whackadoodle coconut

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. 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 ...

I just finished my sample and took it to my mom's house to have her take a look and share a few things regarding choosing yarn and the importance of blocking. Pattern: Summer Blooms by Susanna IC, printed in this months Interweave Knits Yarn: leftover from cardi and some socks (not the same kind of yarn, or technically the same color either, it was the same weight though)

so I'm still working on my "test" summer blooms.  I am hoping to have enough yarn just sitting around to finish the short rows.  I have used up the last of the yarn from my sweater and a half ball from a pair of socks I made a few months back and I might have to break into another ball to finish.  it's okay since the yarn is kind of old and the blocking should soften it up a bit.  3 more rows until the 68 short rows!  Yay! about 3 rows short of the short rows tester of the 32 row repeat didn't look right, so I cast on all 417 st for another test

This past week I had the opportunity to visit a not so local, but close by some means yarn store about 30 minutes from where I live.  It's closer than Santa Barbara.  My mom and I drove up and she picked out a lacy shawlette for me to make and purchased the pattern.  I have spent the week off and on practicing and putting together what I need to make it.  I even joined the ravelry group for he KAL. It took about an hour and half to cast on the 417 stitches needed to start and I will work 34 rows of the pattern before the short row shaping and be done.  If the practice works out, I will get the yarn to do the real thing.  It's easy enough, although I have run into a couple of snags that I need help with.  This will be my first official lace knit and beaded project.