Category: Knittastic!

I stayed up last night and finished the last two rows of the Charlotte’s Web. Looking at it this morning, I think that I should have made the last purl row the bind-off (cast-off?) row because I’m afraid their won’t be enough yarn left for the three rows of single crochet trim. So now I’m going to tink it tonight and make it the bind-off row. I’m going to take it to the Guild meeting to see if any of the knitting gurus there have suggestions on the best bind-off to use.

My mood seems to have lifted from where it was on Monday. Maybe it was the weather, or allergies (the mold count is really high), hormones or just stress. Whatever it was, I’m glad it has passed. Knitting last night helped, I’m sure. For me, knitting is like yoga for the mind.

Pictures of the Charlotte’s Web later on, if I can figure out where I hid the card reader thingie.

Just two more rows on my Charlotte’s Web Shawl. Two long rows. Then I have to bind off, but I have no idea what is a good bind off to use on lace like this. Then – the scary part. I have to crochet. 3 rows. Before I can add the fringe.

One problem. My right hand has hurt for weeks – bad enough that I’m *thisclose* to calling the doctor tomorrow. I slipped and fell while at the Frio a few weeks ago. I thought nothing of it at the time, but it has hurt since then. It hurts to lift a glass full of ice water. I can barely hold a pen. How on earth will I crochet 3 rows?

I think I’ll have to beg my Mom to hook me up. Get it? Hook me up? Oh, I’m too funny.

Two more rows. I hate to go to bed without finishing it – plus I want to show it off at the Guild meeting tomorrow night. I think I just might have to stay up a little while longer.

Smart needles for distracted knitters:

“Rebecca Spender´s KnitWit are smart needles that keep track of the number of stitches you’ve already done. Movement sensors in the ends record the movement of the needles. This data is streamed via RF to a remote base station which decodes the signal, looking for a specific series of movements which correlate to the formation of a stitch. When a “stitch” is recognised, the LCD counter increments.

In a similar way the interaction between the two needles is used to determine when one row has been finished and another started and thus the rows counter increments too.”

Via Katie, who e-mails me all the cool knitting stuff she finds which make her think of me.

More posts with life updates and things like that later. For now, I need to go and knit. With regular needles, not smart ones.