Below is Mikah closet, my sis Arlee and Derek.
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The author takes you through three steps to learn knitted lace techniques. All three lessons consist of knitting swatches with basic lace stitches, starting with size 7 needles and sport weight yarn, then size 5 needles and fingering, then the third swatch takes you into lace weight and size 3 needles.
It took me TWO (thats 2!) days to do the first swatch, knit rip, knit rip, I have no idea how many times. Then I remembered something, a tip, someone (Mim?) had given me about knitting lace; run a string through the stitches of a row you know is right, then if you mess something up in the next couple rows, you just rip back to the string. As I discovered, picking up stitches in a lace pattern is nearly impossible. After I started this, it was much easier to fix a mistake.
Here is my first swatch. (click for big, you gotta see that pin cushion :)
I made a lot of mistakes that I hadn't realized I'd made but for the most part, I think I didn't do too bad for my first time! :)
When she finally gave up trying to push her way through my legs (Jari and I both laughed at her tenacity so hard we cried), I went back to working on the second swatch. I've already had to frog it twice before I could put my string in, but its going ok now!
2 comments:
Joy is just the coolest kid! I love her face, so full of life.
I missed this post somehow and I'm so glad I found it because the pictures of Joy are adorable. She's such a pretty and happy baby.
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