Yarnification

I upgraded WordPress to the new version right before I left for the rest of the weekend on Saturday. I figured it’d come out okay because I’d run the exact same upgrade on a different site of mine a couple days ago and it worked out just fine, so I didn’t do all that much checking aside from making sure the page would load.

But that’d be too simple, and the feeds have been broken all weekend. I think it’s fixed now.

I finished the Seraphina shawl last night (Heh. Just in time for the weather to turn warm) but the photos I took didn’t come out, so I’ll try that again tonight. Or tomorrow—we need to pick Sara up at the airport in Columbus tonight and then drive her to Athens and I may not be up for much by the time we get back home. Soon, though.

The memo bag is mostly done, but I’m dithering about the flap. The chevron rows on the flap are coming out just slightly narrower than the rest of the bag. It’s slight enough that if I tug on it it’ll straighten out and be as wide as the rest, but I’m afraid it’ll shrink a lot when I felt the thing and look weird when it’s done. So I can’t decide if I want to rip out all those rows and re-do them with a bigger hook or what.

I bought yarn for that little corset over the weekend. I didn’t mean to, meant to wait a while, but we were at Hobby Lobby and Don is such an enabler and all that. (Yeah. We’ll blame it on Don. I had nothing to do with it.) Paton’s Katrina in black. I decided against holding out till I found that Berocco suede because I knew I wasn’t going to find it anyplace closer than Pittsburgh and I didn’t want to have to pay shipping on it. That Katrina also looks less horrendously warm, which is nice.

The pattern demands that you use yarn that would knit up at 19 sts/4 inches, and this is 18 sts/4 inches, but I am not worried about that. (Famous last words?) I always have trouble making gauge because my stitches come out too small and have to change hook sizes and so on, so if anything, having yarn that’s just a smidge bulkier should help.