The Jo Sharp cardi is finito!
Well, the knitting is. I have yet to block or seam it.
Last night, I was picking up the stitches for the front band, and it occurred to me that some people may be having the same difficulty I used to have with the line “Pick up x number of stitches evenly around the neckline”
It used to drive me batty. It would say to pick up 50 stitches evenly, and I’d pick up 30 really close together and 20 spaced much further apart, and I’d have to rip it out and start over. Again and again.
Then a really simple idea hit me, and it’s been much simpler ever since.

Pins. Duh.
Maybe I’m just a dope who did everything the hard way, and every one else has already thought of this.
The Jo Sharp cardi required that I pick up 46 stitches along the V-neck sharping. I measured the part where I had to pick up the stitches, then I marked it in 4 even spaces. Then I picked up 11 between the first two pins, 12 between the next two, 11 in the third section and 12 at the end.
Personally, I find this much easier than trying to work out how to pick up 46 evenly.
What’s next? Hmmm… here is a list of the things I really want to knit as soon as I can.
My Kitri sock kit.
The Fern Garden Stole.
The Hanging Garden Stole.
Heere be Dragone Shawl.
My Sea Silk.
Finish the new socks I was designing.
A V neck raglan sweater in Cleckheaton Country Silk.
That’s it. Well, that’s what I would cast on this very minute if I had 500 hours in a day.
For now, I’ve started a stashbusting project. More info next time!
Twinkie is in disgrace. Remember the new couch we got back in May?

While you can’t see the actual damage very well, the wooden frame is visible on the corner. I almost considered rabbit pie for dinner.
Almost.