Nupps

This weekend whipped by and I can hardly believe that we're already into the middle of the week. We celebrated a 19th birthday in the house, topped off for the Geek by notification of a scholarship offer from a private University in our state. She has 4 weeks to make a decision, which is looking pretty simple right now as she hasn't heard from anywhere else yet.

This college business is a real stress inducer (and this is year 2! You'd think we'd be used to it by now.)

To add to it all, we seem to have hit monsoon season. The never-ending, incessant rainfall and resulting flooding is enough to make even the sanest person give up and go back to knitting winter woollies.

I haven't.

I've continued with my Swallowtail lace shawl and have been nupping like a pro............Well, almost. 

Some of my nupps look a little untidy and a couple are in the wrong place, but hey, despite my fabulous lifeline, I am NOT ripping back!

Let's just call it a learning curve.

Bud lace pattern flowing into Lily Of The Valley border. 

I stopped by my knit group last week and got a great tip on knitting nupps from my friend, Barb. I'd managed one row but had had terrible trouble getting my needle into 5 stitches all at once as I purled back on the next. 

I knew there had to be an easier way!

The secret, it would seem, is to use a crochet hook. You complete your nupps with the crochet hook on the first row and then all you have to do on the other side, is purl the stitch just like all the others.

Easy! (Sort of......)

Here's a video that explains it all.

Thanks to this, I'm now nupping with the best of them.