Thank You Alfred Hitchcock!
Last night--and I can't imagine why this seemed like a good idea even after a martini--I decided to watch an Alfred Hitchcock movie to "unwind" before bed. Two hours later I was wide awake, shaking like our washer on "fast spin," and squealing "Eke!" at every noise in the house. So, while there wasn't much sleep, there WAS a fair bit of frightened, neurotic knitting (which works best for lace because you later block the daylights out of it anyway), so.... I have finally finished that monstrous 600-yard skein of laceweight and am about 5 rows into the second. Thank heaven & all the little knitting gods, this shawl will not take all 600 yards of this skein. I don't think I have the strength. I don't think Theo does either. The ham. And today's exciting news.....Andy finished the dowel & finials (little end things) for the tapestry, so we hung it in the guest room. I think it's the picture that is crooked and not the...