celebration pie and fo's
This is today's celebration pie. Not really a piece of pie or an actual pie, but the closest thing I have in the house and it's darn good! It's the other half of the turnover from Avila Barn this weekend and it's delicious. I'm celebrating the longest 11 days of knitting ever and the completion of my first "official" lace project and it was successful. Yesterday I put in a good 3 hours of knitting, not all at once, but an hour or so in the morning and a couple more in the evening after dinner, because I was so close to finishing I just had to get 'er done.
The story of lace.
I had taken my mom to the yarny store in SLO thinking she would love all the options and "rare" (only because they sell a completely different stock than our local store) yarn finds, fiber, pins and just plan cool stuff. She had spied the numerous shalley's and lacy things they had hanging in the store and I told her all off the cuff like, "If you find something you like, I'll make it for you as long as it isn't a blanket and you buy the supplies." Knowing when I said this, I was kind of cringing inside but also excited. Cringing because I know that I would never knit whatever she wanted on my own, but I also would never knit something she would pick on my own. Our style and creative choices are completely opposite. I like to think of it as, choose what I like and then reverse it and she would LOVE it. That is this project.
She decided to pick the lace shawl on the cover of the Interweave Knits June issue and I said sure, let me take a look and see what we need. It didn't look too hard, I could learn that. I've already learned a ton already and I like a challenge. She decided that she would wait until I knitted up a sample before she bought yarn and supplies and I knew there was no hurry and it would be a while before I had everything I needed. Finally, she bought some kid seta mohair and some iridescent beads (I actually like the choice, because they are subtle). She ordered some blocking boards and lace wires to get it to look right and I was off.
There were some challenges with the actual knitting part, but I kept close count and fixed mistakes and what not as they came. I made a short list of issues I have with the yarn and project below. But, overall, it was very successful and I liked beading the lace and border.
1. Lace is not forgiving when you make a mistake. You must rip it out.
2. Simple yarn overs wreak havoc on my stitch count. I can't tell whether it's meant to be there or if I accidentally picked something up that shouldn't be there.
3. Ooh mohair your are SOOO hairy! Yarnies say that wool sticky, the little hairs that hold the wool to one another help the knitting to stay in one place. Mohair is like wool to the tenth power. The hairs are like Velcro! It's very difficult to rip anything out.
4. The halo obscures the pattern somewhat, but the result it lovely.
5. Lace is nice, but not my thing. I will probably never make another intricate lace pattern again.
6. Loved the construction of the shawl. The method to working the pattern first and then shape the short rows is brilliant. Really like the idea of doing the hard part first and then easy part.
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| It's a cherry turnover and Caribou coffee. |
The story of lace.
I had taken my mom to the yarny store in SLO thinking she would love all the options and "rare" (only because they sell a completely different stock than our local store) yarn finds, fiber, pins and just plan cool stuff. She had spied the numerous shalley's and lacy things they had hanging in the store and I told her all off the cuff like, "If you find something you like, I'll make it for you as long as it isn't a blanket and you buy the supplies." Knowing when I said this, I was kind of cringing inside but also excited. Cringing because I know that I would never knit whatever she wanted on my own, but I also would never knit something she would pick on my own. Our style and creative choices are completely opposite. I like to think of it as, choose what I like and then reverse it and she would LOVE it. That is this project.
She decided to pick the lace shawl on the cover of the Interweave Knits June issue and I said sure, let me take a look and see what we need. It didn't look too hard, I could learn that. I've already learned a ton already and I like a challenge. She decided that she would wait until I knitted up a sample before she bought yarn and supplies and I knew there was no hurry and it would be a while before I had everything I needed. Finally, she bought some kid seta mohair and some iridescent beads (I actually like the choice, because they are subtle). She ordered some blocking boards and lace wires to get it to look right and I was off.
There were some challenges with the actual knitting part, but I kept close count and fixed mistakes and what not as they came. I made a short list of issues I have with the yarn and project below. But, overall, it was very successful and I liked beading the lace and border.
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| It's not blocked yet. I will follow up with final photos a little later. |
2. Simple yarn overs wreak havoc on my stitch count. I can't tell whether it's meant to be there or if I accidentally picked something up that shouldn't be there.
3. Ooh mohair your are SOOO hairy! Yarnies say that wool sticky, the little hairs that hold the wool to one another help the knitting to stay in one place. Mohair is like wool to the tenth power. The hairs are like Velcro! It's very difficult to rip anything out.
4. The halo obscures the pattern somewhat, but the result it lovely.
5. Lace is nice, but not my thing. I will probably never make another intricate lace pattern again.
6. Loved the construction of the shawl. The method to working the pattern first and then shape the short rows is brilliant. Really like the idea of doing the hard part first and then easy part.
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