So after setting her aside for a bit in order to finish the Christmas gift knitting, Titania is back in action. She wasn’t quite to the halfway point before the season started, so she’s fully in the running this season. After a pretty rough start which engendered lots of grumbling, I’ve gotten the hang of the pattern and it’s wending its way along smoothly now. I’m in the last chart before the border, but I may decide to do another repeat of the pattern before then. It seems a bit short to me as it is. I kind of suspected this would happen when I was looking at the finished project, because it seemed a bit short in the pictures. We’ll see how long it is when I finish this chart.
The other current project on the needles is Dem Fisher Sin Fru. Yes, this is an ANCIENT mystery knit. It’s taken me forever mostly because of the yarn I chose. It’s a lovely 100% alpaca, but it’s also dental floss thin. Even using tiny needles the stitch is looser than I usually work, but I’ve decided with this yarn that’s just the way it should be. Unfortunately my fingers tend to complain using the tiny needles, so I can only do one set of knit/purl rows before I need a break. I’m about 50 rows from the end now, so there is a small possibility I’ll finish this by the end of the season. I ended up changing the border on this pattern. After looking at a ton of finished pictures on ravelry, I decided I just didn’t like the way the border looked. This seems to be a recurring theme with this designer. I love her patterns, but there is usually some part of the pattern I feel compelled to change. Either that or it’s a disease I’m catching from shadowdancer who has a hard time knitting ANY pattern exactly as written!
I also hope to be casting on something new this season, but haven’t quite decided what yet. More on that when I finally make a decision!
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From the way you describe it, I’m pretty sure you’ve somehow gotten a hold of my Dem Fisher and are knitting away on it! Mine is alpaca, dark green and very thin yarn. It’s getting frogged as part of ravelympics this year. I don’t care if I’m on clue 5, I’m tired of it and it’s GOING AWAY!
Wait, we’re supposed to follow the pattern exactly? Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing wrong. The only time I followed a pattern exactly was my first sock, which was one of wendyknits “design your own” sock patterns.