I am making a dinner which involves too many carbohydrates, but I will get good at this cooking thing one day. I love my crockpot.
More rain today. Luckily, Mr. Baby is quite taken with his boots and if I say “boots” he will immediately scurry to get them. Once he learns to put them on by himself I fear no other shoes will be worn.
Yesterday, I started my first lace project. It is a scarf. The pattern is Fiber Trends “Lacy Accents” (AC-23). I am doing the Diamond Lace variation. The yarn is Brown Sheep cotton fine, color “Putty.”
I have made an error, but I only noticed it recently so I will not attempt tedious frogging or anything drastic. No way could I pick up lace stitches after ripping back at this point in my knitting education. Look in the lower right hand corner, two of the diamonds have eyes. These are the ghosts of the scarf, Halloween is coming. I think I will like lace, but it will be good car knitting or radio listening, NOT good TV knitting. I tried that last night watching a TiVo’ed Gray’s Anatomy, and what with all the drama and meaningful looks I could not concentrate on my yo’s or ssk’s. I use a piece of scratch paper and write the row numbers down the edge:
6: III
7:III
8:II
etc.
and add a hash mark for every row I finish. There must be a more efficient way to do this? It would be good if there was some sort of bracelet or necklace that has beads and numbers and you could slide the bead over for every row. Does this exist? If anyone is reading this, please advise.
The dogs are wilting with hunger.
You could get a counter, like the ones used to keep track of people going into a bar – you know – the kind that turns a number tile every time you click the button…
I found some in the knitting needles section of my local craft store, but I think they are too expensive.
The beads-on-a-string idea might work — just make one yourself.
There IS such a thing! I got one on etsy; there are at least a couple sellers there, but the one I got it from is Hide And Sheep; great stitch markers too. It’s a bracelet where you can slide small beads for rows and a bigger bead for pattern repeats. It’s pretty and way cool!
I don’t want the dogs to faint away in their starved states…
Thank you for the ideas! I checked out Hide and Sheep, I will be returning to that site for some serious shopping
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