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Icarus complete!!
I've been away for a couple of weeks doing this; Icarus ! My first ever lace shawl, and I have been bitten by the lace-y bug! I've heard the Yarn Harlot speak of the 'magic' of lace blocking , and now I too have experienced the magic ... and it is AMAZING! [although I had to wear a plastic on my thumbs for the next couple of days after pushing all those pins into the carpet] This shawl chose me - I went to see Sunshine at the cinema [alright, but mince for the last 3rd of the film] and the spacecraft was called Icarus. Random knit-blog surfing after the film found me at Mirum's blog . I love the design - it's Icarus ' frame with the feathers having melted to the ends. I used handpaintedyarn.com's laceweight - colourways Bombon and Sunshine Yellow. Like Icarus, I too began in a cocky manner, convinced of my success and confident that I didn't need lifelines or stitch-markers to mark pattern repeats. I learned my lesson [along with how to tink lace and...
Hiya, love your scarf, that's the yarn from Uruguay or something, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOkay, as for your sock, would you like the fit better if you pulled the heel gusset down at the back till it touches the floor, then see if you need to unwind a couple of inches at the toe and redo the toe decreases sooner?
I know it would involve a wee bit of frogging, but only so far, and it might make you enjoy the fit better and feel more up to tackling the second sock. x K