It’s been an admin type of day today. Many of my days lately have been full of admin, but it’s mostly not been my own admin, so it’s been good to start to feel a little bit more in control of what I’m doing. So far, I have updated the household accounts, updated the yarn shows I am attending on the website (as far as they have been made public), attempted to book a hair-cut (thwarted as they were shut), applied to another yarn show, planned a choir rehearsal for tomorrow and prepped everything I need for my Introduction to Two-Colour Brioche Knitting workshop tonight.
There’s still time for you to book on the brioche workshop – as it’s held on Zoom you don’t even have to leave the house! It’s 7-9pm GMT tonight; all you need to bring is two contrasting colours of DK yarn and a circular 5mm needle. I email the handout to those attending beforehand. You need to be able to confidently knit, purl, yarn over, cast-on and cast-off. The rest I will teach you.
It was good to add some of the yarn shows I’m attending to the website and I’ve tweaked the Events page layout so it’s easier to scroll through. These are the two shows I’m doing in May.
It’s also helped me check which ones I’m teaching at (about half of them!) and I have had a little sneak at how ticket sales are going for some of those workshops. It’s not all brioche at the shows this year. I’ll be teaching moebius knitting at some of them – another technique that seems to be magical!
Another task I undertook this morning was a mammoth stitch counting session. Last night I’d got to the end of Part 14 in a design I’m working on and I was 2 stitches short of what I should have had (254 instead of 256). So, today I counted the stitches at the end of each section from the beginning, checked it against the pattern (and checked the pattern was correct). The way this pattern works, it begins with a single stitch and, once the shape is established, increases 1 stitch every other row. Everything was spot on, right up until the last 3 rows. I’d missed a yarn over right in the middle of the last lace row and I’d missed the last increase on the edge. Both those errors had been made late last night – note to self: don’t knit when tired. Of course, if I’d started checking at the top I would have found the mistakes more quickly, but at least the stitch count throughout the pattern has had a good double-check as well now!
Are you going to the Knit Happy! Summit? If you are and you’ve upgraded your free ticket to the VIP version with the Knit Happy Toolkit, remember to claim your free pattern bundle from me. My contribution to the toolkit is a set of 3 of my knitting patterns – Ogee Lace Scarf or Wrap, Reaching Out and Mirror Mirror Moebius. Each pattern was chosen to help stretch and develop a knitter’s set of skills in different ways and give you three lovely items to wear or gift. There is a host of other free patterns and workshops included as well in the toolkit if you are attending the summit, it’s definitely worth upgrading! (And if you sign up to the summit through my link and then upgrade, I will get a small commission).
I will keep today’s post short, as there is still a lot to do before this evening’s workshop, but I did want to tell you about the film we went to see last night. A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan’s early career and I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I’m not (or wasn’t) a big Dylan fan. It’s a well-told and well-acted story and the music is super. If you get a chance, go and see it!
Til next week, take care and do something that makes you happy. K x