Guess what??!!  Halcyon is blocking!  it’s true, it’s true – the sweater is almost done – only seaming and the neck edge to go!

So I have been thinking about this Pi Shawl.  It occurs to me that the knitter lady might not have heard of a Pi Shawl.  That unless her pattern specifically stated Pi Shawl, she would think she was simply knitting a circular shawl.  Furthermore, when she runs into me at the Dr’s office and I ask her about Pi, she might not have thought I was a knitter, but instead thought I was a mathematician!  who knows ….. but the end of the story is that no matter how I contorted myself, she never noticed my socks. 

Also the other end of the story is that seeing this Pi Shawl in person has confirmed what I always suspected — those things are weird looking.  I just don’t understand the point of it — you go to the trouble of knitting a gigantic circle but to wear it you have to double it over.  Why not just knit a triangular shawl?

Furthermore, I think it only looks good on Pre-raphealite models posing in field of larkspur.  On post-raphealite ladies wearing velour tracksuits in dr’s offices – not so good.

and babies, I am only a tracksuit away……