It’s been a bit. I know. I am getting very excited about my upcoming trip to Fair Isle in a couple of months. I purchased my plane/ferry tickets a couple of weeks ago. That makes it official and all I can think about since is Fair Isle. I was grateful to have had the opportunity to visit that beautiful place for a day back in 2007. We didn’t get to go the first time we went to Shetland, so we made sure to go the second time and the weather graciously worked in our favor. I don’t think I’ll fully believe it until I’ve been there a few days.
Because all I can think about is Fair Isle, I cast on The Fisherman’s Kep Pattern by Anne Sinclair (the group can be found on Facebook), which is sold to support The George Waterston Memorial Center and Museum on Fair Isle. I dug out a bunch of Jamieson and Smith’s wool from my stash from previous visits to Shetland. I did a black/white chart for the patterning and am winging it as I go. It’s coming out nicely, but there was a section I wasn’t crazy about. That pale blue band with all the sand colored patterning looked like a beacon in a dark night to me. It was driving me nuts.
Didn’t like the so much pale sand in the pale blue band 
So I replaced the sand colored stitches in the center row with rose.
I thought I would just duplicate stitch over the center row of the sand color with a rose color I’d used in the brim. It was working, but I didn’t like the way the rose was lifted up off the pattern with the sand yarn under it so I snipped it out and followed the tail of it around to replace it in that row. I’ve made a video to show what I did:
I haven’t been at the looms much since the last post, but I have been weaving here and there on the double width blanket. This week I plan to take the focus off of Fair Isle and back on to my weaving. I should get a lot done if I can just stay off the Shetland webcams! You can see the blanket in the background of the video at least… 🙂