Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Do I hear croaking?

Yeah, I do. I am THIS CLOSE (holds hands about an inch apart) to finishing the She's Partial to the Periwinkle Blue Stole, aka the Voyager Lace Stole. In fact, I only have a few more stitches to cast off on the bottom edge picot bind-off. See, you do a provisional cast-on, leaving a ball of about 10 yards of yarn to knit the edging, you knit the stole, you do the picot bind-off, and then you go back to the bottom, unravel the PCO, and use that ball to do the picot bind-off on that edge. Unfortunately, I seem to have needed more yarn than I balled up. Oh balls. I'm going to undo the bind-off I've done so far, clip that ball of yarn off, and attach a new strand, since I have PLENTY of yarn left. Then I'll re-do it, and THEN I will have to figure out how to block that big mother. I really need my friend to give me the blocking board materials she got for me. GAH. I've never blocked lace before. This should be...interesting. It really needs it, too, in order to be as wide as it's supposed to be. But...it's COTTON. How the hell do you successfully block cotton? ARGH. I maybe should have made this out of wool, but I wanted it to be more summery. And the original pattern called for cotton! Now they have one with alpaca, but before, in Vogue Knitting, it was cotton.

And then I can start something new. A Dalek? Kilt hose for the boy? Intolerable Cruelty? More than one of those? We'll see.

And I have to investigate these Addi Click needles!