The final Amazing Lace challenge is to find an unlikely model. I didn’t participate in the last challenge, due more to forgetfulness than anything else, and I have been racking my brain to think of a good unlikely lace model. I thought about statues, colonial people (though I didn’t see any the day I went looking), etc. Eventually, I went with this:
The other day, our computer’s hard drive was looking dangerously full, and in a somewhat brash move I decided to delete all of the music I had on the computer. In truth, this was not a horrible decision, because all the music I have was already on the ipod, and I don’t burn CDs ever. But this meant that when I opened my iTunes to listen to Tim Gunn’s Project Runway podcast, it was the only thing in my iTunes! Since it was feeling lonely, I decided to investigate the whole world of podcasts more.
We here at Pepperknit strive to serve the public. So as of tonight, you can download the pdf patterns for the Anastasia Socks or the Zokni Socks all by yourself! No more middleman (i.e., me). No extra step. A loss of personal touch, of course, but you can send me an email (mintyfreshflavor at gmail dot com) to say hi if you want. Any time.
Because you’ll get to the toe, and you’ll be merrily kitchenering along, doing a fabulous job keeping tension even and the like, and you’ll get to the end and discover you have quite a few more stitches on one side than on the other.
It turns out that what I thought was an allergy attack on Saturday was a full-blown cold. I feel like crap; yesterday I stayed home from work and today I thought I’d go in in the afternoon, but since I get out of breath walking to the bathroom, it’s not looking good.
When last I wrote I was trying to figure out how to make a single leaf. Part of the complication was that I didn’t want the background of the work to be reverse stockinette, and I wanted the appearance of shaping on the leaf on both sides of the leaf. Late on Sunday, I finally made it work.
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