…another repeat! Make that two, two glorious diamonds tall already. Two down, 17 more to go and I’m halfway through one now. I’d be further, maybe, but I had to stand on the crowded ferry this morning! (We had the little dinghy boat and while I could have waited for the next one, I opted to cram on.) I have most of the pattern memorized so it isn’t difficult commuting knitting. Add in that I have the pattern all neatly organized in the plastic sleeve to which a post-it sticks beautifully and we are all in business.
It is an interesting pattern so far. The diamonds are an every other row motif while the trees between are every row. The really interesting bits should come when the center is done and the borders have been picked up. Since it is garter stitch, you have two choices, do each quadrant of the border (square shawl and all that) separately and then sew them together. Not exactly my first choice as I try to do as little sewing, especially on lacework, as possible! The other is to purl every other round. Seeing as I knit Eastern Uncrossed (or combined knitting as others are wont to call it), purling isn’t such a big deal to me. I’m just not used to much stitch manipulation on the purl. I guess I’ll get comfy with it pretty soon.
In other news, I discovered my car doesn’t like the rain. Or the sprinkler. I noticed this last summer/fall. On rainy days or days when I parked too close to the front lawn and the car got wet, the radio display was flaky. It either was blank, flickered or showed gibberish. And then it stopped. Probably because fall came, the rains stopped and the sprinklers were winterized. Then I forgot all about it. Until yesterday. The rains returned. It has now been raining forever, well okay, more like three days. Here is how it displayed this morning. I called Toyota to ask about it. After a few questions as to model (Sienna), year (2006) and mileage (@9000) I was told they’d order me a new radio. Since I wasn’t near the car I have to call back with the exact mileage on my car and the model number of the radio. It still plays music, thank goodness, but it is always amusing to see what it has to say for itself. I hope it wasn’t cursing at me this morning!
Craft on!
6 responses so far ↓
1 Kim // Apr 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I can’t stand the dinghy boat aka the wee barancle barge. Lace is looking lovely lady! Will it be done by MDSW? Just joking.
2 Paige // Apr 29, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Risa, the character right before the B is Japanese (pronounced “ta”), so maybe your radio’s singing along!
3 JessaLu // Apr 29, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Nice progress! Good luck with the radio thing. ;o)
Remind me to give you my cell #, I think you’ll enjoy the ringing you hear on your end (the Count counts the rings is one…hehe)
4 Jessica // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I’ve had to do a lot of standing lately myself! Stupid mass transit. The lace is beautiful so far. I still can’t believe you are really knitting this crazy thing. Amazing! And the stereo thing totally cracked me up. That picture is priceless!
5 Ina // Apr 29, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Ooh, pretty lace! Whatever that radio is doing, it appears to be doing it in more than one language.
6 Nancy // Apr 30, 2008 at 1:19 pm
That’s a whole lot of YO’s! It’s beautiful -
I saw similar gibberish characters after beating the PacMan arcade game back in the 80’s — like it was saying 4%&)#!*% “that’s all, folks!”