A bullet list!

[stitchy_stitchy]

• I finished my Ravelympics shawl. Yay! It even ended up a little bigger than I anticipated, which is good in that I get a slightly bigger shawl, bad in that the last couple rows, with 400+ dc in each row, were kind of tedious.


• I did not finish my spinning project. Out of 8 ounces of batt, I didn't finish even two. This should not have surprised me - 8 ounces is more than I spun during the Tour de Fleece last summer, and I was spinning this much finer, and also crocheting a shawl at the same time.


• I picked up a gizmo at the Spinners Flock meeting that is helping me spin more consistently - a quick-and-dirty WPI gauge printed on clear plastic. Hold your yarn behind it, and the line it matches best is your approximate WPI.


• Using LLinc and LRinc increases instead of M1L and M1R is making the hexagon for my sock go much faster - because I can actually do LRinc, and cannot actually do M1R.


• Opal sock yarns make awesome hexagons. I am totally in love with this colorway, too, and if they re-issue it for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I will buy more of it.


• In true Yarn Harlot fashion, the sock-in-progress attended a school choir concert. I even knitted a couple rounds on it. The photographic proof of this is a kind of pretty purple smear, because my camera is in the process of dying, flickering badly and getting purple and green. Woe. But the concert was pretty good - the local public school vocal music program is nationally ranked!


• My 32-stitches-on-a-side hexagon measures about 3.5 inches on a side. It should measure about 4 inches. I was about ready to cry at the prospect of frogging it again, and then it dawned on me: "This is a gauge issue. It will be an adequate remedy to simply adjust the numbers and work a few more rows." I will remember this when it turns out the heel won't actually go on a human foot...