Aliens and Knitting

Back from road trips and Memorial weekend weddings. I got some knitting done but not a whole lot as I would have thought but that can be made up this weekend.  Syfy Channel has a Alien movie marathon today preempting the upcoming Prometheus so after a fun day shopping at the mall earlier today (something I've been wanting to do for a while) I'm sitting back and relaxing with my lace destashing projects.

The "Good Morning Sunshine Shawlette" is in the boyfriend's car because I didn't want to risk its needles being confiscated when I flew back as he continued on his road trip to visit family for the next couple days.  In the meanwhile. I started "My Heaven" and "Cloud Drift" side by side.  "My Heaven" is definitely a treat to knit and I've finished about 10 of the first 22 or 27 repeats for one side of the edging.  I haven't decided if i want to do the small or the large version but I'll figure that out when I get to 22 if I want to move forwad or sit down and power through another 5 repeats.  Mostly likely I'll bunker down for the large side as its not that many more repeats as I have more than enough Alpaca Cloud in Carob Heather for it.

The second shawl, "Cloud Drift" is going smashingly faster than the "My Heaven" even though there are more stitches to work with per row (143 in "Cloud Drift" center panel vs 23-27 in the edge of "My Heaven") but it's just so mindnumbingly relaxing with "Cloud Drift' that those rows fly by vs the chart problems that arise in "My Heaven."  Let's just say that the writer for "My Heaven" wrote the chart in an odd way where the icons don't change meaning for even and odd rows which causes me a double-take when I see a "/" vs a "\" or even just a simple "o" symbol because I am so used to the symbol meaning changes when moving my eyes along the pattern in the charts reading left to right and right to left.  There is, however, written out directions for the charts which I really should just follow although I will scratch out when they mean to "k1 p1" in one stitch to just scratch out "into yo" because my fast knitting brain immediately things to make a yo everytime and thus making extra stitches without thinking only to get frustrated and either rip back or drop the extra stitch.  Thus..."Cloud Drift" has become my mindless knitting project with its simple rows and relaxing all knit alternate rows.  Pics will eventually follow when I get my camera back.