This Lady Knits

Pattern: Shedir by Jenna Wilson (Knitty Fall ’04)

Needles: Addy Turbo 16″ #3 & Knitpicks #3 DPN’s.

Yarn: Rowan Calmer Colorway: 479 – Slosh 2 balls, well actualy one and just a bit from the 2nd.

Cast on 1/1/08

Cast off 1/31/08

Yes I know I rarely actually know how long it takes me to knit anything usually it’s just an estimate of how many days, weeks, months, years it’s taken me if I post even that much, but this was for my OOP’s GKA (group knit along) for January, so I know when I cast it on, and my goal was to finish at least 1 of my January KAL’s in January, this was much easier than finishing the Sleeves on my EDC, which I will get back to tomorrow.

The pattern calls for 1 ball of Calmer, and I knit to gauge, others have been able to just get by with one skien, but for some reason, I ran out of yarn in the first ball with 20 or so rows left to go. I really had honestly thought this was the only ball of Calmer in this colorway in my stash, so I was very worried about running out of yarn, so I did what any knitter would do and knit faster, but alas the ball ended and I still had 20 or so rows left to knit.

I went on a stash dive, hoping and praying that I was 20% wrong when I thought I was 80% sure I didn’t have a 2nd ball of this in my stash. I found 1 ball of Calmer in a cream/white, and seriously thought about finishing this with that ball. I figured found 1 ball, there must be another, so i went in again. This time I came up with 1 ball of Calmer…hot pink, not exactly what I was looking for, so back in I went. Came up with yet another ball in hot pink again… back in I went. Wait there’s a 2nd ball of hot pink, it was in the back, so into the cotton shelf I went again, this time I went deep and low and behold what was hiding in the very back bottom corner of my cotton shelf (btw, it’s 5 shelves up, so just above my eye level) there I found another ball of Calmer, not only in the same color way, but from the same dye lot. This hat was meant to be, or so I thought.

I went off to meet with one of my knitting groups, fully intending on finishing this hat, only to find while I brought the new found ball of yarn, and the hat and a sufficient number of DPN’s, but no pattern. I was at knitting, so I knit on DH’s sock, which btw is still not done, but I still have a few hours to finish that one, he’s off for some Superbowl testerone bonding, so I bought myself some time. Hopefully he’ll come home to a completed pair of B-day socks (Happy B-day DH). But I dirgress. Left knittting early that night, so I could finish Shedir in January. I came home an knit, and twisted stitches and decreased then wove in my ends and finished at 11:12 on January 31.

I must knit, I am on the heel of the 2nd Earl Grey sock, and I have until DH gets back from his SB activities to fnish.