I spent last weekend working on converting Solar Flare into a cape. To handle the 12 stitch marker shift I ended up adding stitches at the beginning until I had the 12 extra stitches so I could do the shift and then decreasing at the end until they were all gone. I also ended up recharting the entire shawl because the symbols in the original were non-standard and hard to follow. I did the increases and decreases every 4 rows, to make it more gradual and less noticeable. Now I just need my yarn so I can knit it. The Raveler who contact me has already cast on her shawl. It turns out that she learned how to do bead loom work from a video that my sister Virginia made. It's a small world.
I spent the week working on my latest test knit, so no pictures. I would have made more progress on it if I didn't keep making mistakes. I was tinking back to fix one mistake when I discovered I had made the same mistake a lot earlier. I ended up getting some skinny double point needles and putting them into the knitting just past the mistake and ripping back. It worked quite well and I didn't drop any stitches. It took me several evenings of knitting, and a fair bit of today to get back to where I was when I discovered my mistake. I'm almost done with that section, which will be a bit of a relief. I love the look, but it is a bit tedious.
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