As is typical for me, once I get to a certain point in a project I focus on it until it is finished. So last week I focused on finishing up Lightning Thief, working the rest of Chart B, and the bind off. The bind off was a bit of a slog. Not hard, per se, once I saw the pattern and got into the rhythm, but it still required focus, and time.
Blocking also took time (an hour), as every one of those picots had to be pinned out. To do it I put three fingers of each hand into the loops (like a cat scratching) and pulled to stretch out the knitting, then I switched my left hand to the first three loops while I pinned with my right hand, being careful to pin into the picot. Once they were pinned I repeated for the second three loops. Once all the picots were pinned out I could then do the fine adjustments to get them all laying neatly, make sure my pin was solidly in the picot, and make sure things lined up neatly.
I did make one modification to the pattern, adding a bead on row 40 over the CDD so that the line of beads terminated neatly.
Pattern: Lightning Thief by Lily Go
Yarn: Araucanian Yarns Huasca Multy Botany Lace
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