Lace Virgin
I am knitting my very first lace project. Lace is simple, right? All you need to know is how to knit, purl, yarnover, SSK, and K2tog. It should be easy!
Oh wait…I forgot count. You have to be able to count. This is where I went horribly, horribly wrong.
For my lace project, I chose the Interlude Lace Wrap by Sharon Brown. This is a perfect stash-busting project, as it will use all of my lovely golden Lana Grossa Brillo yarn (which is discontinued and fairly rare, so there is no chance to get more). It looks simple enough, and it IS simple enough. However, I seem to have a problem with forgetting to YO after the last K2tog on a row. This wreaks all kinds of havok on the following pattern row. I re-knit various rows in the first pattern repeat for hours. It made me want to cry. Finally, yesterday I managed to do an entire pattern repeat (20 rows) without screwing it up once. Yay! Now I have 2.5 pattern repeats worth of lace knitted. Only a million more to go!
I have spent way too long on this to only have 12 inches of knitting (or at least, that is how I feel), but hey…lace!
Also, I put in a life line last night. After an entire repeat without flaws, there is no way I’m going to risk screwing it up if I have to rip back!
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