I Win!!!!
Tadah! I finished my seascape. I have been excitedly working along with the TKE KAL on this beautiful shawl, and I have barely been able to put it down since I cast on. There are many reasons why I have been glued to this shawl like white on rice. There is the fact that the yarn is a beautiful colorway, and it is light and soft and delightful to the touch. Amy is genius, and I don’t know what I am going to do when my supply of Spunky starts to run low. There is the fact that the pattern is beautiful. It is enough of a pattern so that I don’t get bored without being so complicated it makes me stressed. (I am talking to you cobweb stole! Lace pattern rows on both RS and WS, I ask you?!?!) The pattern also reminds me of the ocean quite a bit. The swirls of yos end up looking like waves. While all of these things are certainly plenty to keep me tied to a pattern I do not think that in this case any of them is truly the cause in this case. The real reason I have been knitting like there’s no tomorrow on this is that it ties me to all my friends knitting it back at TKE. I never anticipated how heartsick it would make me to move so far away from them. Knitting this shawl as a KAL has made me feel a little less far away. Ever since I have arrived in Canada I have been checking ravelry and gmail constantly. I spend my evenings tied to my computer, and at the lab I always have a window open to ravelry and usually in the TKE group. I miss you all so terribly much, and I am so glad to have such an easy way to stay in touch with you all on a daily basis. I barreled through this project often to be able to post my progress so that there would be more to comments to make. Working on this KAL has helped me feel close to you all from across the border, and a part of me is sad to be finished with it. I even briefly contemplated taking Emily’s suggestion to make a second just to keep it up, despite the fact that I do not have yarn for a second and I almost never knit the same pattern twice mainly cause its not new and exciting anymore. But all good things must end eventually, and I can’t keep knitting seascapes forever. I miss you all.
To keep this post from being too much of a downer: I am enjoying myself here in the land of Canadia. There are good things to drown out the bad. While a pint of Ben and Jerry’s now costs $7, there are smarties and other cadbury items available at every candy aisle. I have found two new knitting groups in the area, though neither is tied to a specific shop. I am really excited about what I will be doing in the lab. Today I received a very vague and confusing set of instructions for starting my own project. I will probably have to get much more guidance as I plow through it, but it will be my project. My very own set of questions that nobody knows the answer to and I will be the first to go out there and find out. I can not express how exciting that is for me.
Seascape from the summer issue of knitty knit in Spunky Eclectic Merino Lac, colorway is some sort of green...
Monday, July 14, 2008
Finished the Seascape for the TKE KAL
