Tomorrow is World Wide Knit in Public Day! I knit in public all the time, but tomorrow I will be doing it On Purpose.

Great Gran had been working merrily along on her FBS, when she hit a snag on row 27. One half of the pattern kept coming out wrong. Which made NO sense because the row before row 27 (row 25) came out fine. She had unknit and reknit and backed up many rows before hitting the “I hate this, I will never knit anything but garter stitch scarves ever again for all of my life” point. We’ve all been there.

I brought it home with me because sometimes it helps to not hate the shawl that you are trying to fix (I haven’t touched my own FBS in two solid days). I figured out what was wrong (a missing YO – it’s always one stupid missing YO), fixed it and spent the next 45 minutes knitting one half of row 35 completely wrong. Over and over again I did it wrong in exactly the same way. Until I was at the “I hate this, I will never knit anything but garter stitch scarves ever again for all of my life” point. We’ve all been there.

Stupid shawl. It’s lucky for you that you smell of grapely deliciousness.

Mom would like me to tell you that she now has 200 and something (I can’t remember exactly, I was busy crying about row 35) stitches on her FBS. She would like to point out that she is winning again. Nyah Nyah.

I have started my June sock. M has been sad that he hasn’t had any new socks lately, so June’s socks are for him. I let him pick the blue yarn.

Hill Country Yarns, Instant Gratification in “Scholar.”

So it’s not BLUEblue. It’s navy. And gold. And brown. That counts, right? I’ve already pulled out the leg three times trying to find a stitch pattern that I like with the yarn. Whee!

Lastly, when we were up in DC the other weekend, we went in one of the Stitch DC locations. There were two shells made up that I was interested in, but the Yarn Girl on Duty didn’t know what books they belonged to. I’m hoping that one of y’all does.

I am especially interested in the one on the left. I suspect that Jeager is somehow involved.

Update: The shell on the right is from Jaeger JB34. It’s the one called “Hazel.”
The shell on the left is from Jaeger JB39. I’m going to leave off the belt.
Thank you kind strangers! I am off to place a pattern order!

Team Miracle

“You know, when I first heard about The Amazing Lace, I was all like, ‘Hey that sounds like a lot of fun and I’ll get to see the world.’ And then I met my teammates. They’re great – really great. I love them to death. . . Except that there are just so many of them. Know what I mean? And I can’t tell them apart. I guess I’ll have plenty of time to get to know them all better, huh?” [chuckling and rolling her eyes]

“The pattern? Oh yeah, I had to work that out for myself. My teammates were no help at all. They just sat around and let me do all the work. I’m all, ‘Hey, what do y’all think of this?’ but it’s like they don’t want to be involved. We just don’t have the kind of communication that I really think we need. I hope this doesn’t become a problem later on – everyone needs to pull their own weight. We’ve got to make 146 squares together or something insane like that. I just want to give it my best effort and have a good time, you know? I hope those cones of yarn don’t get in the way.”

— Emily Ivey, during an interview Sunday afternoon

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— A press release from the 14 cones of Lily Sugar’n Cream. We were unable to reach their spokesperson for further comment.