Yet another project

So, last week as I was working on the lace pattern shrug I've been putting together I realized that somehow I had cast on 32 stitches for the left sleeve and only 24 for the right. The shrug is worked in one piece and the sleeves are cast on dolman style. Of course, I only found the error when I was actually finished with the sleeve section. I thought of many different things I could do, but really that's an unfixable error so... the shrug is currently back to balls of yarn and I'll have to start over. Seriously Disgusted. HOW did I MISS THAT?

To console myself I turned this giant hank of yarn:

Into a giant ball of yarn (which took a while). I think guesstimating that there's about 1600 yards in this hank. So... to ease my pain I cast on for Clapotis. Because, hey, everyone else has one so I should have one too. I like it so far, and there's no sleeves to make me crazy and I've got plenty of yarn.

Summer Vacation

Well, sort've. I'm going to be the math department chair next year which apparently has a lot of various things that have to be done over the summer. Hmmm... gotta figure out some nice relaxing stuff to do so that I'm ready for the next school year.

In Knitting News:
I am FINISHED with my friend's lace wedding shawl. I ended up with 11 pattern repeats instead of the 13 the pattern calls for. I really enjoyed this pattern, it was a very good introductory lace pattern. After the first repeat it also got fairly easy to determine where I was in the pattern and if things were lining up correctly. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I steam blocked it and it easily blocked to 70" long which should be perfect for a shoulder wrap. I might make this again for myself, but... longer. And well, NOT in off-white. I also wonder what it would look like in garter stitch.

School's OUT!

Last day of school happened, I finished everything I needed to get done, which is amazing and now the summer. Ahhh...

My son's HS Graduation went well as shown by this awesome pic. My daughter is on the left. I'm cute but not as cute as she is. Of course, she's my kid so I have to say that.

So, both kids now graduated from High School and in college or college-bound. Yay!

Knitting has progressed as well, I'm on repeat 10 of the lace shawl, no pic, cause it looks the same as the last pic, just longer. I've restarted Angie's Aran sweater, and as you can see it's almost back to where I pulled it apart last time. I'm doing front and back circularly this time so that it's all in one piece, so really it's farther along. However, I think I'm going to have to go a search for more of the yarn, as it's not going to be enough.

If it's not one thing - it's another.