Countdown to September

Last, um, October or November I went to my LYS and picked out some yarn to go with the PERFECT pattern for a wedding present for my brother-in-law's wedding this September. Last Wednesday, I went and picked it up (there was apparently an issue with the yarn companies shipping services, it's not an issue for me- I still have 9 months to knit this thing). The beaver has kind of taken a back seat, partly because I know my husband will still love me if I give him a birthday present with dpns still in to, but my future sis-in-law probably has higher expectations for a wedding present- and rightly so- and partly because I am over the circular linen stitched tail.

So I've been working on the blanket for the wedding. My goal for now, is to post weekly updates, mostly to keep me coming back here and posting. They may end up just being photos, but hopefully I will be inspired once I am here, because....I also got wool combs! But that is another post, or two.

Anyway, since last Wednesday, I have been able to get all 164 stitches cast on (with a knit-on cast on) and I am 20 rows into the 24 row seed stitch boarder. I had originally (on Wednesday) considered starting the blanket now, thinking that 4 rows won't make much of a difference in the look of the blanket, it will save me 8 rows total knitting, more importantly it will save 8 rows of SEED STITCH, and will save me some yarn since I had irrational fears of running out. But now I am thinking that it's only 4 more rows, the seed stitch hasn't been terrible (far better than the linen stitch beaver tail in time out), according to the estimates on the pattern I think I have about an extra 300 or so yards, and the extra 4 rows, in a chunky yarn on size 10 needles will make enough of a visual difference, that I should just do all 24 rows. Whew, so much information that no one ever cared about :).

Anyway here is the first of hopefully many photos...

The needles are very curly, I'm hoping that works itself out as it gets longer and more blanket-y.

Hopefully I will have some more time this week to fill you in on the wonders that are the wool combs, so until then...thanks for reading!