Well, I've been in here working at my computer all night tonight rather than knitting, but I figured I should post a last update on Kiri before the Olympics end. As expected, I'm not done. I guess I could have been, but a few projects have been in my way this week, and since we're hitting the road, Kiri will just have to be finished after the final medals are awarded -- which means I'm not taking it with me. I'm taking something - but not Kiri. It is going well though. I've really settled into the pattern finally. You know that moment when you're knitting lace and suddenly you "see" some connection to the rows before and the pattern starts to become clear. Well, it's not really a moment. Instead, it's a nanosecond of recognition that floats in and out of my consciousness repeatedly for a long time before it really hits me that the "click" has happened. I think it's this click that is for me part of the magic of lace knitting. No matter how I might struggle with a pattern. No matter how many times I unknit. No matter how much I rail... eventually, it clicks, and it's magic.
The "click" finally happened with Kiri recently in that I suddenly saw the relationship between the single knit between the yarnovers in each repeat and how the lined up with a single knit column in the rows before. I guess I should have noticed it earlier on, but I think I was focusing so intently on each row that I wasn't really "reading" the rows before and looking at how the rows were feeding together. At any rate, knowing the single knit lines up with the column gives me a good visual every 12 stitches of whether or not my placement and count was working out, which is nice because of the problem with using markers with Kiri. (I'm sitll using some, but sort of haphazardly now... just enough to give me some order across a row, but not marking every repeat.)
I'm through the 9th repeat now. I'm hoping to finish 10 and then determine if it will be big enough to do the edging or if I need to try and find another ball of this colorway to do the 12 listed in the pattern. I'm hoping if 10 looks good that I'll have enough to finish the edging. It feels a bit like a potshot trying to guess "where" to stop in order to have enough to finish up. But, I'm thinking 10 might work. We'll see. No new picture. It looks the same as the steering wheel shot from last weekend... just bigger.
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