I wanted to show you what I think is the magic called blocking. This is the Print o the Wave stole I knit last year, off the needles, pre-blocking. I used Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud, Midnight I think, and US 4 needles. A big lump of bumpy knitting.
This is the stole blocking on my bed.
And here it is being modeled by my mom:
Despite giant blobs in the body where I dropped stitches and tried to pick them back up, I was really happy with the way it looked after blocking. But I did learn a lesson: Never knit lace in black or dark yarn unless you want to pull all of your hair out. It is for more patient people than I to knit lace in black because I will certainly never do that again.
4 comments:
wow two post this close together.
seriously that is gorgeous.
~Jessica
While I can appreciate the concept of don't knit in black (especially lace) - it came too late for me, as I have a beautiful skein of some sort of dark (midnight-ish) hazey kind of cob webby yarn that I have a lace pattern all picked out for...me-thinks I could be in trouble.
Lovin' the two posts. Now the pressure is on.... :)
I think that pattern may be my first foray into lace. . . .my PRGE partner included it in my swap box, along with Eunny's whole Intro to Lace tutorial.
And, I totally agree with you on the voice. .it is Brian's voice coming out of a man, not Stewie's. . . it's JAKE that thinks it sounds like Stewie and we had the same argument on Sunday night. . .
That is gorgeous!!! Way to go! I just blocked the green monster that had me tied up for the last month, and I'm tellin' ya, that blocking is like crack!
As to the Christmas shopping and knitting - I can't give a definitive answer yet, as I've done very little Christmas shopping, but I have been known to knit in traffic. Yes, I was the driver, no the car wasn't moving. I figure if it works for tunnel traffic (read: spontaneous parking lots) it could work for checkout lines - why not?
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