Tiny Progress

Whew.

I feel much better now. It helped that I spent Friday night thwacking balls around at the driving range -- I'd never done that before. I'm pretty terrible, but it felt good, ya know?

And despite a busy weekend, I managed to do a little bit of knitting-related things. I finally blocked out the diamond baby blanket. I know it's not lace, but I have to say I was pretty amazed at the way the blanket went from this:

to this:

And another view of the diamonds:

It's reversible, which I think makes for a good blanket. And after blocked, the Cotton Fleece softened up even more, and is a lovely light weight. [Boyfriend quickly asked for a similar one for our queen-sized bed. Uh. NO. We'll be buying that, thanks, lest I go insane.] Anyway, it's nice to have this blanket ready for the gifting and officially knocked off the "On the Needles" list.

And you'll notice some interlopers on the blocking board too. Those would be swatches of the Artfibers Sherlock, Phildar Phil Laine, and Tahki Davos. All of them yielded unexpected gauges. I am now perplexed as to what they want to be, but we'll see. I am confident they'll tell me in time.

Little Knitting

I've been doing little knitting on little needles. First, the second retro rib sock, now starring on two needles, grew by several pattern repeats.

It's not exciting, I know, but I feel like I'm getting into the groove of this two-needle thing.

And then I went ahead and started knitting on the garter:

This pattern is called "The Queen's Edging" from the 2nd Barbara Walker Stitch Treasury that I bought last week. I'm doing it in Jaeger Siena. I love the way it looked in the book's picture... in person, I'm not so sure. The little shell-shapes at the bottom have a bit of a "puff" that I'm not sure I like.

I'm going to keep doing it because it's good practice (look, I'm finally in the summer of lace!) and also because it goes pretty quickly. There's another pattern that I might try as well, to see if I like it better. I'm still hoping this one works, though.

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Final note: Comcast DID come on Friday, 5 minutes early in fact, and installed the DVR. Now will it work? Today's the first test....