Cast On, Kill Off (A Knitting Mystery) by Maggie Sefton

Author:Maggie Sefton [Sefton, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Published: 2012-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

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Almost there, Kelly thought as she approached the end of the top row of her blue shawl. Five more stitches to bind off, four more, three . . . two, one. Done! At last! She was finally finished. Megan, Lisa, and Jen had finished their shawls weeks ago.

She reached for some scissors that sat in the tool tray in the middle of the long knitting table and snipped the dangling yarn tail. Now there were only a few inches to weave inside the other stitches, out of sight.

Kelly examined the long top edge of the triangular shawl. Not bad. Not bad at all, she decided. Her stitches had gotten better, more even. And no dropped stitches. At least, she didn’t notice any. Of course, she hadn’t really scrutinized the lovely open weave design. She’d probably find something if she looked hard enough.

In fact, she hadn’t had the time to eyeball the shawl at all because the edge she was working got longer and longer with every row, thus taking longer to finish. Since time was always in short supply for Kelly, she found herself simply pulling the shawl out of the bag to knit for a few minutes, then shoving the shawl inside the bag when she ran out of time.

Kelly held up the soft royal blue shawl by both ends. Glancing across the rows starting from the top, she looked closely at the open weave design, checking for any large or extra holes where there shouldn’t be holes. Down, down, everything looked okay. No extra holes yet. Down to the bottom tip of the triangle. So far, so good. Yay! No holes.

But Kelly did see something else. She hadn’t noticed it at first. The left side of the shawl looked different than the right side. It looked smaller somehow. But that couldn’t be. All the stitches were there. It must be her imagination.

She tried to spread the shawl out on the knitting table to get a better look, pushing aside the patterns and books and balls of yarn scattered about. Was one side of that triangle wider than the other? Kelly peered at the lacy blue shawl and frowned.

Okaaaay . . . there’s only one way to tell for sure, Kelly decided. Measure each side of the shawl. Searching through the assorted knitting paraphernalia and tools tray in the middle of the table, she found the tape measure. Now . . . exactly where to measure? Since the shawl was a triangle, she should be able to measure the distance from the top edge of the shawl triangle to the bottom of the other two sides. Even though the shawl was a soft fluffy knitted triangle, it was still a triangle. So it had to be geometric, right? Of course it did. Kelly remembered her geometry. Pythagorean theorems.

Now . . . how to do it? Maybe she could fold it in half. That way she could actually compare the two sides against each other. That would work.

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