First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who came out of lurk-dom to leave me a comment over the last couple of days. I truly appreciate the effort you took. It made my day. Truly.

In fact, I felt so good that I finally felted the clogs I knit back in October. Honestly, I have no idea why I waited so long to felt these. Now that they’re felted, I’m eager to wear them. The KnitPicks Wool of the Andes yarn that I used felted up like a dream. Even after close inspection, it’s hard to tell that they started out their lives knit. I used two balls of Forrest Heather, and three balls of Onyx Heather for the soles.

I’ve no idea at all why the foot opening for one clog is bigger than the other. None. Nada. Zip. But it is. Regardless, I loved knitting them, they felted like a dream.We’ll see how much I like wearing them… I may need to make another pair of these. Totally fun. Very satisfying.

That brings us to the shawl. I’ve decided. Part of what I knit yesterday, most of what I knit last night, will be frogged. Yup. As I’m sure you can imagine, I’m very glad that I thought to put in a lifeline. While the stitches technically fit, I don’t like the way the second row of bees lines up with the first. I want them to be centered between the existing bees, and they’re not. Drat. Up until then I’d been congratulating myself on the cleverness of my charts. Ha. That’s what I get. There are one or two other little things with the bees that I want to try to fix. While I’m at it. Hope my ideas work. We’ll see…

As we know, knitting’s been in the press quite a bit the last year or two. Here’s the latest bit I’ve come across. As reported by the BBC, knitting can help delay memory loss.

I’ve been on Berroco’s email list for ages, but haven’t shared anything with you for quite some time. Nothing’s been particularly noteworthy, worth the effort of sharing with you. This week’s newsletter has a sweater with a nice cable to it. It’s called Wishbone. I don’t know that it looks like a wishbone, at least not to me, but I like the way the little cable twines around and with the larger one.