Finally!!!!

I've been knitting and actually finishing stuff. Today I am so happy to say that after a year and five months I finally have colorful and bright shawl unlike anything I have knit before, or will again if I have any say in it.

I didn't talk about it too much but, in March of 2022 a knitting friend asked if I wanted to do a mystery knit-a-long. Now I am not a fan of knitting to a schedule but I was missing my friend and thought it might be a fun thing to do so many miles apart. With all I am going to say shortly I need to say it was fun and I am glad I did it. I showed off my colors in March along with the inspiration quilt a friend gave me. I talked about it in May 2022. I admitted my many struggles in January 2023. Oh my goodness I am not cut out to be this kind of a shawl knitter. I get a challenge but nope that is just not me.

I finished another clue and let it sit for a bit. Then I finally wanted to just finish it. I picked it up and realized the next row was a bobble one. I just couldn't knit another bobble let alone a whole row of them, so I didn't. I turned it into a striped stockinette section and sent a picture to my friend asking if it looked ok. Burt said it looked fine so I could knit on.

So close I can taste it, only one corner to go! (And all of those ends to weave in!)

In my second to last section my ending stitch count was off.  After venting to my friend I set it aside and made my decision in the morning. I ripped back and started over with the same but slightly different problem occurring. Now I was just done with playing around with this so I just started fudging to finish. 

Burt was not sure it was the right decision but figured it was time for him too to sleep on things and let me learn my own lessons.

My lesson was fudging is fine once in a while. Sometimes the knitting just needs to be done. Just look at those ends! That part did not turn out to be quite as big of a slog as I thought it would be.

Mellie is deciding if she should let me wash and block it all pretty before staking a claim, or just claim it as is. Kitty decisions are tough.

Now I only have one pair of socks on the needles so I'm off to make some color decisions and start a new shawl since the larger needles don't aggravate my wrist and thumb. I have reclaimed a knitting basket, two knitting needles, four knitting bags and a whole inventory of stitch markers. It is good to be the knitting queen!