The other night I finished the last round on Oh!Canada and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this knit. The yarn was beautiful to work with and the pattern had a soothing rhythm to it. I was almost sad to finish it.
So last night I sat down to work on the center seam graft, with a glass of wine and American Idol on the screen.
The seam....easy peasy or so I thought. About a quarter of the way through it, I held it up to check on the progress. Zoinks!.......it would appear that I was working on the wrong side. Not only was I working on the wrong side, but the pattern was not lining up correctly. ...oops! I guess I don't have to tell you what I will be doing again tonight.....I think I may skip the glass of wine though :-)
While I am sad to finish up with Oh!Canada, I am looking forward to getting back to some of that golden goodness in my WIP basket.
This week's goal is to graft and block Oh!Canada and to finish the Bee Sock.
I can then I reconnect with the beautiful Bee Stole again. I had reached the end of the hive section when I put her down, so I am ready to move onto the swarm section. I'm looking forward to working on her again :-)
The snow it just keeps continuing this winter. This week we had 6 inches on I think Monday, another 3 inches yesterday, topped off with a bit of ice and this morning we woke to at least another 6 inches or so. Here are a few of this morning's pictures........so very pretty, but one wonders if we will ever see grass again!
The yarn colorway is gorgeous for your Oh Canada - even if you wanted to knit a little i-cord noose up after the seaming fiasco:) ugh.
Posted by: Stacey | Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 04:52 PM
dang - I just hate when that happens!
perhaps the wine should have been had before the grafting?? (you know, limber up those knitting fingers?? hee hee)
no seriously tho - it'll work out in the end.
The glass of wine doesn't often get me when I knit, but rather the falling asleep mid row does it every time! I've had to rescue a bunch of stitches from my current cable project due to dozing (grin)
Posted by: Teyani | Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 01:56 AM
Kim- I've made an Executive decision- I will not be grafting- it will all run in one direction.
I think the wine may work in your favour.
Posted by: Lorraine | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 01:12 PM
I don't drink and I still make mistakes like that! Hopefully it will be easy to fix. I'd have a bad case of Spring Fever by now, if I lived where you do.
Posted by: Wool Winder | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 09:08 AM
No kidding, I need a break from this snow! Or maybe I need to move closer to work. Something has to change!
Posted by: Cheryl | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 08:54 AM
That grafting part has had me worried from the start.
Posted by: Judy | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 08:14 AM
For the first time in weeks we are looking forward to some sunny dry days here. We had lots of rain, the grass we see here is drowning :-)
Sorry about the grafting, hope you will get it right now.
Posted by: Marianne | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 02:47 AM
What you got in snow we got in rain. No shoveling for me but what a yucky messa mud. Your scenery is much prettier than mine. Good luck with your grafting.
Posted by: Chris | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 09:12 PM
Oh Canada is on my lists of things to make. I do love Anne's patterns. Make a note on how you do the graft, please. I will probably be asking you soon.
No snow in Pittsburgh. Just rain. It was in the 60s the other day. Weird winter.
Posted by: Linda | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 07:04 PM
Beautiful shawl. Redoing the graft? That bites. Maybe fine chocolate instead of wine with the grafting this time will help. :-)
Posted by: Manise | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 06:04 PM
It snowed here....again... today too. I could use a wee bit o' green poking out thru melting snow soon!
Posted by: Anne | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 05:14 PM
I say seam it up and then enjoy the wine!
Posted by: tiennie | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 04:20 PM
I say have the wine anyway, just get started before your first sip.
The snow is beautiful. It'll be gone before we know it.
Posted by: Teresa C | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 02:57 PM
You're not alone, Sister. You're not alone. At least it's something fixable. How about the Dolly girl?! lol. As soon as she started singing I told Dan she sounded like Dolly. Dang... hit the nail right on the head. See... they should hire me. First Taylor and now this. :-)
Posted by: Jean | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 02:45 PM
At least there's someone else out there besides me, who does these things. I hate when that happens. It is beautiful, though!
Posted by: Debbie | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Oh well, live and learn...hope that you enjoyed the wine!!
Posted by: gina | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 01:34 PM
Sorry about the seaming...the color is just georgous. You're snow pics are lovely...we had 70 degree temps this week here in md. :)
Posted by: Ruinwen | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Ha-ha! Was is a red? At least if you graft while drinking you should match your wine to your yarn.
Posted by: Kirsten | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Sorry about the grafting. I've avoided patterns like that for that very reason. I'm sure I could do it but I'd rather not!
Posted by: Carole | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Uh oh! Wine + grafting = bad news!
Posted by: Cheryl S. | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 10:53 AM
We also had snow yesterday and more today. It's been a snowy, snowy winter.
That glass of wine while grafting will get you every time;-)
Posted by: margene | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 10:52 AM