Casting On – Take Two

Yesterday, I was determined to decide on a yarn for Echo Flower.

Instead, I seem to have found a pattern for the yarn (Bambu by Blue Moon Fiber Arts (a sponsor in previous seasons))  that I’d thought was going to be Echo Flower. Ravelry, that delicious time suck, revealed the Wings of Peace Pattern (for non-Ravelers, look here).  I rather like the way it drapes, and it claims that it can be done with the yardage I have.

I embark on this project with a bit of trepidation.  Basically, I’m afraid of two thigns.

1) that I’ll wind up being myself and changing the last half of it (it gets very simple at the end); and

2) that I’ll go insane trying to knit without a chart.

Who knew?  I learned to knit without charts.  I even learned to knit lace without charts.  Then,  I learned how to read charts, and now I can’t seem to read a lace (hmm, or cable or color)  pattern that’s just, you know,  written out …without going insane!  I’m pretending, for now, that I’m not going to chart this puppy.  I mean, c’mon, it starts with 77 stitches, and gets BIGGER.  We’ll see how long that lasts. (mumbling under breath ‘I will not chart, I will not chart).

Meanwhile, here are more signs that I’m not myself.

Do you see all those markers?  I mean seriously! Who is knitting this thing anyway?

Since when do I put markers in every dozen stitches?  Since I keep losing track of how many repeats of the pattern I’ve done, that’s since when.

But I do think that this pattern agrees with the yarn more than the Echo Flower did.

(sorry it’s so pale).