Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Craft On: Much Progress!
After starting and restarting the bear paw mittens over four times, I finally got a grip on the sizing and increasing/decreasing. I hope to have them mostly finished by this weekend.
Crossandra is also almost finished. We have a church synod this weekend, and I should have a lot of knitting time there, which will be great for all that i-cord I need to make on the sleeves. It needs to be finished by the end of next week, ends woven in, washed and blocked, all of it, for Amelia's birthday.
Technically, I have begun Saint Catherine. However, I am not happy with the fabric, so I will be restarting it with smaller needles. That will also require recalculating the numbers for all the different sizes, though.
One more reminder, that since I finished Saint Patrick, I am seeking beta knitters. If you are interested in beta knitting this shawl, I would love your help. Please e-mail me for more information.
I'm about 40% through 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet. Since each chapter is a short essay on that one thing we have lost, it is a pretty quick read, and easy to pick up and put down at night. What I appreciate the most is her reasoning behind what we have lost and what it has done now.
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