22 Jan 2017: FINALLY had time to sit down and Kitchener this. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! So squishy and warm and squishy. And buttery. And squishy.

I completed 12 repeats in all. It is long enough to loop twice (it’s fairly snug—though not strangling—looped twice, but I like it that way).

30 Dec 2016: The first skein got me through six full repeats plus five more right to left curls on the seventh repeat. Note that this is with a reduced number of CO stitches (36 instead of 42).

26 Dec 2016: New addi Turbo Lace needles arrived. The brass tips are definitely helpful! This is knitting up fast and squishy and glorious.

22 Dec 2016: It’s probably lucky that “Santa’s elves” were wrapping presents late last night instead of knitting this, because it meant less frogging this morning. I totally missed that you do two four rows all the way across after a complete row of curls (I’d only done two), so I only had to frog five curls to get back and fix that. I will work to avoid having to frog any more, because the alpaca (which is oh-so-buttery) does not like frogging.

The backwards knitting is getting a bit faster, though I’m thinking about ordering some addi Lace fixed circulars so I can have the grippy brass tips. I think that might help here.

20 Dec 2016: CO 36 using Åsa Tricosa’s winding (provisional) cast on. Planning to make this longer than the pattern specifies; hoping to get it to loop twice (if I have enough yarn). Working on learning how to knit backward (this tutorial was my starting point, though it became just a matter of visualizing how the needle would move if I were holding it turned).

A note on yarn color:
It looks like maybe they reused a number for a different colorway? My yarn is definitely a charcoal gray—NOT brown in any way—though the stash photo of the unwound yarn looks a bit brown. The project photo here is pretty accurate.

New stuff:
On this project, I learned…

1. How to knit backwards.