or so it would seem. but at least I will have clean clothing soon.
the hemlock ring is finally off the needles and blocking… ehhn. it’s 52″ across, but doesn’t lay precisely flat, but I’m hoping that won’t bug me once it’s unpinned. I also somehow lost a stitch. repeatedly. at one point, I had 11 stitches fewer than I should have, so I unknitted forever, added in the missing 11 stitches, reknitted, somehow was still down a stitch, added one in, and yet, when I bound off (using the Longest Bind-Off Ever(tm)) I was still down a stitch. but, whatever, it’s done. right? right.
in other news:
bagels! waiting to go in the oven. I tried to take a post-oven picture, but it’s too dark in the kitchen now.
I should spend the rest of the weekend working on the Birthday Hat, but I’m just not in a knitting mood… I think the hemlock ring bind-off has kind of killed my knitting desire just a little bit. My plan for the Birthday Hat is to follow the general idea of the coronet hat from knitty, which, incidentally, was the first functional hat I ever made. Instead of a cabled band, though, I’m just going to do stripes.
