04/11/2017

Started reviewing materials, gathering supplies, researching, and knitting swatches.

04/20/2017

Really having trouble and struggling with selvedge edges. Going to try another yarn.

04/24/2017

Preliminary Swatch and Swatch 1 - 13 done.
Blocking Report completed, except for describing the blocking of my own swatches.

Blocked Preliminary Swatch and
Blocked Swatch 1, 2, 3, 11, and 14.
See that I need to re-knit Swatch 1, 2, 11.

05/11/2017

Re-knitting the Increase and Decrease Swatches. Tension was a little tight. Also, for a couple of swatches, I knit the decrease/increase every other row, instead of every other RS-row.

05/14/2017

Knit colorway with red as the contrasting color and seems way too dark. Picked up a lovely lavender shade of Cascade 220.
Third time’s the charm, seems to be the theme for these swatches.

06/03/2017

Finally, blocking my mitten. All the knitting is done! My blocking report is finished.

06/08/2017

Asked friends to test my written knitting pattern and instructions. With positive feedback.

06/16/2017

The writing is done, 60 pages, 18,762 words.

06/25/2017

Photographed everything.

07/05/2017

Decided to re-knit a few swatches after seeing the photos. Wanted to make sure I submitted my best work for each and to try out Elizabeth Zimmerman’s purling technique. Glad I took the trouble and am satisfied with the results.

Sending away for submission instructions.

07/05/2017

Mailed.

07/28/2017

Received Review Letter with some corrections to make.

09/29/2017

Sent off corrections and reworked swatches. I needed to learn to measure more precisely.