A Light Fiber Diet
Not much of a knitting day today.
I finally decided to begin on my "Wings of the Cat" shawl design. I've settled on a border pattern from a web site that SheriO on the Summer of Lace group told me about: Knitting-and.com. This site had a huge number of lace borders, insertions, and patterns, many of them from vintage sources, and all free for personal use.
I found one that I liked a lot for my shawl. It's called "Leaf and Acorn Lace", and I think it will be just the thing to invoke a sense of New Hampshire's forests.
Since I chose to start knitting, I had to consider my ball of lace yarn. When I spent so much time untangling the skein, well - it was such a mess that I didn't take the extra trouble to make a center-pull ball at that time. So I began today's fiber work with re-winding all 1700 yards or so of yarn.
Halfway to a Center-Pull Ball
Having spent most of my knitting energy on yarn winding, I still managed to cast on my first stitches, and purl my foundation row.
And So It Begins
Not very auspicious looking, I know, but it has been started. I've been talking for over two weeks about it now, and it's about time. BTW, trust me - the yarn is ecru, the way the top picture shows. It was taken much earlier in the day, and I think the natural light in the room was better.
That white thing you see in the bottom right corner of the last picture is the notepad on which I'll be diligently scratching down everything I do, so that I can offer this patten for you to re-create if you desire. I only hope that, with all this effort, it turns out to be worth it!
I finally decided to begin on my "Wings of the Cat" shawl design. I've settled on a border pattern from a web site that SheriO on the Summer of Lace group told me about: Knitting-and.com. This site had a huge number of lace borders, insertions, and patterns, many of them from vintage sources, and all free for personal use.
I found one that I liked a lot for my shawl. It's called "Leaf and Acorn Lace", and I think it will be just the thing to invoke a sense of New Hampshire's forests.
Since I chose to start knitting, I had to consider my ball of lace yarn. When I spent so much time untangling the skein, well - it was such a mess that I didn't take the extra trouble to make a center-pull ball at that time. So I began today's fiber work with re-winding all 1700 yards or so of yarn.
Halfway to a Center-Pull Ball
Having spent most of my knitting energy on yarn winding, I still managed to cast on my first stitches, and purl my foundation row.
And So It Begins
Not very auspicious looking, I know, but it has been started. I've been talking for over two weeks about it now, and it's about time. BTW, trust me - the yarn is ecru, the way the top picture shows. It was taken much earlier in the day, and I think the natural light in the room was better.
That white thing you see in the bottom right corner of the last picture is the notepad on which I'll be diligently scratching down everything I do, so that I can offer this patten for you to re-create if you desire. I only hope that, with all this effort, it turns out to be worth it!
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