So I finished the back of Everyday. I didn’t bother to take a picture. It’s an expanse of stockinette, use your imagination 😉
But I took a closeup of the stitches to show you the gorgeous colour.

I love this colour!
I’ve been working on Luann, too. One of the other testknitters is finished, she posted over at the KR. I don’t want to be the last and hold Wendy up!
Harry Potter was great, we went to the 9.20pm session, thinking that there’d be no little kids there and we’d be able to watch it without interruption. Wrong. There was a little kid on the other side of Em who didn’t shut up the whole movie – and at least 5 mobile phones rang through the movie too. I hate that. Turn the bloody phone off! Or at least put it on silent if you’re waiting for an urgent call, for crying out loud!
Shrek 2 opens next week. I can’t wait to see that one. School holidays start July 3, but I can’t take Em then, because David will get upset if we go without him 😉

I did about 2 or 3 inches of Wendy’s tank in the pink yarn today, but I wasn’t really happy with the stitch and pattern definition. So I swatched with the purple cotton, and I like that way better.
Frog, baby, frog!
Don’t get me wrong, I really like to knit with the pink, it’s lovely. The wool and the lycra give the cotton a softness and stretch that makes it nice to work with. It is a bit splitty, though.
I swatched on 3.75mm needles with the purple cotton, and got gauge straight out, so this is the yarn to use. I’ve only cast on, and I won’t get any more done tonight, because we are about to run out the door to go see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
🙂

There is a reason for everything. I didn’t get the yarn for Wendy’s tank, because I was busy with Charlotte. She stalled last night, and this morning I recieved this –

The pink isn’t co-operating with my camera. It’s a much deeper pink, called Rose. That’s the yarn I hope to use for Luann. It’s 69.6% cotton, 30% wool, and 0.4% lycra. It has an unusual texture, the lycra seems to cause it to gather up a little, like this

It stretches out straight when I pull it, and I knitted a swatch, got gauge(!) and the swatch looks okay, not textured, so I’ll give it a go. This pic is closer to the shade, but still not exactly right.

The purple is plain 100% cotton. If the pink is too textured and doesn’t do justice to the pattern, I’ll use the purple. I cast on in the pink, but for some unknown reason, I cast on a totally wrong number of stitches. Not off by 1 or 2, but by 22. I have no idea how that happened, but I’m about to start again 🙂

So here’s the progress on Charlotte.
She’s on row 126.

Doesn’t she look gorgeous?
However, Charlotte, we have have a problem.

This is all that remains of colour 4. At this stage, I have 6 rows still to be done in colour 4. It just won’t make it. 🙁
So I lost countless hours of sleep last night. I tossed and turned, seeking a solution. Obviously my row gauge is off. I only checked stitch gauge (which is a little under). I could *gulp* frog her again and use smaller needles. This solution is probably best, but I’m just not capable of it.
I could just do the remainder in colour 5, it’ll probably be fine. Yes, but *I’d* know. And colour 4 is my favourite.
Or I could ring Threadbear and seek out an extra skein of colour 4.
Guess what I did?
I rung across the world 🙂 I was very very very impressed that as soon as I said “Hi! I’d like to order a skein of Koigu” Rob said “Donna?”
Honest, I’ve only rung once before. I told my DH this, and I’m sure he thinks I’m calling in orders twice a week 😉 How lucky for me that Rob only had a few lonely skeins left, and one of them was not only the right colour, but the right dyelot!! Woo Hoooooo! Obviously, I was meant to have this skein, and finish Charlotte off properly 🙂
I had enough for 2 more rows, so I’ve done up to Row 132 now, but she has to rest now until I get that extra skein. While I was on the phone, I ordered a Katia Kids book too. Why waste the opportunity?
But I was very impressed 🙂
Still no yarn for Wendy’s tank. These people could learn a thing or two from Threadbear 😉
And today I leave you with an example of how a naughty bunny upsets her Mum.

Annie blogged on June 6 about how her family are indifferent about her knitting, and how she loves knitbloggers for understanding her excitement over knitting.
My DH was looking over my blog last night. He asked which project he got me for my birthday. My birthday was all of 8 days ago, and he already can’t remember which yarn he got me. How’s that for indifferent? He also likes to make smartypants remarks about my eBay obsession. 😉
Has everyone been over to Mary Beth‘s blog and checked out her finished Charlotte? It’s beautiful. Stunning. I can’t wait to finish mine!
No more news. My yarn for the tank still hasn’t arrived. I’ve ordered yarn from the USA that arrived quicker than this!