Building a Mystery

You're so beautiful

With an edge and charm

but so careful

When I'm in your arms

Cause you're working

Building a mystery

Holding on and holding it in

Yeah you're working

Building a mystery

And choosing so carefully.

-- Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan

I've been living these lyrics for the past few evenings, and finally completed Clue 2 on the MS3. I have to wait until Things 1 & 2 are either in bed or doing something with Necropolis, because I really have to concentrate and count on this thing. With this past clue, I got stuck at line 139 (of 150) and couldn't resolve it, so this one spent some time in the bag while I came back from frustration land and could sit down with fresh eyes. I finally had to frog about 10 rows and re knit from where I *knew* I was correct. I should have just done that from the beginning, because after I did that, the thing knitted up fairly easily. In the next couple of days, I'll pick up Clue 3 and hopefully I'll be finished by Friday and on track when Clue 4 comes out.

But because it's NEVER enough, late last night after finishing Clue 2, I picked up some crochet cotton and started trying my hand at center knit whitework. I'm not really using any particular pattern, but I found some old style things here, and I'm working on piecing some of them together like Frankenstein's monster. The problem is the notations are majorly strange. I don't know if it's me or the pattern, but after a dozen mis-starts, I finally just decided to use the pattern as a guide and do what works for me. So far, that seems to be working. Here's the current project.

And, all that whining I did in my last post about lack of fiber? Oh ye of little faith. This was waiting from The Jolly Postman when I returned home from the mountains.