I'm grateful that my family is being blessed by both this Spring.
Re-birth.
My 27 year old son was released from the hospital today. He's been there since last Sunday going through detox. He relapsed after 1 year and 10 months (or so) of clean time.
Today he's headed back down the path to recovery and I'm thankful for that.
Add him to your prayer/good vibes list if you are into that kind of thing.
His name is Dusty.
Birth:
My niece is having a little girl, any day now.
Her name is going to be Kara, but my niece has decided she's going to call her "Frankie" after my dad.
So, I'm knitting this for "Frankie."
...the Lacy Sweater from Zoë Mellor's Adorable Knits for Tots.
I'm using Rowan Handknit DK Cotton in Lupin #305.
In my pic the yarn looks more blue/purple.
This
is what Lupin really looks like. There was a Knit-Along for the Lacy Sweater that started a year ago this month.
That's me...always a few steps behind the crowd.
One irritating and fairly well documented thing about this pattern is that the lace at the bottom of the sweater doesn't play well with the rest of the sweater. Because the non-scalloped edge is lacy to the very edge of the edge, when you pick up the number of stitches needed to start the sweater, it pulls the lace edge taunt, which in turn makes a nasty pucker along the few rows of stockinette stitch between the lace edge and the eyelet at the bottom of the sweater. (Whew!)
I tried a couple things to relieve this, like adding a couple more repeats to the lace; only to realize that it's not the length of the lace that makes it pucker - it's how/where you have to pick up stitches along the unscalloped edge. It doesn't allow for any give and so - puckers.
I decided to find another lace pattern and settled on Baby Tears from Nicky Epstein's Knitting on the Edge and it's working perfectly! That nasty pucker is gone, gone gone! The Baby Tears lace is not as intricate as the lace the pattern calls for and it's not as long. It's a 7 to 9 stitch length lace as opposed to the 8 to 16 inch stitch lace in the pattern. I like it a lot better...I think it's more baby like.
The picture shows a completed back and a started front.
Since the picture I've begun the flower motif.
Again this week, knitting time has been in short supply -
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some solid knitting time this weekend.
