100
That’s how many rows it took to get the throw as long as I wanted it, 100. Now I’m looking at the instructions for the border, and my first impression is, “Huh?” I thought it was a multiple of three in each round, but now it looks like one round is a multiple of five, and I need to sketch out a diagram of it so I can figure out whether this border is doable or not. I may try to come up with a different border. The pattern (warning, PDF) is this one: Sunshine lace afghan.
Argh.
In other news, I have tried on the outfit I planned to wear to the wedding and am happy to report that the skirt (which had not fit me since 1998) fits just fine. I was pretty sure it would but hadn’t ruled out the possibility of a last-minute wardrobe crisis. Losing weight is hell on the wardrobe. I know, I know, I have no business complaining, but still. I had only just gotten rid of all my smaller clothes a few months before I lost that last ten pounds and would’ve been able to fit into most of them again.
Most of them were outdated anyway, though. Luckily the skirt doesn’t look dated, just a basic fall-weight wraparound thing in charcoals and blacks and dark reds. Speaking of which, I so wish I’d gotten around to finishing that choker before the aghan time crunch because it would have gone perfectly with this outfit. Ah, well.
In other news, Jewels suggested I try the Irish hiking wristwarmer pattern to learn cables, and I may just do that. It does look less scary than Fetching and would get the keeping-hands-warm thing accomplished. Thanks, Jewels!
Then I will tackle the dpns again another day. I also did download a bunch of videos from knittinghelp.com to try to figure out where I’m having problems with the whole knitting process. I need to look closer at the videos to be sure—mostly I was downloading them but not watching them first—but I’m starting to suspect that I may have been knitting combined, not English as I had previously thought, and maybe I need to make adjustments so as not to have things come out wonky.
Today is day zero—gotta get that border figured out and finished so I can get this thing done…
