The Lace of My Dreams
Last night I had a dream. This dream involved many things, but the part I remember the most vividly is picking up a half-finished lace wrap that I was working on and showing it to my mother. Somehow the lace looked perfectly blocked already, despite the project being unfinished. She ooh’d and aah’d over it as I showed her the pattern repeats and the little subtleties. I had a huge feeling of accomplishment! The weirdest part?
I have never seen this lace pattern in my life, nor am I working on anything even remotely similar. I have no idea what it was!
Perhaps my right-brain is trying to tell me something. Perhaps my next project will involve figuring out the pattern for that lace design and writing it up. I was thinking about the new pink and teal lace weight yarn I have before I went to sleep. Of course, first I need to finish my Interlude Wrap! I’ve been letting it sit in my Zuma in favor of other projects that require less attention. Maybe it will get some attention next week after Con Carolinas this weekend. For now, I’m busy making shirts!
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Tags: conventions, diet, dreams, lace, mystery, pattern, stash, UFO, yarn
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June 5th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Hi Nuri,
I tried to get in touch to thank you for your lovely essay, which I’m happy to say that I’ll be delighted to use in an upcoming podcast. I got a message saying the email wasn’t delivered, so I thought maybe this would be the next best way to get in touch. Could please reply and confirm that you received my email? Thanks! Brenda
June 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Brenda,
Thank you! I replied to your email, which I did actually get. I have it set up to forward, so perhaps some automated process got confused and sent that non-delivery notice. Thanks for letting me know! ~Nuri