Shawls & Rugby World Cup weekend 1Well, I'm still doing trapezoids and I've over 600 stitches on the needle. When I picked up my stitches (thank heavens for yarnovers beginning every row), I knew my trapezoids were not going to be pure garter. After some fiddling about I began working a bird's eye band.That bit of genius was made more difficult than it needed to be because I had not decreased all the way down to a single stitch - if down to 1 stitch each round begins and ends at a corner stitch and each trapezoid works up the same. With 3 stitches to end, each round begins and ends in the 1st trapezoid. Trust me, if you embark on such a project, work down to 1 stitch so all 4 of your trapezoids follow the same chart. After much knitting, re-knitting, and gnashing of teeth, I was finally making progress. On the 1st weekend of the Rugby World cup, I'd only 4 more rows of the birds eye band to complete when I took it along to the tape delay broadcast of the Wales/Argentina and Fiji/Namibia Rugby World Cup fixtures. . . I seemed to be doing really quite all right but, there I was at the last trapezoid in the round of the birds eye band when --oops, 1 stitch off. It looked almost okay and I thought I'd be able to live with it. The next day's matches found me tinking and trying to figure out exactly where I went wrong while watching the Australia /Romania match -- tinking successful, figuring out not. Rugby & Knitting -- weekend 2This weekend was much better. I finished the bird's eye band while listening to, but not watching, the action on the pitch and have proceeded to the final garter band of the trapezoids. It is going so well that I managed to knit my way through both the NZ/England and the US/Romania fixtures without an obvious error.I was pleasantly surprised to see that the crowd for the NZ/England match was largely an All Blacks crowd. What can I say? When it comes to rugby, I'm a "if not Wales then NZ" kind of fan. But the interesting thing is that the New Zealand fans that I spoke with knew the difference between knitting and cr*chet. On the Sunday, didn't stay for the Italy/Tonga match choosing instead to KIP while walking to and around the beach -- just for a change. |
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