News — #LIL

I wasn't expecting the power to go out in my town; we expected a lot of rain, but not much wind.  We only received 7" of rain (yes, "only;"), and not much wind, and the power went out anyway, for 26 hours. Once it was clear we were in power-outage mode, I flipped into, "What are the things I need to do that don't require electricity?"  Swatching the lace hearts design for the final ring of #LIL came to mind right away. The pattern called for seven hearts in the outer ring, bringing the total of large hearts to 49,...

I'm knitting ring 7, with 24 hearts.  Longmire's back on Netflix!  Made a lot of progress Sunday evening...  This gold mohair blends better than I thought it might and it's way easier to live with than sunny yellow.   When this ring is  done, the shawl will have 42 hearts, and it needs 49.  Donna Druchunas has written an intarsia ring for the final 7 hearts, spaced out with honeycomb in the dark yarn. I don't like intarsia.  53 people were injured, in addition to the 49 killed.  I have some room to do something different: 576 stitches in these...

September 19, 2016 Need to write a different post about packing for a motorcycle trip overnight; doubled my space when John said I could take a backpack and bungee it to the sissy bar.  Regardless, I was going to carry my knitting.  Wound off enough black to knit two rounds; hoped to make it into the next hearts round.  Ran out of navy, and time, before I finished the Feathers and Fan round.   That's a 2016 Indian Chief Dark Horse. September 13, 2016 Have a chance to post today; don't expect to get much knitting completed until sometime next week. ...