Sunny Saturday

I was supposed to work today, but at the eleventh hour the mold I was supposed to evaluate wasn't going to be able to run after all. So, Caesar and I took advantage of the sunny day. I will never cease to be amazed at how cats can be comfortable in the strangest of positions.

I realize some of you may be wondering if the drama of the Trout socks has reached it's peak. Sadly, not yet. I don't mean to leave you hanging, but I realized that my next lace class is less than a week away and I have to knit my swatch.

This is the wonkiest oddest* swatch I've knit. It is from a table doily pattern meant to be knit in the round. Most lace patterns have a center. The left side is a mirror image of the right. That is true with this pattern, except the center keeps shifting. Thus, the chart I made from the written instructions doesn't exactly match with my knitting. I have to keep finding the true beginning of each row. It took me awhile to figure that out. At first I thought it was me, but I realize now that the instructions assume the knitter just knows where to start. It never mentioned once that the beginning of the round moves.



My outdoor knitting startled a chipmunk. The amazing thing is that he/she didn't move for 20 minutes from this pose.





*I looked up wonky, a word I use often. As I discovered I have been using it incorrectly.