Life's a Stitch

I was at Chicks With Sticks the other week showing off my Charlotte’s Web shawl and someone asked where I bought the pattern. I realized that I’ve never blogged about that strange event. I had made up my mind to knit the shawl and stopped by five yarn shops in Washington looking for the pattern. A the last shop, in Anacortes, I was told that they didn’t carry the pattern or Koigu yarn, but was directed to yarn of a similar weight. I reached up above my head to pull a skein from its cubby when a leaflet fell out of the same cubby and hit me on the head. I have witnesses. I looked at the paper and it was a Charlotte’s Web pattern. I was destined to knit that shawl. The woman who worked at the store didn’t have a clue how that pattern got there, but she gladly sold it to me.

Just about finished with the triangular shawl and I’ve started on the flower basket bag, having knit two of the roses and two of the leaves. I love Lamb’s Pride’s stitch definition.  Decided to knit the body of the bag in the round, adding 16 extra stitches. The gauge on the Lambs Pride bulky is 3.5 stitches per inch on size 10.5 US needles, however, I was getting four on size 13’s! Ripped it back and will restart on size 15’s! And I thought I had become a loose woman.