05-06-2020

C1: Calmer
C2: handspun

The Calmer is only 175 yds and the handspun is a complete mystery, so I’m going to attempt a smaller version of the pattern.

Garter section: Inc to 34sts.

05-07-2020

Finished repeat #1 of Mosaic Chart 1.
Finished repeat #2 of Mosaic Chart 1.
Finished repeat #3 of Mosaic Chart 1. (70sts)

05-11-2020

Well dang, I am definitely going to run out of black yarn. Of course it’s discontinued, and now doesn’t feel like the time to order yarn from randos on the internet. Frogged back to 11sts & starting the mosaic pattern there.

Finished repeats #1 & #2 of Mosaic Chart 1.

05-12-2020

Finished repeat #3 of Mosaic Chart 1.

Finished repeat #1 of Mosaic Chart 2.

05-13-2020

Finished repeat #2 of Mosaic Chart 2.
Finished last repeat of Rows 1-12 of Mosaic Chart 2, and I’m 2-3 rows’ worth of handspun away from where I ripped back to on the first attempt.

05-14-2020

Finished Rows 13-24 of Mosaic Chart 3.
Worked Rows 1-12 of repeat #1 of Mosaic Chart 3.

05-15-2020

Finished repeat #1 of Mosaic Chart 3, and caught up to where I’d gotten to with the Calmer on the first attempt.

05-18-2020

Finished repeat #2 of Mosaic Chart 3. Had enough of the Calmer left to do an extra two rows to bracket the colorwork section. (Had about ten feet left over!) The thickness of the handspun varies too much for me to want to use it for lace, so I’m just going to do garter rows until I run out of it.

05-24-2020

Finished 50 rows of garter-stitch (maintaining edge increases/decreases). Pretty sure I can’t squeeze two more rows out of the handspun, so it’s time to bind off without playing yarn chicken.

Okay, I lied; I worked one more pattern row so that the stitches of my fave k2togtbl BO would lean the same direction as the slipped-stitch edge. (132sts)

It’s done, and now I can start reading the new Hunger Games book! I haven’t hoarded a new book like that since Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out while I was in the middle of finals, lol.