...ask my father to drive me to B&N tonight so that I can copy down the next few instructions for the Fir Cone Square Shawl? I own the book the pattern comes from, (Folk Shawls, by Cheryl Oberle) but I left it in the city, never suspecting that I would have so much time to knit during this mini-trip home. Wouldn't that be ridiculous? Wouldn't that be outrageous? Wouldn't that be completely normal behavior for a knitter? If kept away from my yarn and needles for too long, (say, an afternoon) and confronted with a bookstore, I usually make a beeline for the knitting section and spend quality time reading books I already have at home. My father explains this quirk by stating, simply, "She misses them."
The Fir Cone Shawl is constructed by knitting a center panel and then picking up stitches all around it for the inner and outer borders. There are 12.5 repeats needed to make the center panel. I have done 11. Given my usual knitting speed, especially when confronted with relatives who both like to talk and understand my need to be twiddling sticks and string in my fingers at all times, the likelihood is high that I will be stranded without a stitch to do. I could always start something new... I think I just heard an ominous rumble in the distance. It won't stop me, but at least the universe tried.
Some of the relatives have returned! Time to go not pace myself!
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Relatives? Could that have been me returning after being so late and lost? Ikea had called me to it with its potential yarn storage items but alas it was closed. Ok, that was a lie but I do love Ikea. Woot! You got a blog and I am soon getting a new computer to keep up with the blog reading.
Bex (Becca to you)
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