School again...

[deborahlane]

...half term was so great. Why do we have to go to work? Why can't everything be free and children could just learn by osmosis or something...

I am knitting such a pretty scarf. That is what I want to be doing now...

Boo-hoo.

Comments

[carakins]

I know that feeling. I ought to go to bed so I'm fresh for work, but I've only three and a half rows of my Colonnade shawl to do and I really want to finish it!

[deborahlane]

Oh, you should definitely finish it...three and half rows is nothing! Go, go, go! :)

[carakins]

:-D Two and a half to go now! Nearly 300 stitches on the needles, mind...

[deborahlane]

Lol. Sounds like my scarf! I'm knitting it lengthways! :)

[carakins]

My next project's going to be one of them... Which pattern are you using?

[deborahlane]

It's a Koigu Shawl (from Knitty City-free pattern).

Really simple: Cast on (about) 300 stitches on size 4 (American) needles.
Knit 6 rows.
Row 1: K1, *YO twice, K1; repeat from * to end
Row 2: K1, *drop YOs, K1; repeat from * to end
Rows 3-6: Knit

Knit two extra rows at the very end and bind off loosely with size 10s.

Change colours whenever you want on the garter stitch sections. I've got 5 skeins of Koigu in different greeny shades...

[carakins]

Ooh, that sounds lovely. I finished, but then ran out of yarn halfway through the cast off. Either have to buy more yarn or do it in the contrast...How frustrating!

[deborahlane]

Oh, that is seriously irritating.What if you tinked back one row?

[carakins]

That's what I did in the end - a new skein of the Adriafil Llama would probably have been at least a tenner! It's done though, just needs blocking.