The final version of Shallal is knit and finished, but still needs photography. I've made progress on the baptismal gown sleeves, though. I figured out the stitch count for the yarn I am using and how many repeats to work, and now I'm more than halfway through the first one. Oh, and I started Amelia's Saint Nicholas stocking.

There are a few other projects on needles, and a couple on hooks, for grandbabies and Christmas and so on. I've accidentally taken a break from design knitting, but that is because I have one that was giving me trouble that I need to fix and another that is almost finished, but I don't want to pick it up until I finish the problem child.

So, basically I am trying to decide if I should put all the designs on the back burner and work on some of the Christmas projects, especially since I haven't taken my sabbatical months this year the way I normally do, and there are some people whose gifts might be deliverable in person over Thanksgiving, or if I should knuckle down and at least get the problem child finished and edited so I can publish it this year and finish a collection that has been open a little too long. I also have another stocking to knit, and want to get that finished. Though that is for Old Calendar family, which gives me an extra 13 days!

That brings me to the other design project I'd like to have finished: The Pascha basket cover design. 2025 is the next time East and West celebrate the Paschal feast together, and the one after that isn't until 2028. I wanted to make it a knit along, and have it start during Clean Week and end at Lazarus Saturday, with Holy Week and Bright Week being when people can share their pictures and so on of their finished covers. If I don't work on it for 2025, it will go on the back burner for another two and a half years, at least. What say ye?

My goal is for us to finish Emma before Thanksgiving. I really thought we could finish before the end of the month, but life keeps throwing stuff at us that makes our time more compressed. Normally, when we are reading something like this, we read three to four chapters at a shot, and lately it's been more like one or two. Deck the Donuts is still my brain candy reading, and I like it, but even that has been a little more time than I could take recently. It should be finished by my next Craft On post.

Hooray! I was able to pick up Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages and read a little more. Again, I don't agree with all of her conclusions, but her information is fascinating, and the history she gives is fantastic.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 5:05 PM