The other day it occurred to me that Secret of the Stole starts ONE WEEK from today. This will be my first knitalong, and a lace one on top of it, and a *mystery* lace one on top of that!

So I kicked myself in the pants and picked up my Shoulder Shawl in Cherry Leaf Pattern from Victorian Lace Today. This week I did a couple repeats on it and I only have 4 left till I am done! I’m almost certain that I’ll leave the edging off because I like the way it looks right now, without it. Plus I want to have this done in time for the start of SotS, so I’m going to work on it this weekend and hopefully will finish soon.

I think knitting with a lifeline is SUCH a relief–I don’t stress over my stitches because I know that I can rip it out if I need to and won’t have to lose all my work! I’ve been moving up the lifeline at the start of a new repeat, which has worked well. One repeat at a time. I’m not worried too much about the forthcoming blocking process either, as I have a set of blocking wires all ready to be used!

ooh! And today I *finally* received another Knit Picks catalog! I hadn’t been getting any since I moved back to Virginia–6 MONTHS AGO. Can you believe I have been back that long? sheesh. It’s crazy…anyway, I guess KP put my new mailing address back on their distribution list when I ordered a couple books a few weeks ago, so now I’m getting the catalogs again. woohoo!