third time's a repeat

A lot has happened in the past week, a death, a funeral, and quite a bit of stitching. in the pattern after row 6 you repeat rows 3-6 again until you get the desired length. I've repeated my sets of rows twice and it looks like the picture, of course it is a bit hard to see everything since mine is about 57 inches wide.

 

A closer look at the cable panel:

 

A closer look at the Lattice Panel:

At the end of the week the lessons that are learned are never fight with sibling at the funeral of a parent, some things are best learned by proxy, and that sometimes it's good to challenge yourself to do a new set of stitches, even if it means you spend time working on something smaller for those few stitches, but it's good to learn how to make something pretty.

 

Are you working on something that might be fun?

Row two

As I work with this pattern I have to learn a few new stitches and so I'm working on a practice of the cable panel, and for my second row I've already taken it out to the start because I realized that I didn't get the stitches right, mainly because of my understanding or lack of reading the second part.

(bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next st, PC{popcorn!} in next dc,
bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2  sts, FC6FT over next 6 stiches, bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next stitch, PC{popcorn!} in next dc, bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2 sts)

For something I found out about recently, check out this, I rate it PG for the implied violence at the end.

I have also worked a bit on the lattice panel, which I'm also wondering occasionally if I'm in over my head. I got into row four during lunch today on my practice piece.

I might get an image of what I have worked up of the real thing when I'm finished with the second row from end to end, Which is always a challenge to get it correct from end to end.

chain one

A while ago I got the challenge to blog daily, I more of blog weakly, but then I was reminded of it yesterday, and while at work I was thinking about things, and how my days and weeks are pretty much the same. My fancy job title is Microfilm Technician, what do I really do? I sit mainly at a camera and film, page by page different periodicals, such as Federal Register, Congressional Record, Readers digest, popular photography, and several other titles that I can't remember.

My thought today was that I should try and use the blog to help me stay motivated on learning how to do something other then yet another Ripple Afghan. I'm on my... (Christmas yarn afghan for mom, double bed size that went to my mother-in-law, the queen size that I still have, the one to share at church, the one I did for my niece) oh dear, I'm on my 6th ripple afghan.

So when on Friday I saw a pattern that looked interesting, and knowing that for the ripple afghan that I couldn't manage to read the patterns back then I thought that this might be a good challenge. For anyone who might like to follow along with me, or tell me I'm doing it all wrong, you can find the pattern here. I'm using my favorite yarn to work with because I only buy it on sale, and when I do buy it I stock up, So I'm not sure yet if this will just be purple or purple and blue. I'll let people give me feedback when I get far enough along to need another skein.

Well, this is the end of my first post. Yay! I'll add pictures to the next one.