The "Hole" Truth

Well, my Laminaria shawl will be going into the time out corner with the rest of the UFO’s for a while. Last night I was moving my lifeline for the next section of the pattern. I checked very carefully to make sure all the stitches were correct before removing the lifeline. But to my surprise, when I was putting the lifeline back in just over this spot, the huge gaping hole you see in the photo formed right before my eyes. This tells me that I must have knit that stitch right into my lifeline so that when I pulled out the lifeline, I also pulled out the stitch. As Homer Simpson would say, DOPE!

If you have been following this project then you know that I have frogged this shawl several times already and once all the way back to the beginning. With out a live line that is what I would have to do again, all the way back to the beginning and I am not willing to go through all that work again just now, so the Laminaria shawl will be laid to rest for an undisclosed period of time.

Maybe I can do some research on how to fix mistakes, can you fix lace mistakes? A girl can dream can’t she?

Laminaria in The Frog Pond

The center of this picture shows a little mistake in the Laminaria Shawl. There are three single stitches smack dab in the middle of 3-1 combinations. This means all the rest of the stitches to the left of the boo boo are in the wrong places. Frogging is a must, Boo Hoo :( My lifeline is 4 rows back.
What I learned? To move my lifeline more often :)

Change Is Good

The photo above is the re-do of the Laminaria shawl project. It's a bad picture I know but if you can see it, the left and right sides are now symmetrical and I am very happy with the results of the changes I made in the pattern and the needle size change.

In this second photo you can now see how the pattern shows up nicely when stretched out. I love this project and am enjoying it immensely.

DANIELLE'S HEALING

The photo below is showing how brave my daughter is. That's her on the left with the splint on the right foot, she doesn't like her picture taken so she flung her head around when she noticed my friend's (right), husband with the camera in his hand.

I say brave because she was trying to hop down the hallway on the good foot to the restroom by herself without the splints on her two arms that have not fully healed yet. My friend Kathy on the right ran to her aid. Danielle is healing is nicely and has a wonderful sense of humor about the whole thing.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for her during this trying time.

Laminaria Progress

The photo posted here is of the progress on Laminaria shawl I previously blogged about and it will be frogged because I don’t like the fact that the left and right sides don’t match. If you look closely you can that the stitches on the right side of the spine are horizontal while the stitched on the left side are vertical. The pattern calls for a 3 into 3 stitch which is [k3tog, yo, k the same 3tog] all the way across. But as you can see the effect is different on either side of the spine. So instead of the 3 into 3 stitch as the pattern states on the set-up and star charts, I will try the sssk on the left side of the spine only and that should make the left side a mirror image of the right. I will also be going up one needle size to a 6 instead of the 5 the pattern calls for because I chose a colorful yarn I think the lace pattern will show up better if it’s a little larger. Hopefully it won’t make it too large.