FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You might have been wondering where I have been for the last few days of my crafting week, and the answer would be getting my arse kicked by: That's right--the kimono shawl, which upuntil this week has been a pretty well behaved project. Being a gracious and loving knitter, I was willing to overlook the insane amount of time it was taking to finish. After all, good things come to she who waits.....or so I've been told because being a very impatient person, I have never really tried that theory out. But THEN it had the temerity to force me to cast off FIVE TIMES before it stopped puckering. Okay, you can't really see it, but it was there. This is a picture of the 4th cast-off using a needle two sizes larger than the 4 I was working with, and it STILL pulled the lace too tight. On the 5th try, I made every stitch so large that I think Theo could have jumped through the darn things, and finally, finally FINALLY have a finished object! AND I'm down to 1...