Finale

Pulling out the waste yarn and picking up the stitches to start the second border.
















The finished product before blocking. Lumpy, lumpy, lumpy.

(sorry for the dark photo)













Blocking. Love those nupps that make the lily of the valleys.

















The Estonian Garden Lace Wrap complete!

Lily of the Valley

First edge, nearly complete.

I thought this would be the challenging section of the lacework, but it's dead easy.

Don't let lace scare you. It's still just a series of knits and purls with some yarn overs thrown in.









Lily of the valley edging.

26/41

Checking my Bloglines tonight, it seems like almost everyone was busy updating their blogs. I also came home to a little poke from someone to update my own, so here it is:

More of the same!

Woowoo!

I'm at about the 26th of 41 repeats before I work the edges. Because it's a very simple and repetitive pattern I'm moving along fairly steadily (for me).

For my non-knitting readers, lace just looks like lumpy knitting until you wet and stretch it .

Row, Row, Row

Holy Knitting!

I had a short but very enjoyable visit from Kelly today. She abandoned Koko yet again. We ate good food (if I don't say so myself), and knit while we watched some home reno shows.

(For aao: the funny coloured yarn at the bottom is just waste yarn that will be removed when I go back and pick up the stitches.)

Today's only downside was the snow. You, Mr. Snow, can go away!

There's been half a dozen robins hopping around my backyard today so I know spring will return.



The Addi lace needles are amazing. I highly recommend them for all you lace knitters. The pointy tips are a big help and they're smooth like you expect Addis to be but not slippery and they're almost completely silent. They're worth every penny.

The Year of Lace

Dear Readers: So sorry for blocking your comments and not providing a picture yesterday. Something went wonky! Please proceed!

This is definitely the Year of Lace for me.

Here we have the beginning of the Estonian Garden Wrap; a gigantic piece of lacework that will likely take me months to complete. That psychedelic coloured yarn is the provisional cast-on and I'm knitting with those new, fancy, dancy addi lace needles.