Progress on works in progress this week has been reasonable, but not impressive.
I have finished the bamboo baby blankie.
I'm really pleased with how it turned out. It was
a very simple pattern--stockinette, with regular increases every other round. (You mathematicians can tell me why increasing ten stitches every other round creates a circle. You can also tell me what shape it is when you accidentally increase twenty stitches every other round. Some sort of three-dimensional something that looks like it should have a proper name.) You could use it with any yarn, really--gauge doesn't matter one whit. You just keep knitting until you feel like stopping. (Or until you run out of yarn.)
When I felt like stopping (and when I was running out of yarn), I added a decorative border:
It looks pretty, but not feminine. Which is good, because I don't know which baby this is going to yet. I suddenly have lots to choose from!!!
I still have to wash and block it, though. I think it'll get a little bigger, and I may even turn it into a decagon rather than a circle. Having just looked up the mathematical formula for the area of a decagon, I hereby declare that you mathematicians can't tell me
anything about decagons. Holy frackazoid. If you try, I'm going to start talking about the difference between substance and persona.
I also finished one Jitterbug sock.
It's an alternating rib-twisted stitch pattern. Toe-up, with short-row toes and heels. As I said before, I love, love, love the yarn. My real camera isn't any better than my computer camera, evidently. I'm telling you, it glows. Like stained glass windows.
I'm keeping these socks for myself. Just so's you don't get hopeful.
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I don't have words to express how deeply it pleases me to learn that there is a person in the world who has looked up the formula for the area of a decagon in the course of her everyday life.
The sparklies in the socks show up on my computer! They are lovely, and the blanket turned out very pretty.