Lacey Desire

Can't believe it's been an entire year.  You'd think I haven't been knitting at all!  Well, you'd be wrong.  Just gotten lazy.  And, after a somewhat disastrous attempt at my first adult bit of clothing (an insanely difficult ladder shoulder cardigan), I got understandably shy about knitting.  Failing miserably at your best friend's Christmas present will do that to you.  And I still have to make it up to her.  That attempt will be the subject of the next blog post, now that I've finally settled on a pattern.

But... on to my summer flailing abouts.  Being in a severe  money crunch means having to use up my stash yarn.  Which became my stash yarn because I didn't like it, couldn't find anything to do with it, and various other reasons.  Harumph.  But better than no knitting at all.  So, while two cowls languish on the needles (one that I love and ran out of yarn and can't afford to buy more right now; and one that just leaves me kinda unimpressed with), I  needed inspiration.

I want to knit lace so very badly!  Specifically, I want to knit the picture you see above.  But lacking funds, and since non-allergic yarn is excessively more expensive than wool... I took out the one prize from my stash, the one rare gem that I've been hoarding, and coincidentally (yeah, right) the most expensive yarn I've ever bought!  Araucania Pomaire--two skeins of hand dyed pima cotton happiness.  Making a scarf by adapting this lace pattern.  It won't block like proper lace, so it won't be obvious, but the muted sage, moss, and almost blue douglas fir green dapples nicely with the yarn overs and reminds me of an ideal forest canopy.  So yeah, it's a scarf and they are so darn tedious, but.. until some lace yarn falls into my lap, it's a good substitute.