Restless Knitter

I’m still knitting on the shawl. I have the edging attached to one side and I’ve just turned the corner on one end.

I screwed up a tad. I started attaching the edge one row later than I should have. Like, I was supposed to attach it starting at row 5 and I started it at row 6, or whatever the rows were. At the corners, you’re supposed to do a specific number of double joins and triple joins. With my goof, i have one less triple join on the long side and one more triple join on the short side. This really irritates me. I don’t know if it will make a difference in the grand scheme of things but i do know I’m not ripping out the whole edge and starting over. The corners will just have to be off and I’ll do what I can with blocking.

People, I have boxed up almost all of my knit type stuff and I would be so embarrassed to admit how many boxes it’s actually taken. The only things I’ve kept out are a couple of lace weight yarns and The Book. Or so I thought. I forgot about the small box of Koigu, a few balls of wool for headbands, and the sock that I stopped working on after getting obsessed with The Book. Then I remembered the yarn in those bags beside my seat. And there’s yarn down by the computer. And there’s a huge bag of Cotton Ease in the basement. And a few books on the kitchen table. (Cotton Ease is back by the way, in new colors. Also, you can now buy pink cords for Denise needles. Thought I’d pass that on in case you hadn’t heard.) Just when I think I have it all under control, I find more knit stuff that can be boxed up. I seriously have way too much stuff. Now if I were smart, I’d use all that yarn as packing material for breakables but there’s this weird (ocd?) side of me that wants like items to be in seperate boxes.

Now I’m going to complain about a non-knitterly thing
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