Yes, it’s that time of year again. Wintergrass, the annual bluegrass festival held in Tacoma, starts tonight and runs through Sunday evening. As usual, I have tickets for the entire festival. I also have my knitting lined up.
The Peacock Shawl is not one of the things that I’ll be taking. It’s not so difficult that I can’t work on it when chatting or being sociable, but it is definitely not something I’d want to work on in near darkness while the fiddles are playing. Here are a couple of progress photos.
It’s just really difficult to get a good photo of this at this point. It is going to be one huge shawl when it’s done, since the pattern calls for laceweight yarn, and this stuff (Blue Heron Mercerized Cotton) is somewhere between a heavy laceweight and fingering weight. I have 50-some rows to go, and the rows are close to 400 stitches at this point. It’s taking me a little over half an hour to get across one of the knit-side rows. The wrong-side purl rows go a little faster, but not much.
What I am taking to Wintergrass is socks. I have two pairs of socks in progress, both at a point where I can just knit around and around in circles mindlessly. I’m also still working on that True Blue sweater, and have just finished the back and have the front started so I can knit away on that as well for a little variety. I’ll show photos of those next time.
I’ll leave you with a photo of Lewey. He frequently can be found sitting by our kitchen windows, with his chin resting on the window ledge. He just likes watching the animal activity in the back yard, especially the birds.
I’m off to listen to the banjos!
beautiful!
Have fun at the festival!
ps. check out my facebook soon… I plan to post pictures of my new San Francisco Sock Company Socks I bought…as I wear them I will take pictures! LOL!
Have fun!! 400 stitches… each way?! Yikes.
Have fun! The shawl is looking so lovely. I really like the color. And I have a cute picture of Maggie looking out that very window!!
The shawl is beautiful! Can’t go wrong with Blue Heron anything. Lewey is so cute!!
That’s looking beautiful! Have a great time!
The Peacock Shawl is beautiful!! I love how those colors are working out.
Have fun at Wintergrass!!!! 🙂
Really beautiful! I can’t wait to see your progress.
The shawl is beautiful! I can’t wait for an update on the festival! Lewey is such a handsome man…..
Have fun! Mindless stockinette sounds realistic.
Beautiful colors for that shawl! I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product.
Enjoy the festival!
Love good bluegrass . . . You’re lucky.
Our little Rupert is a chin-rester, too.
Have fun, and the shawl is lovely! :o)
love the shawl, can’t wait to see it finished!
Nice of you to have a window just the right height for Lewey’s chin! The shawl is gorgeous but, yes, probably not bluegrass festival material, I suppose!
Beautiful! Is that dental floss for lifelines? I haven’t tried that yet.
Looks good. Sounds good. Lewey is adorable in that wistful pose.