Ogee tunic and travel knitting

OK, so the fiddling around with the new blog continues, but let’s get caught up for now, shall we?

At the moment I’m rather monogamously working on the Ogee Tunic, and have the front and both sleeves finished. I’ve just started the back and am about halfway through the pattern at the bottom, which will of course match the front you see here:

Front and sleeves of Ogee Tunic

A very enjoyable knit so far, and other than having to do some minor surgery to fix the middle cable that crossed wrong, it has gone very smoothly. For anyone planning to knit this: follow the chart symbols and NOT the written explanation of them – there’s a mistake in the written part for the cable where the neckline splits, and this mistake doesn’t show up on the errata page…probably because the chart itself is correct.

I’m new to both cables and reading charts, so I followed the written part and, well, “oops”. I was so busy getting through each row that I didn’t notice the mistake until later, although it was very obvious. I doubt this would happen to somebody more experienced, however.

I’ll have to lay this project aside for the next three days though, because tomorrow morning at dark o’clock R. and I are boarding a plane for London. We’re celebrating our wedding anniversary (which is actually today) with a long weekend in one of our favorite cities. We have a wonderful bed and breakfast booked, a friend is staying at our place to house- and cat-sit so we don’t have to worry about anything at home, and I have a ticket to the I Knit Day event including the Yarn Harlot reading on Saturday. Can you beat that?

In celebration I even went to the hairdresser yesterday…my first appointment in more than a year! She had to take off A LOT of hair because my hair was really dry and kaputt. Along with its new color, I’m quite happy with it. (Sorry for the blurry photo.)

A new 'do

I’ll be back early next week with a report on I Knit Day – and hopefully with lots of photos too. I’m loading up the camera batteries at this very moment…now I just have to remember to pack it!

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