Current project, a mystery knit along from a pattern by Knitting Delight, currently available for free from the yahoogroup or here for the ravelry. The pattern is nicely charted, clear to read and no mistakes.

It’s knit sideways so casting on is a little harsh. I’m managing to keep up with the clues, just, but that’s going to get more awkward as it gets bigger and not so easy to stick in my bag. There are 17 repeats in a row, so I’m deeply grateful for stitchmarkers that help me tell when I’m going incredibly wrong. Finishing 2 stitches early on a repeat is rarely a good sign.

I also ended up getting some addi lace needles. The regular addi needles were awful to use with this– just too blunt with yarn that fine.

I was having severe problems with muscle-memory on the last few rows of this round. Even with patterns with rows that don’t repeat, there are still certain tendencies– yok2tog on that side, yossk on the other side- and habits of the pattern. Normally, it’s good to get a feel of these, but the last few rows broke the established tendencies and were asymmetric on the repeats , like it’d be yo,k3, yo s1-k2tog-psso on one half, then yossk,k2, yo, 2tog on the other half.

I’m pretty curious what the next section’s going to be like, even if my poor wrists are less than keen on starting it.

It’s been so long since I posted anything to this blog. So about time, right?

This, by the way, is the most recent project I’ve finished. The pattern is from Sidar, to use with their baby bamboo (great yarn), but I had some baby cashmerino so…

I’m very happy (and deeply relieved!) with the way it turned out. I like cabelling to knit, but the yarns are very different –cashmerino is soft and springy, bamboo is slippery and drapey- but it’s ended up being the right size. I still want to block it, just to make it that little bit neater, and find some buttons but it’s pretty much done.