I am still waiting for my swift to be returned from the no man’s land that is joann.com’s return department. It’s been, three weeks, I think, and I haven’t heard anything. Annoying. I should have gotten a return receipt from the post office, but live and learn. They probably have it already, and I just haven’t gotten the replacement back yet.

This week I did the measurements for Knitty’s I Do, and started the swatch. I’m using the needles as called for, US size 7, but a far finer yarn, some of the JaggerSpun wool/silk blend I have in my stash. I think the lighter yarn will be nice, and the gauge swatch I did seemed like it would give me enough cover when worn over a sun dress, which is what I’m looking for. Worsted would be too warm for summer. I’m not sure if I like the stitch pattern, but I think I just prefer more ordered looking lace, like in Kiri or in the Myrtle Leaf Shawl. I toyed with the idea of designing my own, but I think I’d rather knit this one first, and then design one later. I’ll always have a need for lovely shrugs for the summer, and can always make one of my own design later. Since I’ve never knit a shrug (or even a sweater!) I think it’s better to start slow. Especially because I want to wear it to a wedding in May. I actually cast on for it, but the pattern calls for 16″ size 7s, and I only have 24″ and larger, and none suited for magic loop (which I’m really not fond of, actually) so I may have to take a trip over to Village Yarn and Fiber tomorrow. I’ve been avoiding it since my no stash year started so I wouldn’t be tempted, but I’ll just have to be good. I think a couple of my girlfriends want to go anyway, so maybe we’ll make it a date, and it will make it easier to avoid temptation.

My grandmother was due to go in to surgery yesterday, but it was canceled because of an ongoing skin infection doctors have never been able to diagnose (or even do much to treat), and I made her these to help her keep track of the pattern repeats in the shawl she is making. I need to remember to find out the pattern, and I’ll link it here.

Since I’ve only used the coin beads before, it was fun to pick something different out for her, and I really like how the faceted roundels look. I bought two of the strands, and I made some for myself with white elastic instead of clear to see how I liked it, and I think they turned out pretty well.

I think I might get some more of these to make some other sets and put them in my etsy shop. I also need to make some more clay food, because I don’t have any finished sets and I’m really excited about tiny food.

I was also able to find (finally!) a set of size 10 clover dpns for the hemlock ring blanket, so I can get that started again. I need to make some things for the husband’s cousin’s baby who is due in March, and I started making that in the the yellow cotton I bought way back in August or September, but I’ll have to wind a few of the balls by hand. I’m going to have to wind the cotton for the bobbi bear by hand too, I think, or I will completely run out of time before the baby shower. I really hate that joann’s is so bad at communicating.

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