So far I’m about to complete my 2nd ball of laceweight Icelandic wool on my Pi Shawl from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac. I’ve knit to the point that I’ve increased the final time to 576 stitches around and knit 9 rounds so far on that many stitches. I’ve mapped out the shawl in my planner and seem to come up with 45 rounds instead of the 48 I would expect. After that comes the knitted on border that will be slow and painful I’m sure, being that you have to knit a row for every stitch you bind off.
Contemplating that I would need a longer needle once I doubled the stitches from 288 to 576, I bought a Kollage square soft needle from Paradise Fibers. It is a dud for this project because the yarn is firm and the needle cable is soft. I might use it on the silk/mohair yarn but it’s no match for the Icelandic wool. I put the project back on my Denise needles after a round or maybe 2. I was afraid that I would tug too hard to move the stitches and pull the needle right off the cable and end up with a $20 piece of trash.
I haven’t been doing much spinning this weekend or week thus far. Maybe tomorrow and definitely when I have the day off on Wednesday I will try to finish spinning my 2nd bobbin of singles to attempt to ply. My time on the School of SweetGeorgia is counting down and I am stuck at the homework right now.
I had to rejoin Twitter because my favorite YouTuber for knitting gave up YouTube. My favorite YouTuber for writing/notebook hoarding is my age which I was shocked to discover. It’s been a random week already.
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