Friday Fluff

 

I was having a very nice morning over in the Fluff Corner. The sun was shining and I finished one of the four fiber nests from the Maine Lobster braid. 

Then I finally made it to round 48 of the handspun Pi Shawl and did the increases. I'm over 500 stitches on each round now. Yikes. 

Then disaster struck. I finished the second Thermal Mitt but as you can see, I started the top ribbing too soon. I needed one more pattern repeat. Today I'll be ripping that out and re-doing it. I'm also not sure why the bottom of the first mitt is flaring out like that and the other isn't. That's worrisome. 

Then real disaster struck. We thought we were heading down to the finish line with the shower drywall when.....

....we ended up with some serious gappage. The shower panels are bowed down where they meet so the drywall, which has to sit neatly 1/8 of an inch above the top of the flanges, won't. There's also a hole where they meet which would be a perfect place for water to go. We've got a call into the installer to see what's up with that but being a holiday weekend, he never called back. 

That's our second bottle btw and it's probably going to take at least a couple more before this particular nightmare of a project is done. Even when you pay other people to do the hard stuff it never goes smoothly. It's always something.