Today was a day of errands and odd jobs. Ever notice how long it takes to get anything done at the bank? All I wanted was to set up online banking and it took half an hour. Then there was the HairCut. Anyone looking for hair extensions or a wig? My hair grows fast and thick. Put in an order now and you can have a six foot mane for next winter. The hairdresser spent an hour chopping and chopping away… and my mother still had to cut another monch out of it when I got home. She said it was like cutting into a thatch!
Anyway, I can’t make any more progress on my blue vest because I haven’t the right size needles with me to do the bottom ribbing for the back piece. I’m stalled on a sleeve for the blue raglan because let’s face it, knitting sleeves is like a penance. Each time I knit on it I feel like I am earning mega space in Knitting Heaven (Which totally exists, by the way: cashmerino beds and an everflowing feed of Lorna’s Laces). I needed no more excuses to start on my beaded Butterfly.
I am a bit miffed that after spending a day – a day – threading beads onto the wool you cannot SEE them in the photo. But I assure you they are there (and they’d want to be)(love for beads quickly boiling down into a bitter resentment). I have one warning for anyone thinking about undertaking this project – the written instructions are eye-boggling. Write them out in a chart. Even if the chart makes sense to nobody else, do it. It took me half an hour to knit one repeat for the hem from the written instructions, and 15 minutes to knit from the chart.
Back to Dublin – and broadband – tomorrow. The countdown to the end of college has begun! Exams? What exams? I’m going at them like Homer charging, screaming, at a barbeque with a parasol.
I have a similar problem with my butterfly beads. I think I should have used something a bit bigger and bolder, but I’m damned if I’m going to go back and un-thread the beads that took me forever to put on.
How do I get to your first day in this blog?
I just fund it and so far what I read I like…
I’m starting to knit and I also go to university. I’m taking Statistics…
My first project … what do u guess … yea simlple scarf.. not trilling nothing like your stuff, which I love.. but maybe my next project would be something more exiting… let me know how to find your first page.
Thanks Happy new (knitting) year
PP.S. Please do not post this silly comment 🙂
You’re right – I can’t see any beads at all. Weird.
You mean Homer Simpson, or the guy who wrote the Iliad? *scratch scratch* Odyssey? I can never get them straight.
Oooooooooooo, that looks beautiful, whether the beads are visible or not! If you are concerned about threading and them not being visible, if the pattern allows you could try hooking the beads on with a tiny crochet hook instead and see if that helps? There are instructions on Knitty I think.