Once upon a time I planned to make three or four dishcloths for my mother-in-law. Then I thought I would make a couple for each of the ladies who had expressed an appreciation for handknit dishcloths. Then, of course, I forgot who I had been talking to and presented two dishcloths to someone who had no interest in them and now suspects that I'm weird. And here it is eons later and I still have a bunch of dishcloths to knit.



That's what, four and a half? So if I do three for mother-in-law and two for each of the ladies who actually wanted them (can you sense the V-8 forehead slap happening repeatedly?) I still have two and a half to go.

No problem.

The Flowing River shawl has not been abandoned. Yet. No, I didn't say that. I am working on the edging and I see no reason why I shouldn't finish it before the next Olympics, to chose a random distant event.



Of course, being the me that I am, it is not going smoothly. Fortunately, I am fully aware of the me that I am and am employing lifelines liberally. This very night I had finished one 10-row repeat and was starting another when my stitch count went inexplicably haywire and I ended up ripping back to the lifeline that I had wisely inserted this morning. So now I'm back to where I was about 12 hours ago, which really isn't that drastic in the grand scheme of things. And, just to clarify, it did not take 12 hours to knit the 10-row repeat. It might, however, have taken nearly 12 hours to psych myself to do it.

In only slightly related news, I received the brochure for the Creativ festival in the mail today (what do these people have against that final "e", and are they related to the folks at Pet Valu?) and it looks way cool. I've never attended before, though I always plan to, but this time I think I really will make a major effort to go. The brochure can be found here. Check out the Knitter's Market on page 18-19.

I'm still trying to figure out whether I'm going to be able to make it to the Spinrite tent sale in Listowel this year. If the stars align perfectly I might be able to go on one of the Fridays. Not that I need any more cheap yarn, but you know. It's yarn and it's cheap.