Forward. Here’s the baby sweater, blocked:

(I rotated the image but couldn't figure out how to save it in its new orientation. They keep changing the rules.)

And I’m about half way through the edging for my hap class in Shetland. It’s as simple as it could possibly be: a six row pattern, action on both sides, up and down from seven stitches to ten and back.

The outer edge doesn’t look as bumpy as I would like. Should I actually block it? Or would that be too Goody-Two-Shoes?

(Thinking along those lines reminds me that I went in search of Franklin’s essay on “The Ten Knitters You Meet in Hell” the other day, and discovered that it seems to have disappeared – presumably swept away with the Twist Collective in which it appeared. That’s a considerable loss to knitting literature. I hope it will re-surface one day.)

Whatever I decide about blocking, it will be finished soon. I had better get the knitting graph paper out and start on half-Calcutta-Cups.

Mary Lou, (comment yesterday), some of Kaffe’s early patterns, notably “Tumbling Blocks” and its later derivatives (from “Glorious Knitting”, which I think may have been called something else in the U.S.) -- succeed in getting some flow even into intarsia. Knit them with yard-long lengths of yarn which you just pull through the tangle, as he recommends.

Reading

I must be near the end of Rendell’s “Portobello”. I’m still enjoying it. Trollope next.