Missed deadline but done

I gave myself until the end of the month to finish my touring wrap. I've been working on this wrap on and off since September. I was determined to finish by the end of June. On the 30th, I realized I had just one night left to finish. Our friend Chris V had other plans. We were invited over for dinner. I started packing up the kids around 8:00 but then Chris decided to open another bottle of wine and insisted that we all try a glass. An hour and half later we were finally kick to the curb. When I got home I could hardly type an email message and decided that drinking and knitting were not a good mix.

On Wednesday while we drove to the lake, I finished up knitting the main portion. It's good thing I waited. It was a 7 hour drive and it took most of the 7 hours to finish it. That was an unending ball of yarn. I would finish a repeat and look at the ball and think, I can get one more out of it. I ended up adding 4 (or 5, I lost count) repeats before all was done.

Finally last night. We got back from the lake around 4:30. I told DH that I wanted 15 minutes or so to finish up my wrap. I had to graft the border onto the main portion. What was I thinking that I could kitchener stitch 97 stitches in 15 minutes???

I sat in front of the computer with the knittinghelp video going while I repeated my mantra, knit, slip, purl, purl, slip, knit. I did that for over an hour! But it is done! Here is the proof.



My new blocking wires are waiting at home. I can't wait to try them out.