I love knitting lace. I don't have many opportunities to wear my lace shawls, but I do love the process. I had a great idea! I would make a box full of knitted heirloom lace as a gift to my granddaughters and grandsons. My intention is to make several different white and off white shawls that would be appropriate for brides to use on their wedding day.
The first of the shawls is on my needles now. I am making Rosemary Hill's gorgeous Fiori di Sole out of a silk and wool lace yarn. It is perfect, in my opinion, for a wedding shawl.
And that is the problem -"perfect". I want this to have absolutely no errors, not even those wonky stitches that sometimes appear, and that is a high bar.
I am at the midsection which is 5 repeats of 20 rows of a leaf pattern, that I find easy to intuit as I'm knitting. Ah, such conceit. I figured I could watch TV while I'm knitting this, no problem. Life lines? I don't need no stinking life lines!
So for the past two days I have been like Penelope, knitting by day and unraveling by night. All the rows I knit yesterday have to be re-knit because I found a large hole in the 5 stitch edge (the edge for Pete's sake, so easy!) that I couldn't fudge and I couldn't ignore.
Fortunately, I had put in life lines, as the day before I had to unknit 8 rows, one stitch at a time.
Glad to report the lifeline worked like it was suppose to and made the ripping out quicker with no fear of dropping stitches.
If I get through this, I also want to make a really pretty white heirloom lace baby blanket to add to the box. Kind of a hug from Nana, even if she isn't there.
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