One down…

One to go :)

I’m hoping to have them done by the weekend.

I also started a small experiment in entrelac lace.  It has not been notably successful as yet, but I think the problems can be solved with a different yarn.

I was attempting to work a version of Cat’s Paw lace into the first tier of blocks here - and also working out placement of the stitch pattern within the blocks.

In this attempt, I think there’s too much space between the patterns.  It doesn’t look right and lacks balance.

Here, the spacing is better but I’ve got at least one more idea to try before I make a decision.  That will involve off-setting the patterns to the right and left instead of placing them one directly above the other.

The yarn is Schaefer Anne and I’ve had it in the stash for quite a while.  It sat so long partly because I bought it to use as sock yarn (Doh!  That’s what it was made for!) but it’s weight, which is finer that ordinary sock yarn, made me nervous.  So I stashed it thinking it would make good lace yarn - you know - when the time came where I wanted to knit lace.  I had never seen lace weight yarn at that time, so my logic seemed reasonable to me then :)

Of course I have some familiarity with lace weight now and the Anne doesn’t come anywhere near it.  Lace weight yarn will take care of most of my issues here.  A color change would help too.  I love the rich, saturated blues and violets of the Anne, but it’s not suitable (at least to my eye) for this piece.  Or at least, for what I envision this piece becoming.

The blue baby blanket is still in progress and the green shawl still isn’t blocked.  In the kind of humidity we’ve been getting, I don’t want a baby blanket in my lap and I really want a dry day for blocking the shawl.  Yes, I’m still working on the pattern :) 

See, our weather this summer has been very nearly tropical - not so much temperature-wise, though we’ve had our share of hot days - but in terms of humidity and precipitation.  It has rained nearly every day for a month.  Not all day, mind you.  Things will start to cloud over in the late afternoon/early evening and the wind will come up - somethimes quite violently.  Then it gets dark and the lightening and thunder start.  And then the skies open and it pours like water out of a bucket.  Yesterday and today, it’s been doing this off and on all day instead of only once in the afternoon.  Poor Goldie, who is not at all happy about thunder, has been spending a great deal of time under the bed.  Jade?

Doesn’t seem to trouble her in the slightest :) 

Up in the wee smalls again tomorrow to bring dad into Boston.  While he is doing better, his hands and shoulders are still bothering him some - enough so that he doesn’t want to risk driving any distance.  Around the corner to the market is one thing but driving into (and in!) the city is something else entirely. 

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