Today was, in fact, PCWKIP Day - Port Credit Wide Knit in Public Day. Hush, it's a thing. As part of Port Credit's big sidewalk sale promotion dealie, Linda invited crafters down to have a mini belated WWKIP outside her store. Apparently I talk about Linda a lot on my blog, so . . . hi!
Not creepy stalker, honest.
But! It was fun. I headed down four, cast on a new project on the bus, got there around five, and hung out until almost ten. Met a few Rav folks, finished the project I had started, watched some spinning. Watched random pedestrians being totally mesmerised by the spinning. Got some very odd comments too. One man wished her "Happy yarning!" and another woman quickly tried to cover up her believe that yarn is spun directly from the sheep. Lots of kids were really into it, too.
And, of course, I had to pick up some yarn while I was there. In my defense, I needed some DK for Maddie's Rose wristwarmers and I didn't have any. Also, everything was on sale. I picked up four balls for about $20, two of a dark blue soysilk for the wristwarmers and two of a light blue baby bamboo. Still no plans for that one, but I'll find something.
I meant to take more pictures, but every time I remembered, there was no one around to photograph! So I took a picture of myself:
Well, sort of. Yes, that is the gorgeous yarn from the Baby Yoda sweater - which is finished! Finally, yay! It was cast off on Friday, spent most of that day and night being blocked.
And then the great seaming adventure began. I. Hate. Seaming. If I make this again, I am most definitely knitting it all in one piece. It felt like the seaming took years of my life. I tried matress stitch, but I didn't like it as much as just wrap stitch, or whatever it's called. Anyway. It is finally done. I'm a little worried about the size of the arms, they just don't seem big enough . . . but I guess I won't know until the baby actually wears the thing. Here's the finish product for the youngling:
The yardage instructions on the pattern were very, very misleading. It reads like you'll need almost three hundred yards - or at least, that was how I read it, I could be a total dink - but I ended up using about 260yds. I say 'about' because my kitchen scale is terrible and I really want a digital postage scale or similar. Which left me with just about 114 yds left over, which was more than enough for a wrist-length pair of my beloved Evangelines. Only in cotton and small, so I can wear them in the summer without wanting to peel off the top layer of my skin. That was what I was working on yesterday in Port Credit, and what I'm about to cast on for the second of the pair when I finish with this post.
Gotta love lazy days off. My class is all finished until the final exam next Friday. No work. My family's scattered to the four winds. Perfect time to knit and catch up on my TiVO.
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