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I finished it. Will also be cross posting separately on my pagan fiber arts blog since it was devoted to a deity and I want to talk about that but this blog is where all my fiber friends are. So! It's finished! I will eventually take pretty pictures outside in a dress or leather jacket or something I dunno. This took me exactly 18 months and 7 days. Or approximately 200 hours. It is done. Having some hard cider to share with Thor to celebrate.
I’m gonna try to knit 50,000 stitches in November. That’s the rest of chart 3 and half of the (beaded) border. And yes I am going to do all 3,000 beads. Yes I am aware that’s insane, thanks for asking.
Progress on the Shetland shawl for Eir
The project devoted to Eir is coming along well!
I knit for 5 hours today. Placed 200 beads. Because I was so close to finished that I couldn't stop knitting. It is finished. Eventually I will take some pretty pictures in it outside but right now it's drying. It took me exactly 18 months and 7 days. A rough estimate of time it took me is about 200 hours.
This was an offering to Thor. The last couple months when I was up to it (have chronic pain so hands aren't always up to it) on Thursdays I would invite him to join me, put on his playlist, and just knit in the quiet with him. It deepened our relationship in a way I didn't realize I needed. Date days will be a thing going forward, even if all I can offer him that day is making myself rest in his honor. He does get rather cranky when I don't take care of myself.
Now I'm drinking some celebratory cranberry hard cider with him and just letting it sink in that I finished something so huge, something I've been carrying with me as I moved houses, fell in love with my girlfriend, caught covid, realized I have long covid, faught doctors and sought answers, found some of them, and lost and eventually refound my happiness. And through that all, Thor has been with me, cheering me on, comforting me, and making me feel like I've finally found a home in a faith where the gods don't have to be all knowing or infallible to be worth having in your life. Looking back, oh, how I've grown.
Did 2.5 repeats today. Placed 125 beads. 200 to go. Probably about five or six hours left. Knitted for like three today. Will probably regret that tomorrow
Decided to spend some time devoted to Thor today. Bad pictures cuz I'm sick and tired.
Back on my bullshit working on the devotional shawl for Thor. I worked on it for a little over an hour today. I've placed 2,305 beads so far. 495 to go. That's not so bad. I have ten repeats of the border chart left, and each repeat takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes cuz I have to slow down on even rows to place beads. But it was nice to just sit and contemplate my faith for a little bit today.
