Stitches was a blast and I am still recovering from the wealth of information and OMG! the market. It was a dark and rainy weekend in Chi town and the weather followed me home. I actually had to pull over twice the skies were so dark and the rain so thick. Mind you it was between 1 and 7 pm. Power was down in some areas of St Louis when I got home and my computer needed a reboot which didn’t occur til Thursday~ the radio silence really was all about timing last week.

During the interim I finished STTS. I keep thinking I should maybe block her before I show her but lets make it a before and after dealie…. Before:

There is some serious 3-D stuff going on in this shawl:

See all the bloops around first lace pattern~ before increase round? The epitome of peaks. Again near the increase round of second lace pattern and the third lace pattern is all lumpy bumpy. This probably means I will be blocking sooner than later to see how it all looks in the end. For the edging BO and sewing together I substituted the Russian Graft technique I learned at Stitches and I am gonna close up when it is blocked to decide how much we lurv it. OK I could go on and on about stuff from last week but then what would we blog about the rest of week hmmmmmmm? Til tomorrow~

yarny days and knitterly evenings ;^>