows beyond where I started knitting at Knitsmiths.
Now here comes the fuzzy math... The pattern suggests that 42 "teeth" would be an appropriate number (anyone who has read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which the shawl is named after, will know why.) So counting up my teeth, I see that I have 14, which would put me at about 1/3 of the way done! Of course if you look at the picture you'll realize that the shawl started out extremely narrow and is getting wider on each row, so this math is obviously not accurate. I know that, but I'm going to pretend. ;)
Also, since my last post, I've completed the Goth Limenade socks I posted about last. The past couple of months have been crazy! In March I went to visit a friend in Atlanta and saw Georgia and Tennessee for the first time, went to a work conference, and went on a retreat with my knitting group to Port Townsend where I managed not to buy any yarn. In April I had a big birthday and went to the Oregon coast for a lovely knitting weekend with a couple of friends. Then it was back to Seattle to have a weekend or two off before my trip to Boston. Now I'm planning to stay home for a good while!
Anyway, the socks:
Yarn: Sweet Sheep in Limenade, overdyed into black stripes by me
Pattern: plain ol' socks
Started: 1/20/12
Finished: 3/16/12
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