It’s been over two weeks since my last blog entry…..let me tell you why!

A week or so ago, I was getting ready to take some pictures of my Mystery Stole 3 project, but I couldn’t find it.  I had completed clue 2 and thought I would post my progress prior to starting on clue 3. 

For an entire week, I searched for my knitting. I looked in the shop, upstairs in the bedroom, then down again in the family room.  I have hunted everywhere and back-tracked my footsteps trying to remember where I had it last.  No luck!

A few days later,  I finally find it and I’m Stupified!  Something has happened to it! It’s only half the size that it used to be!  After close examination, I come to the conclusion that it appears to be worked only through clue 1.  How could that have happened??  I didn’t drop a stitch, have the wrong number of stitches, forget a yarn over or find a mistake where I had to frog it back 76 2 rows.  Now I’ll never catch up!

Well…I quickly exhaled a muggle-repelling charm, slammed the door and laid my knitting in the chair.  I sat back in my own chair… tried to think of happy thoughts and contemplate my problem.  The phone began to ring and as I reached for it I called out “Reparo”!  Without hesitation the knitting charm was invoked and the needles began clacking away. 

Now being the Girl Scout leader that I am…honest and fair, I did disarm the spell after clue 2, I do not want to cheat.  I reasoned that since I had knitted clue 2 once already and it was some Time Turner spell that had frogged it back to where I was several days ago, that it was only fair to use another charm to get it to a state where it’s ready for clue 3.

So, hear you have it.  I’m using Alpaca With A Twist Fino in Champagne.  Inox Straights size 4 and Size 8/0 seed beads in Egg Shell from the Bead Wrangler.

And a closer look…

Off to start clue 3!