I've finally completed the first repeat of the Celtic Knot Stole. How long has it been? Three weeks? Four? Anyway, here it is --
As you can see, these are not teensy tiny repeats. Each one is almost 100 rows long, and there are four of them. I don't expect the next three to take quite so long as the first. The knitting goes faster as I become more familiar with the pattern and the thread (oops, sorry, yarn). And hopefully I will not again need to tink 15 rows of laceweight. That was soooo not fun.
But still . . . I don't foresee any stimulating and exciting blog posts in the near future. In two weeks or so, if I'm lucky, there will be the halfway point, and then we have the thrill of the third repeat, and, well, you see where this is going.
The borders should be interesting though. That's where we take those invisibly caston stitches that have been vacationing on the cable and do fun stuff ("fun" being defined as "something I have never done before and don't know how to do").
In the meantime, however, take a seat on the Ho-Hum Express and fasten your seat belt.
7 comments:
So far, I have yet to be bitten by the lace bug. I just watch it bite others.
It might not be exciting to see a row added but it is getting done; beautifully! I am in the twilight zone of lace shawl knitting.....but eventually-voila!
What a beautiful lace shawl!!! I think you've gotten a lot done in the last couple of weeks. Can't wait to see it finished.
Knitting with lace weight is never boring! And I can't wait to hear how the doing-stuff-you-haven't-done-before goes! :)
I have enough trouble seeing my stitches in fingering weight, I'm afraid laceweight would make me go blind. Or perhaps just crazy.
Your stole is gorgeous! I love the color. I am sloggy away on a shawl. The beads are NOT cooperating.
It looks very pretty. There comes a time in every project in which it is basically "more of the same", but at that point I think of the project as a friend and I almost resent getting to a point where I have to actually concentrate again.
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