Flirty Ruffles
I can’t believe I am finally done with the ruffles! They just seemed to take forever, but thanks to Project Runway I finally slogged my way through them and now I only have the ends to weave in and the blocking to do before I can officially declare this a Finished Object.
I’m at that place when I finish a project and I end up feeling a little lost. Kind of like how I imagine Bo Peep must feel like without her sheep. I’m a knitter without a project. I know I still have the Shaped Triangle to work on, but it’s more of a UFO then anything else and I’m not at a comfortable place with it. If there’s one thing knitting is to me, it’s that it’s a comfort.
So when I’m without a project I tend to look around quickly for another project to quickly fill that empty space. I’ve decided to cast on the Hidcote Garden Shawl by MimKnits. I’ve also decided to use Jaggerspun Zephyr in Sage. The Mountain Peaks Shawl was also high on my list of shawls to knit next, but I wanted to work with the pretty Sage colour and the mountains need to be knit in brown.
I was originally going to start on the Rose Of England, but the ruffles, people! The ruffles have melted my brain! All that k15, p15, k15, p15, ad nauseum infiniti. So I just can’t deal with fiddly DPN’s and heavy circular knitting and and.. all that. Okay. Moment of hysteria has passed.
I’m still planning on finishing the Shaped Triangle, but I figure I can work on Hidcote while the television set is being used to broadcast baseball games. I’m not a particularly avid baseball fan. I like a lot of high paced action and baseball is not that kind of game. So it’s perfect time for me to work on something that requires a little bit of concentration and I’m hoping that the Hidcote will require that of me.
I hope you all have a very serene weekend and be careful of ruffles. For they are everywhere and they are evil. I’m just saying.
