Sunday, January 12, 2020

Whenever I work a knitting or crochet pattern with yarn not necessarily recommended in the pattern I’m always concerned that I’ll have enough yarn, or if I need to make it smaller than the pattern, will it look odd. I finished another shawl last night and although it wasn’t the yarn called for in the pattern I got bored with it so finished it off with one ball and a bit left over. I’m working on a scarf with that now.

When I’m baking (not often), particularly if it is on the spur of the moment, I’m often looking for substitutes for ingredients I don’t have. I’ve learned that cocoa and butter can replace bar chocolate, milk can be soured if needed (because who keeps sour milk in their fridge), and most other uncommon ingredients can be replaced with something more common. I even have a conversion chart for changing “regular” recipes into a crock pot version.

I’ve been dealing with copyright issues for the Hall and it makes me remember that you used to be able to say if you changed a stitch in a pattern you weren’t actually breaking the copyright laws. I think it is a good thing that has change.

As I put the last stitches into the Princess and the Pea I’m having to make some adjustments. Somewhere near the middle I missed a row so I have to make that up (and I mean make it up) now that I’m at the bottom. In some of the last rows some of the colours have more stitches than they should which means some of the other rows have to have less. I made a decision early on that I wouldn’t be unstitching anything so I knew there would be adjustments.

As these last stitches go in I’m hopeful that the bedpost and bed railing meet on the same line. If they don’t, they can be adjusted.