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Hello fellow Knitsters!

It’s been a while since any of us have posted. This is not to say that we are abandoning Knitster.org. Au contraire! It’s called, “We-have-a-busy-life-outside-of-knitting-but-we-squeeze-in-knitting-when-we-can-but-don’t-always-post-about-it.” Or at least, that’s what I call it.

I have been venturing more into challenging myself to do something different. Expand my horizons. Push the envelope. You get the drift. Granted, I’m still nervous about doing some things, and by no means am I any kind of knitting expert, but you don’t learn to do new things unless, well, you do them!

Case in point– I’m trying to do more with lace-type of patterns. I started out with my new sock pattern. The new sock pattern is Columbine Socks by Cat Bordhi in her “Soaks Soar on Two Circular Needles”. I’ve always just done her basic sock, and decided to challenge myself with something that wasn’t the basic sock, so I chose this from her book. Well, it involved me learning how to figure out how to read a lace chart, but I got the hang of it. The problem that I’ve run into is not even the lace part, but rather when I got to the heel flap. I didn’t like how it was going, so I started to frog it, but something went terrible wrong in the process, and I can’t figure it out. Bleeh! My head was spinning the other day trying to figure out where I was in the process, so I decided that I need to put it down for a while.

But before I put this aside for a while, here’s a photo of it so far:

So, in the meantime, I had talked to my fellow black belt and knitter, Becky of Fine Martial Fiber a while ago, and we talked about doing a Knit-Along together, but didn’t decide to start it until now. You may recall that I said that I bought the Mystic Waters pattern (see mention of it before here), and Becky liked the pattern too, so we decided that we’d do it together. I believe she’s still doing it in some lovely shade of blue. I, on the other hand, am doing it in a natural light vanilla color instead. Why like that? Well, not that she reads here, I intend to make it for my future sister-in-law. When I mentioned it to my mother, she felt that my future SIL wouldn’t like it, as she’s not very girly. Well, I think my mother forgets that I’m not the most girly-girl either, and part of the reason I chose this was because it wasn’t some frilly, flowery lace, but still very beautiful and geometric. I think my FSIL will like it.

Here’s a preview, as this is what I started just tonight:

We’ll see how it goes. The pattern really is beautiful, but it looks like a lot of work, as it has chart after chart after chart. After my days of reviewing mind-numbing grant application content, and doing graphics work, you’d think I wouldn’t want to be doing this. Ask me if this is true a little while from now after I’m about two charts into the project.

Lastly, although we didn’t think to get a photo together, there was a mini-Knitster.org reunion. Helen and I were together, albeit briefly, at Helen’s “Not Exactly a Wedding Reception-Reception” at her friend Jen’s house last weekend. I haven’t seen Helen since MDSW, even though we remain in constant touch via the intarweb and the various media options. Next time, we bring the knitting, chickie! It’s always great when we get together, because we have known each other for almost 20 years now (half our life, pretty much!), and she’s the one who got me started on knitting. And blogging. Yeah, it’s all her fault.

And that is our update for today.

Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: Projects