My garter knit, Shetland lace christening gown is done at last. Except for blocking, buttons, button loops and armhole bands. But I am calling it done anyway, as it is my perogative.

It is nice to have finally completed some Shetland lace. It does take an awfully long time and it is rather fussy. I like fussy though, so I have been enjoying this particular garment. Enough to try it a second time, as a matter of fact. I do that — kinit patterns twice. Sometimes more. I get bored with a pattern the first time I try it, so if I find one that can hold my attention through to the end, I will do it again.

Plus, I have different categories of knitting — stuff I can do while reading or watching tv, stuff I can do waiting for appointments and stuff that requires a great percentage of my brain. I do the latter projects when fluffy puppy Duncan settles down for the night.

This afternoonm I was outside in the shade working on the center of a shawl (easy repeats), listening to an audio book and the next thing I know I was waking up from a cat nap. It felt so decadent! Thank goodness the shawl didn’t suffer from my laziness.

Although this isn’t the most exciting post ever written, I thought I’d better get back to the old blog and update the world about my latest knitting activities. Do you think the world is reading it, and breathlessly waiting form the next update? No, I don’t think so either.

I waited in line for an Iphone yesterday. Didn’t get one, because the store only had 20 and sold a bunch just to one family (little kids and all). So no more of that sort of thing for me. I don’t need to be in the cattle line for something I’m paying for. They can come and get me.

While I waited in line, I worked on a sock. Got a lot done, too. And had a few questions asked of me. One was a yound guy asking to borrow a needle so he could poke the man with the Iphone who was sitting on the ground outside of the store activating it on his laptop. Show off. If I wasn’t sure the act would break the needle, I would have lent it to him.

The waiting-in-line sock was the second one in tiger-stripe yarn by some yarn company whose name escapes me. It really is pretty cool. I’m using a toe-up design and have very little ribbing because I didn’t want to break up the stripes. The first one fit well even without the ribbing, so I am happy.

On the lace knitting front, I am working on an Orenburg shawl. Already found one little pattern error that was easily fixed. It still kinkd of ticks me off. Oh well, I should know that with publishing comes mistakes. Who knows what typos this blog has? (Just fixed one, as a matter of fact!)