Harumph!

We had some people visiting last week, and I missed Stitch-n-bitch. Thus, the Delilah sweater is exactly where I left it -- tantalizingly close to the underbust. Not close enough to start the ribbing, but still too close to continue in mindless stockinette. I need to figure out the decrease pattern for the underbust, and that takes more attention than knitting on the bus will allow. Also, I've gotten to the second ball, and the accumulated bulk of the project means I will soon have to find another project for lab meeting, as I try to be discreet. Perhaps I'll start some (more) socks, or a nice spring-weight fingerless-gloves-cum-buspass-holder.

I did, however, cast off on the Moebius scarflette. Originally planned to be a shawl, then revised to a head-covering cowl, it ended up as a mini-scarf. It's perhaps 6" wide and 30" round, a most annoying size. Were it 20" round, it would be a great head-covering. Were it 40" round, it would be a great shawl. At 30", it is neither and thus not useful. Ah well. Lessons learned:

• When doing feather-and-fan in the round, note the beginning of a row midway through a decrease section, not at one end of the decrease. Else, the pattern will move over one stitch each row.
  
• The moebuis pattern -- which is inherently nifty-keen -- obscures how wide the FO will be. Swatching is imperative.
  
• Suri Dream is wonderfully soft, better than mohair. It also does not rip out, no matter how much you want it to.
  
• A bobbled bind-off looks surprisingly like crochet. (BO 2 knitwise, kfbf in next st, sl those 3 to the left needle, BO 3 knitwise)