It’s another chilly, wet, overcast day here in the mountains.  Maybe it will clear up enough for me to get some decent pictures of my Peony Twist Cardi and the Herringbone Neck Warmer but for now, it’s not happening.

I stopped by the only store that carries buttons in my neck of the woods and found some buttons for the Peony Twist Cardi that are OK.  Just OK.  Not loving them but they are the right color.  I might try to make some out of polymer clay today.

I found two buttons in my stash for the neck warmer.  I just need to sew them on.  Here’s a not-so-great picture of it before they are sewed on.

Herringbone Neck Warmer

I was going to take a break in knitting for a while to declutter my house and get ready for the installation of crown molding in the living and dining rooms as well as finishing a part of my basement for a craft room.  I’ll post before and after pictures, if I’m not too embarrassed of the mess I have now.

But that is a few months down the road.  Decluttering starts now.

Anyway, I have two fingerless mitt patterns I want to make.  Fetching and Treads.  I have stash yarn to make one pair.  Hmmm.

I have been working sporatically on the Herringbone Neck Warmer for too long.  Of course I was knitting the peony Twist Cardi at the same time (which needs the ends woven in and buttons.)

Anyway Mr. Aitch performed in a concert last night and I went to listen.  He had to be there early so I took my neck warmer with me to knit before the concert started.

Herringbone Neck Warmer progress

Several people have commented about how difficult this stitch pattern is to fix if you miss a stitch or worse, drop a stitch.

Well, it happened that I dropped a stitch.  I tried to fix it but I could not figure out how.  So I had to unknit it stitch by stitch back to the missing stitch.

And I did it.  Fortunately it was only one row.  Just in time for the concert to start.