Day Thirty-Eight

I want to share the pattern for the pineapple border with you (for those of you that understand).

Day Thirty-Eight knitting time...3 hours

Total knitting time...97.5 hours

Day Thirty-Seven

Happy Easter!

I didn't get to work much on the shawl yesterday. My uncle is in the hospital here and I visited him a couple of times.  Then I went to the Easter Vigil mass last night.

I had forgotten that the reason I put the work away on Friday was because I accidentally pulled the needles out of about 20 stitches.  Yesterday it took me about an hour or so to get everything back on the needles correctly.  After that...

Day Thirty-Seven knitting time...1 hour

Total knitting time...94.5 hours

Day Thirty-Six

Here are pictures of the work as it looks today.  If you look at the top of the bottom picture, around the purple marker, you can see the start of the pineapple.  The ocean waves in the edging are fairly plain to see.

Day Thirty-Six knitting time... 1.5 hours

Total knitting time...93.5 hours

Day Thirty-Five

Day Thirty-Five knitting time...6.5 hours

Total knitting time...92 hours

About time for another picture.  I need to remember to do that soon.

Day Thirty-Four

Today for the first time in a while, I was able to sit and knit for a good part of the day.  The downside of this is I got so engrossed that by the end of the day, I realized that I had forgotten to call Rebekah to wish her happy birthday.  So, Happy Birthday!

Day Thirty-Four knitting time...6 hours

Total knitting time...85.5 hours

Day Thirty-Three

Day Thirty-Three knitting time...1.5 hours

Total knitting time...79.5 hours

Day Thirty-Two

Oh, man! I am back on track. I must admit I've been purposefully avoiding working on the shawl because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get it figured out.  But, today, I spent about two hours unknitting the last round to get back to a place I was pretty sure was correct.  Then I re-knit that row and then the row that caused me SO much trouble.  The pattern repeat is 28 stitches.  In the beginning I had used markers to mark the beginning of each repeat.  I got to the point where they seemed to be in the way so I took them out and that's when I got confused.  So I put them back in and it makes all the difference.  If I had to make one suggestion to anyone attempting lace knitting, it would be to place markers at the beginning of each repeat.  It's much easier to focus on where there might be a problem. I'm excited to be back in the flow.

Day Thirty-Two knitting time...2 hours

Total knitting time...78 hours

PS. I didn't count the time spent unknitting toward the knitting time because I want to only count time actually spent in creating the project.