The Magic Number

Guess what?  I'm officially done knitting the body of Nuvem!  Man, oh man, does it ever feel good to be so close to the finishing line!!  I thought this day would never come.  But here I am, ready to start the ruffle edging.  I'm seven rows away from finishing this bad boy of a shawl.

Seems easy peasy enough, right?  That's what I thought...until I remembered that I now need to increase a stitches like there's no tomorrow.  I know that I have well over a thousand stitches (I stopped counting after nine hundred and saw that I still had about three quarters of a needle's worth of stitches to go), meaning that I have to increase at least a thousand stitches too.  

I have a feeling these last seven rows are going to take me all weekend to knit up.  I don't even want to think about how long the bind off will take.  Tonight I'll definitely be hunkering down with Nuvem.  

And maybe a bottle of beer.

Or two.