Tcepsa's Thoughts

This is belated, but that doesn't make it any less of a reason for celebration: I finished the CandleFlame shawl (just) in time for Mom to wear it to Thanksgiving dinner! ^_^ Pictures will be forthcoming (just got the pictures off my camera late last night, so hopefully will get them formatted and posted in the next day or so. In the meantime, though, it came out to be something like 45,000 stitches. That's a massively high-water mark for me so far. Of course, I also did it over the course of about eight months. Still, that is probably the longest project that I have ever completed (with the possible exception of my chainmail tanktop vest). I'm very pleased with myself for being able to see it through to the end.

I think the part that I'm most proud of myself for doing, though, is that instead of doing the original vertical garter stitch border, I developed ( a variation of the pattern itself. )

For now, I'm going to focus on my Einstein coat, my tabi socks, and developing my continental skills.