Twenty Seven Weeks and Three Days to Go

That's how long I have to complete my entries for the 2016 Harrow Fair.  I have 4 on the go that need to be completed and 22 entries that I have not yet started.  Can I finish one a week?  I keep trying and here is progress this week.

The baby sweater is not quite assembled.  Only the sleeve seams and buttons to do.

The gansey upper chest decoration is started and I am at the point of separating the front and back.  It is a fun knit but not suited to hockey knitting.

For Tuesday's game against Mooretown I started these.

These are felted slippers Version II - Elf Slippers from the Paton's booklet Next Steps Four Socks and Slippers.  The yarn is Classic Wool from my stash.  Once the collar is finished I will toss them in the washing machine to felt.  I have little control over the felting process so there is the chance they will not fit the intended recipient.

The last felted  pair I made ended up too big for me so I gave them to Hubby.  He never wore them so I gave them to my brother who loved them and wore them a lot.  Too bad one accidentally got mixed up in the laundry and felted some more.  He now has a mixed matched set.  I suggested he wash the other one and give the smaller pair to a daughter.  I am counting on these remaining big enough to fit Tony.  Fingers crossed.

Essex won 2-1.  They have gone on to win 4-1 in Mooretown on Wednesday  8-1 last night in Essex.  There may only be one more game in this series tomorrow night in Mooretown.  Hubby says if they are going to keep this pattern going, Essex will have to win 16-1.

Hubby and I did not attend the game last night.  We had made other plans to see Menopause The Musical at the Colosseum at the Windsor Casino.  I wanted some simple knitting. Ta Da!

It may be simple but I made a mistake early on and it needs to be ripped out.  I noticed the error as the house lights went down so I could not fix it and could not knit on it during the show.  Didn't matter.  I was laughing so hard I could not have knit anyway.  I loved the show.  Hubby thought it was a one-joke show and went on too long.

My original plan was to knit the Swallowtail Shawl.  This has been on my to-do list since I first picked up the Fall 2006 issue of Interweave Knits. For weeks now I have had the magazine out, the needles marking the page and the yarn picked out.  I did not cast on. I don't know why.

Earlier this week one of my friends in the Essex Library Group on Ravelry suggested we have a knit-along for this pattern.  It can be done in lace weight and I checked that I have enough  in my stash of the Magic Garden Classic 100% Polwarth yarn I was planning for the Swallowtail. I think it will be fun to knit as a group.  The endless stockinette at the beginning of the shawl will be perfect for hockey knitting.  I am in!  Swallowtail can wait.  Turns out it was only the yarn screaming to be knit up.  It was just getting too yappy.  The balls have quieted now that I have started -  even though I have to rip it out.

I set up for the photos for this post and left stuff in place when I started writing.  Reba decided to take advantage.  She has always liked to lay on my knitting stuff.  Her earliest puppy photos are of her asleep on my project bag.  Here she is today.

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