Yeah, I know. Tulips? What? This yarn is quite loud. It's 100purewool.com's merino lace in the Happy Colors color way. Definitely happy colors, aren't they. Not colors I usually like but I loved this skein of yarn the moment I saw it. The colors said to me tulips, which are my favorite flower. At the time I had just learned entrelac and had come across Jane Araujo's beautiful entrelac shawl Dianna. I wanted to do something like it but with a tulip lace pattern instead of leaves. I couldn't find a tulip stitch pattern that I liked to I eventually took some elements from a couple I did find and continually adjusted the pattern till I got something I liked.
Here's a close up.
You can kind of see the tulips. Admittedly, this is not the right yarn for what I had in mind, but I think things will look better once it's blocked. If not I'm fully prepared to knit it again in a solid color for the pattern.
Here's a close up of just one square.
You can definitely see the tulip here, so that gives me some hope that everything will turn out okay.
Starting back up on this shawl wasn't exactly easy. I haven't been working on it till now because I caught my cat, the yarn eating terror, chewing on the yarn. She managed to chew right through where the ball was connected to the shawl. I shoved it in the drawer and tried to forget about it. Spring time and the craving for bright colors that comes with it had me pulling it back out. And finding out that the yarn had been chewed through in several places on the ball. Dozens actually. Not the work of the cat. Possibly a mouse (brought in by the cat) or moths (more on that in a bit). Thankfully whatever chewed on it hadn't chewed a hole into the ball, just kind of chewed around on the outside of it, so I just unraveled it, removing the smaller bits and rolling the bigger sections in balls incase I need them later. Eventually I reached a point where it seemed like there were no more chewed sections. I think I'll have enough to finish it. I was thinking I wanted to put a border on it, but I might not have enough for that. Probably going to knit a second shawl for writing up the pattern anyways so I can include a border.
Now about them moths. Me and my dad have some brewing stuff that we keep in a purple plastic box my mom provided for us. A couple weeks ago mom was baking and ran out of sugar and went to pull out the bag of sugar that was in the box only to find out it was full of moths. The kind of moths that eat wool. Needless to say, the sugar was no good, along with pretty much everything else in the box. We cleaned it out today and discovered there's holes in the handles for the box so now we know how the moths got it. And that also means a bunch probably got out as well. Gonna have to go through all my yarn now to make sure the moths didn't get at any of it. Nasty little buggers.
So the stuff I knitted for AK Kerani was in a fashion show this last weekend. I should get pictures from it sometime soon so I can share them with everybody I know.
And, that's it form me.
For now.
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