Stopped in today for a sit'n'knit with the gals at Yarn Forward (in between shopping and step-building and then just plain falling down... boy will I be glad when this move is over!). Asked when the Chemo Cap contest/collection was over - I thought it was end of July. Nope, next week! CRAP on a STICK!
So, dug into the yarn bins (already shifted to the "staging area" in the garage) and found the cap-in-progress, and finished it off tonight. Again, sorry no pics but the camera is in a box buried under other boxes. Anyway.
The hat was in Mission Falls cotton, and after having done a bunch of dishcloths earlier this week and finishing up Mom's cotton socks, I've discovered what I believe many others before me have - knitting cotton makes my hands hurt. I don't know why, maybe it doesn't have the same "give" as wool / acrylic / whatever and so the same tension is more ... tense? Anyway, it makes my hands just ache after a couple of hours. So, I think I'll be avoiding cotton in future (except for more dishcloths as necessary, but maybe not a big binge of them all at once!).
That's it for now. Tomorrow the last of the packing happens, and the computer will be unhooked so no blogging until probably Sunday. So, if you're reading this on Saturday...
HAPPY DOMINION DAY EVERYONE!
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