Swatch-tastic Fair-Isle
Okay here is my swatch, I had to rip half of it and re-do it and re-organize the colors to get the contrast correct. So my color replacment didn't exactly work but we there are pretty much 12 colors with 1 ball each so you can re-organize them any way you want. I just reversed the order for the green/blue in the circles so that the darkest blue was up against that shetland black. I'm not technically done with the swatch but wanted to share :)
Size 2 needles - I havn't measured for Gauge yet.
It's hard to photograph it, I think it needs outside light as it blends better but above is a flash and no-flash photo. Then here is the back of my first REAL fair isle!
I'm so proud! My husband is very amused, he said "Why would you want to knit something that hard?" I said well it's not really that hard but it is intimidating so thats why I like it. It's a challange. I knit Continental style, so I either A) hold both colors in my left hand if its lots of quick switches or B) I drop one color when I am working on a longer strand that is 3+ stitches wide.
I took Friday off of work due to my back pain and spoke to the doc for a little while. They want me to try a maternity belt thingy so we need to go out and get one today. If I lay down in the bed in a certain position I can make the pain go away, but if I sit up like in bed or in a chair, or try to do tasks that require leaning forward or using my arms too much it gets a bit painful. Kinda sucks because overall I feel FINE, it's just all in my back. I'm really not misrable other wise though the back is making me pretty frustrated if I have to do anything, such as deal with work or any stress. Just trying to do a few things around the house last night for when my husband brought friends over was very painful. I was lighting candles and just putting a few things away. Or even trying to fix something to eat hurts.
Work asked me to go out on friday to interview people at stores, after I had told them I had to take friday off. Now I know they would not have made me go, but I couldn't believe I was asked at nearly 38 weeks to go out in 100 degree weather, by myself around Atlanta like that. I only have 5 days left of work! I have a doc apointment Monday so it may wind up I stop working sooner due to the back issue. We'll see what happens on monday.
