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Thanks for all the kind and interesting comments on my Earth Day post from yesterday! I wasn’t entirely sure how that was going to go over, and it was nice to see it met with some enthusiasm. Sometimes I just throw stuff out there on the old blog and hold my breath until the feedback starts. It’s always nice when it’s positive!

Despite my issues with the Bog Jacket, not all my knitting has been so difficult lately. As Spring has been popping up around me, Adamas has been growing!

This has actually been a really pleasant knit. I think the handspun yarn combined with the color and the pattern is working out quite nicely. The yarn has a good bounce and will probably take the heavy blocking this piece will require quite well. There are a few weak parts I’m slightly concerned about, but I know enough to be careful.

Adamas has been going to work with me lately. The chart isn’t so complicated that it’s impossible for train knitting. I really shouldn’t even need it at this point, but I just always seem to need to look at it to get those first few stitches going. After that I usually don’t need it again until the end of the row.

And holy geez are these rows getting long! It look the entire first leg of my train ride into work the other day to get through one purl row. Yikes! I was hoping to finish this up for a special event this coming weekend, but I just don’t think I’m going to make it. As of this writing I have one more repeat to go of the main pattern, then the final 12 rows and the bindoff. I even inserted a lifeline at the end of the last repeat (mostly because I did not want another episode of what happened with Kiri last year!), just in case I find myself without enough yarn for all that. It was easy with the knitpicks needles since they have that little hole to slip some dental floss into. I never understood what people meant by that until I got the needles, so here’s a picture:

Clicky to biggie as always.

I suppose I could get it done if I ignore everything else…

… but how could anyone ignore those faces!!

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