It’s been pretty cold recently, so I lugged the Ombre Blanket out to do some work on it. If you keep tabs on my progress bars to the left, you may have noticed that it dropped from 60% finished to less than halfway done. No, I didn’t have to frog; I just discovered that I was way, way optimistic about my progress. Out of the planned eleven stripes of color, I had finished four. Oops. I’ve got a bit more done now, but there’s still a long way to go.

Twenty-five skeins down, twenty-five more to go.

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This is Prentice. Well, most of it.

Tomorrow I’m going to seam these pieces together, attach the D-rings, and pick up and knit the top and the bottom of the tube. And do the i-cord drawstring.

I’m debating whether I want to knit the strap today while watching college football (down with Ohio State!) or set it aside and work on something that’s more interesting than a mile of basketweave. I might opt to set it aside, since I can’t finish assembling the strap anyways without a trip to Big Box Craft Store.

I’ve been neglecting my knitting a bit lately, partly because of work and partly because I’ve been spending my off hours cooking up a storm. But I declared this weekend to be Knitting Weekend and made some notable progress on the rest of my startitis projects.

I turned the heel on my embossed leaves socks. Speaking of which, Claudia finished hers! Yay!

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