(before switching to ebbtide for pattern…)
I decided to start this project After the suggestion that it is meditative and reading the test knitters’ notes of this project being part of their grieving process. So here I go.

11/25. Today, in Memphis visiting my Daddy who is on Hospice with pancreatic cancer, I started spinning some fiber for this project on my Little Gem. I chose the fiber because I asked myself what colors would remind me of Daddy, and it was an easy question - the colors of the Everglades. The Ashford fiber in Woodland got awful close, but then I held an ounce of aqua blue merino alongside the 4 ounces of woodland and it turned out the Glades.

12/25 finished plying, skeined up. 250 wraps around the winder (rounded down to make up for bloom) on the second spot in - 18.5x4= 74inchesx250 =18,500inches = 513 yards total of yarn! Good yardage! I hope to eek a medium out of it.

2/22 actually cast on today. Chart a complete. Yarn feels really nice!

3/15 not in love. And I’ve screwed up somewhere in the fifth repeat of B. this may become an ebbtide shawl.*

4/24 planning to rip out the Melpomene at CampKIP.

6/18 Ok. I couldn’t make myself work on this, mainly because the eyelet cable in the spine was making it too much to think about, at least more than I wanted to think while working on this. SO I altered the pattern to not have a lacey spine, I had one middle stitch and worked M1L and M1R around the spine instead of yo.

I ran out of yarn and had to spin up enought for the last three rows and bind-off. Luckily I had more fiber!