I’m having a hard time making time. Waking early and going to bed late haven’t done much to help. In between work, I dye, or maybe I could phrase it better… while I work, I dye.. AND, do laundry.
If I can focus in the evening, and sit a minute, I’ve got Evelyn Clark’s Trellis on the needles. Another lovely pattern. That 7 to 5 stitch thing isn’t bad if you can remember to keep your purl row loose enough. The hardest part is keeping the yo’s in the right order when you purl back across on the following row.
The new Wild Fibers Magazine was in the mail yesterday. Mine is always late. The Bison Tracks shawl, another of Evelyn Clark’s beauties is in it. It isn’t charted. I DO charts, written instructions leave me in the dust. Anyone have it charted out yet? Twenty rows, makes me sweat thinking about all the possibilities for mistakes in transcribing that one.
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Good to know about the Evelyn Clark shawl. I can knit by chart, but when I began her Sheep shawl, I found she had also enclosed the entire written directions. So, I reverted to the old way, reading instructions, and have been truely enjoying it! It’s like being bilingual, functioning just fine in your second language, but suddenly having the opportunity to speak nothing but your first!
All of this is no help to you, though. Sorry I digress.
I love the winning shawl, too.
Not as late as mine! But now I am looking forward to the shawl pattern, so I have something cheerful to wait for today in spite of the fact that it’s snowing here again.
I wonder why they didn’t include charts. It’s so much easier.
http://www.buffalogold.net/
Note that the chart may be posted later on – so there’s hope.
I chart it..otherwise, it takes too long and I put it away. Checking the chart four obsessive times takes less time than written directions.
This gives you the perfect opportunity to try Jacquie’s new charting program:
http://jacquie.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/online_knitting.html