I am a knitting lunatic, I fear.
To get over the trauma that was the Cap Shawl, I have cast on a Neibling doily. With #30 cotton and 1.5mm needles.
Lets all hope I don’t drop a stitch on this one!
Seeing as Rosa is all done bar the buttons, I cast on for a new garment, too. I’m still feeling the Kim Hargreaves love, and I love me some sparkle, so I pulled some KidSilk Night out of the stash and began knitting Precious.
Those are the fronts, I actually finished the back in a couple of days while I was at a dance comp with Em. The pattern actually has little seed beads all over, but because the KidSilk Night is shot with silver, I’m only putting the beads around the edges.
That’s all my knit news, I had the mopes for a few days after the Cap Shawl debacle! That yarn has been shoved down deep into a stash box until it learns it’s lesson. I will admit though, that I’ve already been looking at alternate patterns for the yarn, I don’t think I could bear to do the same shawl again!
ooh a niebling! I have that on my to do this for this year. Good for you. Back on the lace horse, just a difference horse.
Kid Silk Night….sigh. Lovely.
That looks like a lovely cardi Donna – luxurious and mysterious – just how I (used to) like my men, erm, I mean yarn…
Yeah, I don’t think I could do the same pattern again – definitely not with the same yarn, anyway! Go the niebling!!
You go, girl. (Love Niebling. Make sure to tell us what you think as you knit it. Was that guy the Mozart of doilies, or what?)
Way to throw yourself back in the deep end! Thanks to you after my next two lace rows I’m adding a lifeline 🙂
(I’d remind the Cap Shawl yarn that if it doesn’t behave it’ll become bunny fodder)
Oh boy, a Neibling. I would have been a chicken and jumped back into lace with a worsted weight shawl.
The new sweater is going to be gorgeous.
Good on you!!Looking forward to seeing what magic you turn with the Neibling
i dont know about lunacy but you are braver than i would be after the cap shawl thing. precious looks lovely, great pattern, awesome yarn. for you or em?
Is there not a way that you can thread a white contrasting color lifeline slowly through the last sane round and slowly unravel the stitches?
Wish you luck!
You are not a lunatic, just a lace knitting addict like some of us. I guess we are always challenged by the complexity of the pattern & always ready to give it a go. Happy knitting.
The lace is gorgeous!