Lace is coming up all over!

Now that I’ve decided I’m not too afraid of lace (and have knowledge of my limits)  - I’m knitting lace everywhere.  I tried out the cute Little Girl Shrug #288 with the lace panel at the bottom.  I did it with a yellow DK yarn my Mom bought in Chile on her last trip there.  It is very soft wool, and an soft kind of yellow.  It goes really well with my little one- and as soon as it’s blocked, she’ll be wearing it!  It took only a few hours to make (over the course of 3 or 4 days)- so it would make a great little gift.  Now what to do with left over yarn?  Ii don’t know how much I started with so I know even less about how much I have left!

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Spring Cleaning the yarn stash

Now that it’s looking like maybe it might possibly be spring after a few fake outs here in Seattle- and yes it was sort of snowing this morning on top of our flowering trees-  I’m doing my best to think about spring cleaning.  We’ve only been in this house a few months but there are things we can at least move around to make better use of them or the space.  So I’ve started my yarn spring cleaning- and doing mini-yarn swaps with friends of mine.  There’s nothing like new yarn to also get me inspired to knit new and wonderful things, and also to go ahead and face that some of those UFOs in my bag aren’t going to be finished.   At least I’m clearing up my head a bit from guilt for not finishing all those good intentioned garments, but there will be others.

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Shetland Triangle and lace

I have a hard time with lace.  I have to rip out at least 5 times before I can really get going on the project, and even then it’s hard to not make a mistake.  I hate it… and I love it.  It’s addictive.  Why do I torture myself??

But I’ve made a new discovery!  Lace looks great when done on bulky yarn.  I saw the Shetland Triangle in Eco Wool and had to have one.  It just happened we’d just got Eco Wool into Hilltop Yarn, so it was destiny.  It took me a week to finish it because, of course, it flew on my hands, and before I knew it I was giving the finished shawl a good blocking.    I loved EcoWool-  it is soft and fluffly (THICK!) and knit up beautifully.  i will be knitting with his yarn again and again and again.  I can’t wait to go back to the shop!

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