ALCHEMY CAMI

I have finished the cami for Alchemy waaaaaaay late. I fiddled with the edging several times over since it calls for crochet and I don’t crochet well. I was told to pick any simple knit edging I liked but none gave me the frilly look shown in picture so I finally ended up doing my cheesy picot bind off that IMO mimics the crochet picot. For those who do not crochet and would like to know what I do: Where it says *sc3, chain 3, slip to last sc* I *BO 3,[ slip st back to left needle and knit]3X* accross. Its not time efficient and very tricky to maintain gauge but it works. I usually chain more and BO less between the loops than was called for in this pattern and if it were not needed for trade show I just might be tempted into redoing it again. Hopefully they are pleased and I have to mail it overnight tomorrow morning.

Post cami finishing I picked up my sock I showed you at the beginning of May–you know the blue thingie I had just turned the heel on after MS&W. I finished it at aunties except for the grafting of toe and weaving in all the ends. There are a lot of ends because my kidlets took a friend, and 3 sets of scissors, into the yarn room and made merry with the snippage. I am far too cheap to throw away $20 of yarn[this ball alone lets not talk about the little piles of at least 50 different colors and textures they created] just cause some chickadees cut out a few inches of the hank here or there. Actually that might just be why my Koigu was so bad–I do have a pair of scissors the kids have used to cut tape and now hacks through yarn instead of cutting. That might be why they looked like breaks instead of clean cuts. Of course I am now worried that I have enough yarn to finish my socks. Those leave 4″ of each end for weaving a dozen times over kinda adds up in the end. Yes my children are still alive and get this….Zoe took another friend in the yarn room last week so…. not phychologically scarred for life. Anyways I should be ready to show you that tomorrow.

Looking over my blog I see that I said I would try and knit one sock between every FO so that my 7 pairs sockathon goal would be less painful. IF you didn’t keel over laughing at my deluded self on March 29th lets do a tally shall we? Since I made the statement we have 7 FO’s and 2 socks completed. I am doing better than I thought except one of the 2 socks needs to be redone and the second needs weaving in of a bazillion ends. Realistically we completed 7 items and NO socks. I really think somebody should be volunteering to knit me socks in exchange for oh a scarf or shawl or something I consider pleasant. Rumor has it that some people enjoy knitting them after all. Anyways the thought of starting another sock in 4/1 ribbing to make the pair was so odious after 2 days of {yawn} knit 4, purl 1 round and round and round and sigh round again that I decided to work on something fun, fun, fun as well. Since I joined Nathania’s Tank Time Along, truth be told I pressured her into creating a Tank Time Along, I decided I would start that. As we all know one of the great things about knitting is the variety in stitches. So of course we had to pick a breather project consisting of a 3/1 rib. Just shoot me now.