student technique, 5.13

One of my students has been diligently working on this pattern all year. She hasn't wavered; she hasn't swayed. She has learned some serious skills from this particular pattern...and it's all coming to fruition.With just a month left, there's just the shell to be worked--and I swell with pride because this shell requires a lot of new skills, like working with more than one color at a time, carrying the yarn up the side of the work, and slipping stitches in the front and back to create those shell "window panes".Knitting teacher pride.