Is it time to panic?

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Jen is arriving tomorrow for a day of divinity. This is a fudge like candy that is typically made around the holidays. After hearing about my marshmallow recipe, she suggested we try divinity – perhaps it is the next step in my candy making education.

So, why panic? Jen is a lovely, reasonable woman. She is smart. She is funny. She knits.

It sounds like an ideal day doesn’t it – what’s the problem?

Have you read her site? Do you get that she is a gourmet cook?

I am going to make us lunch.

I’m sweating already.

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thank you so much for your Kimono Shawl compliments! The pattern was fairly easy and it would make a good intro to lace project. The only drawback is the length involved and how tedious that becomes …… which many would say is a factor in any lace project.

I have started another project which I have neither mentioned here on ye olde blogge nor have I photographed. Along with fellow knitters Ricki and Peggy, I am knitting a sampler using The Sweater Workshop by Jacqueline Fee. To be honest, I didn’t anticipate getting all that much from this book — boy was I ever wrong! I would highly recommend to every knitter that they knit up one of these samplers. There is always something to learn it seems!

I have six more rows to finish Icarus. There are now 483 stitches on the needles.

So close I can almost feel it wrapped around my shoulders ….. so far that it may never get done. It shimmers like a mirage on my horizon.

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Does it look like The Scarf That Doesn’t End? Knitting it certainly felt like it! and this is the unblocked photo – I am waiting for a towel to come out of the washer to begin the blocking process.

Now I can concentrate on finishing Icarus. This project is so close to being done, but the stitch count is high …. 400 +/row …… so each row is taking a long time to get through.

Mr. Boar loved all your birthday comments! who knew he was such an attention whore? There’s not enough room in this house for two of us!

speaking of birthday accolades …… go sing Vicki a birthday tune!