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Spring Fling

I’ve broken down and am joining the spring fling knitalong. I will be doing my Sigma Tank with Tahki Cotton Classic. This will be my first real project and my first knitalong. I can’t wait to start.

I’ve also been trying to get my legwarmers done. I’m just about to the first decrease on the first leg. I have to say that I really don’t like working with the dpns. The stitches where the dpn join look kind-of sloppy. Some rows look ok, others look loose. I’m trying hard to keep the stitches tight where the needles split, but it’s tricky. It doesn’t look too bad for being my first attempt at using dpn, but I must say, I’ll be glad when I’m done with these legwarmers and can put those dpns away for a while. Maybe it’s the needles themselves (I’m using Lion Brand plastic ones) or maybe just my beginner hand. I’m more than halfway done with the first leg, but it’s actually going pretty quickly. I just have to find the time to actually work on it.

I didn’t get to do any knitting this weekend. We went camping. It was a spur of the moment thing. I did take my knitting, but didn’t pull it out of the truck all weekend. I look forward to sitting down in the evenings this week to work on those darn legwarmers. I really like how they are turning out and can’t wait to try them on, but I’m so ready to be done with them. I’m excited about starting my tank! :)

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Lapghan

This is the beginnings of my lapghan. I was getting tired of doing all that cream knitting, then suddenly I had to join the country blue and now I’m excited all over again. I think it is coming out pretty good. The only thing, I thought the individual colors would be more square but they look rectangular. I checked my gauge even though with this it isn’t critical.

I’ve almost decided I can’t do more than one project at a time. I think for me it’s like reading. If I try to read more than one book at a time, when I reading one, I feel as if I’m neglecting the other. The same is happening with my knitting. When I’m working on one, I feel as though I should be working on one of the other projects. So I may go back to my crochet afghan and just work on it and try to get it finished up before continuing with the other ones.

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