FOD - Finished Object Dance of the Lace Throw

[celticdragonfly]

The diamonds lace throw is finished! Bound off, ends woven in. YAY!!!

I think it needs to be blocked. I'm dreading the very idea. I don't have the right kind of pins for that. bkseiver, I so wish you could just come over and help with it. For now it is folded and shoved back into the paper bag. (But I neatly ballwindered the remaining yarn on that last skein and tucked the label inside. All tidied up.)

The lace throw had been the initial high scorer on my what-to-knit-next poll, and of course I do whatever the voices tell me to I'm interested in input from my friends, so I did that next. (After a brief scuffle with the Lace Scarf of Evil.)

Since then the winning vote on the poll has been for starting Maggie's beaded knit dress.
http://www.chiagu.com/crumpets.html

So now I will go cast on to swatch for that. It would be a fairly small swatch, in stockinette - but I know my knit and purl gauges are not identical, and since it's knit in the round (yay!) I will swatch in the round. Which means a much bigger swatch. But must be done. My life will now be very, very pink for a while.

Comments

[macgyvergal.livejournal.com]

Are you going to use pink beads or some other color? Just let me know what color and when you need them. I'll be glad to pick them up for you at the store and give you the benefit of my employee discount as well as any sale that may be running at the time.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Ah, we have the beads. I ended up going down to Artful Bead in south Fort Worth. Lovely experience - I walked in and said I needed size 6 glass seed beads, they took me right to them. And they had a toybox for Maggie. She picked the color, a pale pink a bit lighter than the yarn.

[macgyvergal.livejournal.com]

Glad you were able to find them and Maggie's toybox as well.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

The dress is very cute... a little princess dress.

We'll be getting to that stage in a few years here. :)

DV