Lacy Baktus

I was able to cross the finish line for the Ravelympics at least once this year. I finished my Lacy Baktus on Thursday, the 25th, about two or three days later than I expected to finish. I wanted to finish on Monday or Tuesday, to ensure that I had plenty of time to wind up the yarn and knit Simple Things. I don’t have fancy ball winders and swifts, so winding up yarn can be time consuming. I did eventually get everything set and started on the Simple Things on Friday afternoon.

As of Sunday afternoon

I chugged away at it all weekend, and I got really damn close to finishing it. There were definitely some hurdles– a bit of tinking, and some finagling to compensate for some overlooked yos on one side.By 1:15am CST on Sunday night (or technically Monday morning), I had 13 rows to go. Given that Simple Things is a triangle shawl, and rows on triangle shawls just get increasingly longer to knit, I knew that 45 minutes was hardly enough time to finish 3 rows, much less 13. So, I threw in the towel and went to bed.

I still have 11 rows to go, and I’m hoping to finish it up sometime this week. I don’t want to drag this out just because I’m not working toward a deadline anymore. I want to be able to get back to spinning and reading sometime soon!