I have to admit, my knitting has slowed down a bit this last month.
Minnesota has a short enough spring that I tried to make sure I spent some of it outside.

I’ve been working on the garden as well as spending more time at the gym.
Because I decided it was well past time I spent more time working on myself.

So what have we been up too.

On one of the designer boards I started following, she put out a call for test knitters. And because I was thinking I have nothing else to do, I decided to try test knitting. In hind site I wish I would have looked closer at the pattern picture, because many many hours of work later I got something I only kind of like. But not that much.
It’s has a square shape, that reminds me of the crisp white collars all bad pilgrim costumes must have.

If I were to use it again I would drop one of the 3 sections that give it that odd square back and make it a more traditional triangular shawl. With beads, lots of beads and a stretchier non-picot bind-off.

I finished my Tales of Suspense Mystery KAL  just in time for mother’s day and our 2nd trip to the Avenger’s and I love how it turned out.

I did do an additional repeat of the third clue and I like the way it turned out, I think I’d like to knit this one again in a thicker yarn rather than fingering and maybe in a single color too. Maybe. I had some trouble adapting the border to my extra 10 stitches from earlier repeats, so I’ll avoid doing that again.

I finished the Summer Changeling, in linen. My first Boo knit. I was really worried about this one several times, the colors were wrong, the beads were wrong, the border was wrong… But then I got it off the needles and blocked it. And the whole thing came together like magic.

It also turned out kind of huge, so I won’t do an extra repeat of the first section again.
I used Jeny’s stretchy bind-off after a couple tries with other cast-offs, but the linen yarn had no natural stretch of it own and it kept ending up to tight.

I have working hard on the Earth Shawl Mkal, currently I’m half way done with the border and turning the last hank into a a useable cake is the only thing slowing me down.

Working with this yarn has been a joy if nothing else, but as much as I love cables, I may be a little cabled out now.

I’ve been practicing on my wheel a little more, after chatting with a very helpful women at Shepards Harvest I learned a lot and had to try again after my first sad attempt.

I can say with confidence, I’m starting to get the hang of this.
And just in time too, Tour de Fleece starts in July and I plan to join in this year.

I’ve finally resolved to finish this Mkal I’ve been working on for ages, but set it aside when I didn’t like where it seemed to be going. It will be a gift the future mother-in-law. I can never like as I’ve spent way to much time with it.

And then there’s this thing. Which I’ve frogged twice,  after trying lace/stocking knit/short rows and some funky garter stitch graphic row thing. I’m still messing with it, but whatever. It’s been nice to knit something I don’t care about and yarn I care even less about. There’s no real investment tied up in it you know?