Wednesday, Aug 8

• BO complete!
• Blocked the everlasting snot out of it.
• 78” x 12” after blocking.
• 52” x 10” before blocking.
• 22g leftover

Tuesday, Aug 7

Weekend in Newport makes for productive knitting:

• Completed Rows 4-12 (again).
• Completed Rows 13-14, safely past the previous frog point.
• Completed Rows 15-16 on the car-ride home today.
• Completed Rows 17-19 before dinner.
• Completed Row 20 (final) after dinner. (Tipsy, but no OOPS!)

Began bindoff:

• Using a US 7 (4.5mm)
• Pattern calls for a p2tog BO but I don’t want the edges to curl so I’m doing a k1, *k1, k2togtbl* instead.

Thursday, Aug 2

Was on row 12 of the edging when I decided all those rows looked like a dog’s breakfast and ripped back to the pick-up. Babycakes here almost lost project-bag status, but I chose mercy, and picked up the stitches, powered through the increase and finished with a knit row. Now we’re ready for lace. (Row 4, some 395 stitches. Kill me now.)

Monday, July 16

• With only a few mishaps, completed the garter-stitch body.
• Not counting the set-up and finishing rows, 188 rows to increase, 184 to decrease.
• Picked up 199 stitches and completed first row of lace section.

Monday, July 9

• Cast-on and completed some 52 increase rows.
• The rows are small and increase by one stitch every four.
• By the next day I blew past 100.

In Closing:

• My remaining yarn weighed 31g before starting Row 17 (WS), to be followed by the final lace row, 18. I was trying to figure out how to add one more lace row after Row 19 (k2, *p*, k2) to use up more of the skein, but couldn’t quite work it out, so I’ll have some pesky leftovers. This pattern would benefit from an auxiliary chart and adjustment possibilities.

• Used ChiaGoo Red Lace (stainless steel) US 5 fixed circulars. Some slippage, but less than I’d have thought. Not quite as sharp as I’d like where k2togs are concerned. Smooth sailing otherwise.