Last weekend, I traveled down to the cities to hang out with college friends for a tea party-themed Bridal Shower. Specifically, the Bridal Shower for my good friend Kim.
Yes, the Kim I'm making the Snowflake Shawl for.
We had a great time hanging out, talking, and playing the traditional ridiculous bridal shower games. When cleaning up the house after it was over, I got to hear some wedding details about the wedding coming up in just over a month.
It wasn't until the drive home that I realized exactly what this meant.
The wedding is on January 5th. That means I have just about 6 weeks to finish the backgrounds for all the snowflakes, graft them together, and knit the border around the whole shebang. I have to knit 3-4 backgrounds a week to give myself enough time to do the finishing details around Christmas, especially since I'll be traveling down to visit my parents in Florida for a week at Christmas.
This is, of course, ignoring the fact that I have papers to grade, choreographing to do, not to mention climbing, yoga, and running.
I have one snowflake done:
but got a little stuck on the second one.
Sometimes I keep knitting, because I think it'll be fine, but actually it's more like an amoeba and looks stupid and then... and then...
then I finally had to pull it all out to start over.
This makes it a little more difficult to be efficient.
That may be an (empty) glass of wine next to my knitting.
Let the snowflake craziness begin.
Uffda... what have I got myself into?
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