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Incredibly...

This took me six days. Hippie That would be #23 from VK Spring/Summer 2005. I like summer projects. As I said to Ed yesterday, this was rated level "Experienced". I found it pretty straight-forward. Perhaps I'm beyond patterns now? I had some things I wanted to rant about, but I forget what they were, so I won't bother.

New project...

Last week I finished the yellow socks. Sunday I finished the flap cap of the damned, eight days after removing it from time-out. It's adorable. The flaps stick out, but that might be because my hair sticks out. I will use the lessons I learned to make another flap cap again. I might even send it to a magazine (as part of a set, perhaps, with the matching gloves and sweater). So last night I started #23 from Vogue Knitting Spring/Summer 2005, which I renamed Hippie, because my sensei said "Robyn, you're a hippie from way back" while we were at Karate camp, and this struck me as interesting -- is that how people see me? I'm using some Lana Grossa Toccata in a dark blue color. There's a mistake in the first row of the first lace pattern. I think by the time I got to the second repeat, I had realized that the yarn-over had to go inside the SSK, though, in order to make the lace panel work right. This is probably why I make such a lame proof-reader -- my eyes fix t...