It’s been a few days since I’ve had a chance to post.  My in-laws are in town from their Florida “estate” (it’s a camper trailer on a lot, with a shed).  We’ve been Christmas shopping.  I’m one of those people, who likes to wait until the week before to go shopping.  My mom is already done shopping, for next year.  Not me, I’ve still got at least one stop to make for this year.

Reid is off the blocks, and being assembled.  I’m really happy with how the blocking worked on the lace.  It all laid down nicely and the stitches evened out well.  If I were to make this sweater again, I would add a knit stitch to either end (and do the increases inside this stitch), and add another RS row of all knit stitches to the tops of the sleeves, just to make assembly easier.  The places where there are two knits together are really easy to mattress, but the places with increases, decreases, and YOs make assembly difficult.  It’s going well though, and I’ll have it assembled soon.  I can only work on it after my daughter goes to bed, since it is a surprise for her.

I started, and finished a new hat for myself, I need to try blocking it on a balloon.  It’s a bit too short, just a bit.  I’m hoping I can get a half inch or so out of blocking.  If not, then it will go in the “gift knitting” box, and I’ll make another.

My mother-in-law admitted that she hasn’t been knitting because she’s afraid of patterns.  Well, I’m not having that.  She also said she’s never been to a yarn store, unless you count Walmart (we don’t).  So we went to an LYS yesterday.  Not my favorite in the area, but we were heading that direction anyway for dinner and a look at “The Big Bright Light Display“.  She picked out a hank of Malabrigo worsted.  We balled it up, and she decided on making the Seaman’s cap that I had been working on.  I gave her the pattern, some needles, and I made her do a gauge swatch.  Good thing too, she was a size too small from what I just used to knit the same hat.  She’s now on her third cast on, and going around the headband.  The first cast-on didn’t have a long enough tail to finish, the second was twisted when she joined.  I blame my wife for that, as she helped her join.  For some reason my wife thinks my joining method is too complicated, so I let her show her mother.

While my MIL was knitting her gauge swatch, I picked up some yarn, gauged, and cast-on Pro-Bono, with some Malabrigo I’ve been intending on using as a hat.  This one is destined for the gift box.

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