Knitting and More Knitting. Cat and Fur

I had a nice laid-back day today, and with a good chunk of knitting time got the shawl finished. Ta-da!

Pre-blocking, in case that wasn't clear. Blocking should spread it out and open the pattern up a bit. But for this stage, I'm quite pleased with it.

Now that the shawl knitting is done, I can go back to the Tardis that got put aside for it. Though I also want to start another Wingspan, so we'll see how long I can hold off on that. I may have wound one of the skeins for it when I was winding the second skein for the heart shawl, maybe.

In other knitting, I was at a cook-out yesterday, and got through the heel flap on the current sock. But then I noticed that I'd messed up a row or two there, near the top. It wasn't glaringly obvious to look at, though I could see it when I looked.

I might have left it that way, since my general feeling with socks is eh, it's just going on my foot, who cares as long as it fits. But I could feel the difference, and I was afraid that it would be uncomfortable to wear. And that is not acceptable to the owner of these delicate feet.

So today I frogged back a few rows, learning in the process that this yarn is pretty split-prone. Not a quality I admire in yarn! I love the colors, but picking the stitches back up was an extra PITA. I probably won't get it again. Live and learn. From the comments on Ravelry, others find it splitty too, but several mentioned that finished socks wore very well, so I have hope for my FO here. I haven't noticed any yarn color bleeding onto my hands, as some did, but perhaps that's more with really dark colors.

Once the re-do was complete, I turned the heel (twice, since I messed up the first time, good grief). This remains my favorite part of socks: turning a corner in yarn:

Magic.

Tonight Carlos had a session with the serious fur brush. He purred the whole time, and I removed about .57 of his total fur.

That's an estimate. He looks exactly the same as he did before, but dude, that was a lot of fur coming out.

I need to catch the princess and work on her, too; she gets mats in the hindquarters, with all that fluff. God help me.