Lace! Lace! Lace!
Yes, yes, I finished the Neapolitan grocery bag and have used one of the grocery bags to go shopping and all and WHO CARES?! LACE!
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Yarn used: Bare Merino Laceweight from KnitPicks. Needles: 4mm.
"You're-Coming-Home-With-Me" Sheep is a meticulous sheep, as you can see. She's carefully inspecting my shawl for any mistakes. So far she's caught all of them, and I haven't had to do any unfortunate ripping back. :)
How did she get such a long name? It was Easter, and I was at a Hallmark store. There was a display of stuffed animals, seasonally appropriate, stacked on top of a shelf at my-eyes-height. I took one look at YCHWM Sheep, grabbed her by the face, said "Yep! You're coming home with me," and proceeded to snuggle her until I was ready to check out. She is cute, adorable, snuggly, and gets far too little attention, because she lives (with another sheep, usually) in a sheep basket (yes, a basket that is also a sheep (of which we have three (Easter is like that))) on the subwoofer. Poor darling.
So she'll be getting more attention over the next few weeks as I work on this.
Now, I know I can finish a lace shawl in a short amount of time. I did the Sheep Shawl in 14 days, and even if it's not bigger (and I kind of think it was), it sure felt bigger. Plus I had several days of faffing about and not working on it much.
For this one, I have 18 days to work (I'm now on day 3), and I'm ahead of schedule. I'm planning to wear this when I go to a friend's wedding -- assuming it's cool enough, of course. It'll be late May in Montana, so it's hard to say. (Hence why I want the shawl -- if it's cold, I don't want to have to drag out my coat.)
I found this on Ravelry when one of my friends linked to it. (Thank you!) It's lovely -- so geometric! But the picture in the book wasn't very flattering, so I would never have noticed it if I hadn't seen the sample pic on Ravelry. As you can see, the geometric pattern is already clear in it, but it's going to look SO DAMN GOOD once it's blocked. All other projects have been pushed aside, and who cares if I'm currently blowing my finished-to-started ratio? (It's down to 1.3, goal for the year is 1.5.) There's tons of year left!!
wyomingnot:
Dang, that's some serious progress. I itch to start on it myself, but I'm standing firm on not starting until I've finished something. And heck, I just finished a wrap, so. Yeah.
I haven't actually seen the pattern, so I'm on the clueless side. How hard is this? Looks like it shouldn't be bad. Difficult enough to be interesting. Y'know?
6 May 2008, 9:42 pmAnjela:
Not tough at all! The hardest part is following the chart, honestly, which is something like 81 stitches and doesn't have any markers to help you out. I've taken to putting a piece of paper above the row I'm working on as a visual guide and muttering out loud with every row. It gets easier when you've been going for a while, though, 'cause you can sort of line up your current row against the last one. :)
7 May 2008, 6:23 amwyomingnot:
I just picked up the book from the library. And wow, *many* of the pics here are crap for showing the pieces.
7 May 2008, 3:43 pmI usually transcribe charts to graph paper... but I'm thinking that may not work here... way way too big. Eep.
Well. I'll deal with it when the time comes, yeah?