19 Apr
I have learned how to do short rows! Whee! That’s actually the reason I ultimately decided to do this pattern (well, that and I needed a rug for the bathroom that matches the bathmats instead of the olive one I have in there now). I was anticipating mega-issues with the short-rows but it’s been pretty easy. The stitches are a bit more gapey than normal but only by just a hair so I’m cool with it.

24 Apr
Oops! I just noticed that many rows (and one corner) back that I managed to insert a purl row so I have three knit rows showing on the right side instead of knit purl knit. I’m going to embrace the “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”^* nature of beauty and rename this project instead of ripping back.

27 Apr
One skein down, three more to go (or until the mat is big enough). I will confess: I find this a boring knit. The rows are too short to get into a nice meditative mindset on knit, knit, knit before I have to turn, disrupting any potential zoning. The corners kind of make up for it though since I have to focus fully on it. But as the mat gets larger, the corners come fewer and farther between. Are we there yet?

13 Sep
Wow, this has taken forever. But that’s mostly because I only work on this in between other, more fun projects. But now it is done with a nice icord edge all around it and is blocking. Whee!