Taking a brief break from my website (which is getting there, thank you 
all SO MUCH for helping me out!), I've done a little knitting on my 
first moebius.  I got all the luxury fibers spun up before I started 
working on the website, did a gauge swatch late last month, and cast on 
220 stitches, then picked up the additional 220.

I knit a couple rows plain, until the knitting got easier, then changed 
to a k/p pattern that took about 6 rows.  Then I started doing some 
short rows to make the back longer and changed to the 'feather and fan' 
pattern in a multiple of 15 sts (and yes, you got it--wrong number of 
stitches, so I decreased to 435 :)  After doing several short rows, I 
realized I had a mistake in the pattern, and of *course* it was in the 
section that wasn't being knit with the short rows <sigh>

So I took it off the needle and, after trying it on (yes, it was the 
right size for once!) and checking the placement of the short row ends 
(too short, need to make that section longer, close to the whole 220 sts 
originally cast on), I ripped back to the last regular row before the 
k/p pattern while watching Pirates III last night (and I think I *got* 
it all for the first time--out of 3 watchings), and am now ready to 
resume knitting, this time with more short rows started much earlier and 
keeping the whole piece in feather and fan, which should be really 
pretty with all the natural colors.

So, that's my latest handspun project.  What are all of you working on?

Holly
where ice is falling from the sky and wondering how long before the 
power goes out

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