my body is getting better - but I'm having and "AUGH!" moment with my knitting (remember how Lucy always pulled the ball away from charlie brown?  well, my knitting is Lucy)  I've been knitting tiny squares like crazy again, and while it seemed like I had a long way to go, every time I did the math, I was almost to 20% done, and math doesn't lie, right?  Right?

Well - I've been counting the squares horizontally.  Tip to tip I have 26 squares across.  Figuring that a blanket is longer then it is wide, I knew I'd need 30 or 32 rows total.  And I've already finished row 6!  6 divided by 30 and multiply by 100 = 20% this is easy math!



Can you count the 6 rows there?  I've been counting my squares tip to tip - and my rows zig-zagging back and forth.  This means I need 60-64 rows.  I'm only just barely 10% done.  AUGH!

But it's ok, I've been distracted:


Three, THREE! Alice Starmore knitting books.  The shapes of the sweaters (and some of the colors in the men's sweaters) are a bit dated.  But the patterns - oh man.  Starmore's fair isle colorwork and cables are AMAZING.  But I'm not allowed to start a new project until one of my other projects is done.  Patience is hard sometimes!

Oh, and if anyone has a copy of Aran Knitting by her just lying around - feel free to send it my way!