I do. I do. I do believe in lace.
Posted by knittymom at 6/13/2008 12:38 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Admittedly I had more than a little doubt that this squoonched (that a word??? it should be) up mess of knitting....
was going to amount to anything. Much less something that I would look at and think, "I would like to wear this." But I guess all the other knitters very much into lace knitting were right. Once you do this....
which is called blocking. (Blocking amounts to a bit of fibertorture conditioning -- first you submerge the fabric in a bath of warm water then after it's thoroughly soaked, you take it out and unceremoniously roll it in a towel to soak up the excess water. The piece then gets stretched and each of its points pinned so that the lace pattern opens and is visible. It stays like that until it dries. And if you have pinned it to your bed, you hope that no one runs into the room and does a high flying dramatic flop onto the bed. Major potential for ouch. Everyone in the house was duly warned. 
So, to my great pleasure, my scarf now looks like this .....
and, yes, I am so pleased. Oh, you would like to see it up close .....
Isn't it lovely? Here are the details:
Pattern: Argosy from knitty
Needles: US 4
Yarn: Jojoland Superwash Merino
The yarn was OK as a lace yarn but it is marketed as a sock yarn. I'm not sure I would ever use it for socks -- a bit too thin and too splitty. Colors are really nice though.
And now for something completely different...*
I like to play with other media sometimes so here are some polymer clay "things" I made this week:
The three middle "things" are buttons and I know how to use those...um, obviously. The other "things" I made but really have no idea what to do with them. (For scale: The gold tiles are 1 inch square) They're cool and I like them but what the heck to do I do with them. Any suggestions? (Hey, you there in the back row. Yeah, the one with the smirk on your face. Settle down.)
* 2 points for a Monty Python reference
was going to amount to anything. Much less something that I would look at and think, "I would like to wear this." But I guess all the other knitters very much into lace knitting were right. Once you do this....
which is called blocking. (Blocking amounts to a bit of fiber
So, to my great pleasure, my scarf now looks like this .....
and, yes, I am so pleased. Oh, you would like to see it up close .....
Isn't it lovely? Here are the details:
Pattern: Argosy from knitty
Needles: US 4
Yarn: Jojoland Superwash Merino
The yarn was OK as a lace yarn but it is marketed as a sock yarn. I'm not sure I would ever use it for socks -- a bit too thin and too splitty. Colors are really nice though.
And now for something completely different...*
I like to play with other media sometimes so here are some polymer clay "things" I made this week:
The three middle "things" are buttons and I know how to use those...um, obviously. The other "things" I made but really have no idea what to do with them. (For scale: The gold tiles are 1 inch square) They're cool and I like them but what the heck to do I do with them. Any suggestions? (Hey, you there in the back row. Yeah, the one with the smirk on your face. Settle down.)
* 2 points for a Monty Python reference
I don't know about you, but I'm always finding myself without things to chuck at the heads of people I don't like. Perhaps this is because I don't like most people, or perhaps it's because I have no little, ornate clay discs/ tiles.
+2 Points for every person you bean ironically with a really classy, quasi-victorian, fleur-de-lis embossed, handmade clay disc.
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Interesting concept... Luckily I like most people but for those chosen few.....
Will my points be alotted based on where on the head I bean them..
+1 glancing blow
+1 hard enough to elicit a comment but not a swear word
+2 right in the pith helmet
+3 hard enough to elicit a swear word but not inflict any real damage
+3 between the eyes
-1 in the ear...no one should be hit in the ear
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