My 2nd lace shawl project (Madli's Shawl by Nancy Bush, from IK Summer 2004) has been jinxed from the start. I finished the 26 row border each time, only to mess up and had to painfully rip it - and I did this a total of 4 times!! The pattern requires a lot of concentration, and my brain tends to drift off when I knit... Obviously the shawl didn't like competing for brain space with mundane thoughts such as 'what shall we have for dinner?'
On the 5th try, I finally got past the border, put a lifeline there (Pearlie White Anti-bacterial Floss for the winz), and happily knitted really fast for another 3 inches or so. When I finally stopped to congratulate myself on my intensely prolonged attention span, this is what I found :
On the 5th try, I finally got past the border, put a lifeline there (Pearlie White Anti-bacterial Floss for the winz), and happily knitted really fast for another 3 inches or so. When I finally stopped to congratulate myself on my intensely prolonged attention span, this is what I found :
Two. Borders.
Seems that I repeated the border pattern a 2nd time instead of starting on the actual shawl pattern.
There is no way I am going to rip this again (plus I worry for the state of the delicate lace yarn), so I've decided that my Madli shall just have 2 borders.
5 comments:
maybe u could have knit the border for the whole shawl? just an idea. hehe~
Oh, no! Well, yours will be unique now. And a double border will look very pretty.
yikes 2 borders... doesn't matter. it doesn't look very strange anyways ;) maybe you can repeat the border thing near the end too heh
hey i'm using the same flozz rofl! (not for my teeth. for the kimono)
I like how it looks, and that yarn is so pretty!
one chinese idiom came to my mind on reading your struggle with madli..."duo zai duo nan". ganbatte ne!
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