We're moving! Everything gets packed.
The other day all the knitting said goodbye to the light of day.
The sad part of this story is that the knitting is going to live in these containers when we move. We will have slightly less storage space and space overall. So my lovely shelf, upon which all the yarn didn't fit anyways, will now be used for linens and the yarn is going to live in the dark, under the bed.
At least it will have the knitting machine for company. And sometimes the cat. He likes to sleep under the bed.
Happily, I found a project that I had hidden at the bottom of a project basket. It is Galadriel's Mirror by Susan Pandorf.
This project has been in progress for two years. It is an exquisite design ... But unhappily for the tendonitis knitter it involves twisted stitches, wrapped stitches, and bobbles/nupps. Both twisted stitches and bobbles/nupps require working on the wrong side as well. If you don't twist the twisted stitches on the WS too they look funny. But bobbles are tedious. But I cheated and did nupps, which create five new stitches in one. And then on the WS you purl all five stitches together creating a lovely rosette looking bobble. And I cheat further and use a crochet hook to gather the nupp stitches which make them lean left instead of turning into a rosette. But at least my hands aren't so badly abused.
Also, never ... Never ever use any sort of cotton blend for a large complicated shawl if you have terrible hands problems. Never ever. That is half the reason this shawl was difficult. The yarn has no bouncy give. Nothing. But it does look smashing in person. Lovely cotton/silk blend of Lyndon hills Bristol yarn gallery in grey. Lovely in person.
My hands were mostly abused when doing the main body. Which is why this lovely shawl has been sitting in the bottom of a basket for a solid year. Poor thing. It is now in the light of day, and I've finally reached the knit and purl edge section that occasionally has knit togethers and yarn overs for shaping. Moving along slowly, but ... This year ... This year it can be done.
So, fair warning. Go slow tendonitis knitters. Use stitch markers. And most important ... Do not shame yourself, feel badly, or bemoan those projects that languish under the basket of other pretties. Sometimes they just need a bit of time to percolate, and think about how badly the non-springy yarn treated your hands.
Be excellent to each other!
