At long last progress

I managed to beat down the one migraine I tried to get so I had a very successful weekend of stitching on the butterfly fairy. I laid it out on the afghan on the sofa to snap so it has interesting bumps.



I also put a few more inches on the scarf this week. Instead of trying for some sort of "artistic" progress photo of it, I decided to leave it in my project box and snap it there.

Sometimes a migraine is a good thing

This weekend started out with me trying for yet another migraine to ruin it, but I nipped it in the bud. I took myself to IHOP for breakfast where I consumed vast quantities of coffee - as well as an omelet and toast - and then I went to the post office to check my mail and then I swung by the Hobby Lobby to pick up some DMC 425 and 426 which I was dangerously close to being out of. While at Hobby Lobby, I picked up another roll of 22 count Monaco so I can start the second butterfly fairy when I finish the first and the Shadow Knitting book by Vivian Høxbro. And when I paid, I was pleasantly surprised to discover the book and fabric were on sale. I walked away with paying less, including tax, for all four items than the untaxed, full price of just the book. AND, I don't have a migraine or even just a plain old annoying headache. So I'm off to stitch!



And just for good measure, here's a snap of my lovely Gobzilla sunning herself.

And the butterfly fairy

I spent another weekend battling migraines so I did not get much done on the fairy. I'm a little disappointed in my lack of progress the last two weeks, but it can't be helped, I suppose. I still hope to get it done in time for Christmas. And I really, really hope I can have next weekend migraine free.

The scarf . . . and then some

I managed to put a few more inches on the scarf this week. I conned the Prodigal Son into holding it up so I could get a size perspective. He's about 6 feet tall and the scarf is in the neighborhood of 5 feet long. Of course, Prodigal had to have help from Heru and Mouse. What would yarn laying on the floor be like if it didn't have a couple of cats keeping a very, very keen eye on it?



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Weekly update

I only worked a few hours on the butterfly fairy this weekend. I had migraines on Saturday and Sunday so I spent a very unproductive weekend just feeling sorry for myself.





I also only spent a couple of hours knitting on the scarf. It's just about four or five inches longer than it was at last week's report. The change isn't significant enough to warrant a new set of photos.

Two new books arrived

the knitter's handy book of sweater patterns,
Basic designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges
by Ann Budd

This looks like a nifty book. I've just thumbed through it and it looks like the kind of thing I need to get me started knitting sweaters. I need instructions to tell me what to do for shaping a neck and arms and such. I don't need pattern instructions.

The Best of Knitter's Magazine
shawls and scarves
edited by Nancy J. Thomas

This looks like a wonderful book. Unfortunately, with just a very quick glance through it, it appears the book gives the kind of instructions that are quite literally Greek to me. Those pretty diagrams don't mean a thing to me.

Taking wing

And the butterfly fairy is coming along nicely. I didn't get as much done this normal two day weekend as I did last week, but it is very steady progress. I'm actually quite pleased with myself for how regularly I've been working on it.



I wish I were a better photographer so the subtle shading of the wing was more apparent.

It's growing!

Did you know it's actually a little bit difficult to get a full length picture of a scarf that's almost four feet long without someone holding it up? And since there was no one here to do that when I felt the need to snap, un-full length snaps is what you get instead.





That last photo makes the poor scarf look like it has some sort of bumpy disease. It doesn't. I just didn't smooth it down as much as I thought I had.

Oh, well. I never claimed to be much of a photographer.

;D

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