so I recently picked back up my wheat and flowers shawl, which I realize now I never posted about on tumblr (or if I did I can't find the posts about it), and yall this bitch
so this shawl is an amalgam of bullshit, right? like the center is a big fuckoff square knit back and forth and based on shetland lace patterns (I think it's called The Twins, but I went for it because it looks like honeycomb) and some estonian patterns I kludged together into a bee shape, then picked up all the sides and knit out from the center from there, right?
and then from there it transitions into a pretty standard mesh of brick-stacked [\OO/] shapes, with the double yarn over getting knit then purled so you do get four stitches to work with out of each four stitches you used on the previous row
and THEN, what EMERGES from that mesh is inward-pointing sheaves of wheat and bunches of flowers, so that by the time that border is finished (currently it is NOT), the end of the border is the "ground" from which the wheat and flowers are growing. These are all various Niebling bits I stole or adapted into the shapes that I want, from a ton of magazines from like. I dunno, the 40s I think?
(then I gotta figure out another small border and an edging, but that's for Later PPN, and not my current problem)
so, right now, I'm at about here in my progress diagram:
just about finishing up the lower sheaves of wheat, soon to be starting on the flowers in the corners, about half done with the shawl as a whole if you count the theoretical next border and edging, right?
to figure out where I was and what I was doing on this FUCKING chart that I WROTE because I HAD a paper pattern that I took notes on when what I thought was gonna happen needed to change, and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYMORE
so NOW I'm trying to RECREATE that chart, based on the excel file version of the original chart, using stitchmaps, and it's...
been commiserating with a friend and
anyway this is my life for the forseeable future, or at least for the rest of the afternoon