The project for the Rose City Yarn Crawl Mystery Knit Along is finished. It will be a nice wrap to wear during the Yarn Crawl in March.
I chose to do the picot bind-off. I finished the knitting as we watched Olympic hockey.
The bound-off edge was rather ruffled and curled when I finished.
Someone in the Ravelry thread for the project said blocking took care of that, as I hoped. Here's mine blocking.
The blocking did take care of the curling and ruffling, as you can see from the photo of the finished shawl at the top of this post.
Now I needed something to work on, so I decided to alter my Melt the Ice Hat. I had ended the ribbing after 5" instead of knitting to 6", because I was afraid I wouldn't have enough yarn. Then I wasn't happy with it, because I thought the ribbing wasn't long enough to turn up around the edge. I took it apart at the top of the ribbing then picked up the stitches and set about knitting more ribbing.
I stopped when the yarn was used up and then grafted the top back onto the ribbing.
I had this much yarn left when I was done.
I may make another one with thinner yarn.
The next knitting project will probably be the Traveling Woman Shawl with the lovely blue yarn I got for Christmas. (Or was it birthday?) The pattern needs to be flattened out. I rolled it up to fit it into my suitcase.
I need to take some photos for a new story I've written. I really should do that before I start knitting. The dolls will need costume changes and hair fixing, which will take longer than taking the photos. I might need to tidy up my workroom first.
It was a pretty busy week, in addition to the Olympics. Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday, and we went to Trinity's pancake supper, which had sort of a mardi gras theme.
We had nice conversations with the people at our table, but the most fun was the pancake race. Two children had to run from one end of the room to the other, each with a pancake in a pie plate. They were supposed to flip the pancake at the end of the room and then return to the starting place with the pancake intact.
After supper, we all went outside to burn the old palm crosses from last year.
We had a short pre-Ash-Wednesday service while the palms burned.
Then we went into the church to finish up the service and get our ash crosses on our foreheads. The choir sang on Ash Wednesday at the 6:00 service, so I received the ashes again.
We had been having difficulty feeding the dogs. Before Sandy, we used to just leave a dish of kibble out for the dogs, but we discovered that Sandy would eat until it was gone, and when we refilled the dish, he would eat that. Dusty likes to come and take a mouthful and then go away. Then when he felt like having some more, he would come back and find the dish empty. Sandy was putting on unnecessary weight, which wasn't good. Then we went to feeding them in separate dishes and watching while they ate. I told them, "This is Sandy's. This is Dusty's," indicating which dish. Then I stood there and watched them. If Dusty didn't eat all his, I would pick up his dish for a while. Then I started training them more aggressively. I would say, "Good eat," when Sandy started to eat. Dusty wanted the praise, so he would eat, too. When Sandy finished his food, I would make him come away from Dusty and sit, while I continued to compliment Dusty for eating. I would tell Sandy, "Wait," and "Good wait!" while Dusty continued to eat. If Dusty finished his meal, they would each get a treat.
Now Sandy has begun leaving the dishes as soon as he has eaten. He waits without being told. Dusty seems willing to keep eating as long as I keep telling him, "Good eat!" or he finishes eating.
We walked almost every day this past week. Sometimes, especially if it was cold and windy, we only went to the woods for a little off-leash time and then walked back along the trail. Here's a screenshot of our route using the Walk for a Dog app from WoofTrax.
I had to cook some, of course. I made some Dutch Oven Bread, and it came out with a very crispy crust.
We had some apples that were getting old, so I made some cobbler.
I wanted potatoes as a side dish, but something a little different from air-fryer potatoes or roasted potatoes, so I made scalloped potatoes.
Friday I see my ophthalmologist again to get a prescription for driving glasses. A week from next Wednesday we head north for the Yarn Crawl and Charlie's ultrasound procedure.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: Are you watching the Olympic Winter Games? Did you know that some dolls participate in the Doll Winter Games? They do, and they have mostly the same events as human people do. Here's Winter Games, a story from The Doll's Storybook.
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