I have been very slowly knitting & designing a lace shawl w/beads. Affectionally nick named the man-thong. I like complicated patterns, so the plan is, as I get bored of knitting one element of the pattern, I will add another. But I have no real plan for any of this. So I’m really just making it up as I go. Which is fine till I decide something really isn’t working for me. Do I rip out till the starting point or make a mistake?
No not me, I have a crochet hook.
Or my current problem, if I can’t decide between two different designs? Well why not try both? One on each side. Then I’ll go a few rounds and compare.
Then the loosing side will again suffer the crochet hook of correction. Continue reading
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what’s another word for loincloth
So I have started knitting what I hope to be a lovely lacy mo-hair shawl.
I’m just using Patons lace yarn, which isn’t super pricey and knit’s rather nicely. But will hold up better with frogging a few times better than the reeeeally nice dark gray alpaca I bought.
I’m also working beads into it. I love knitting with beads. I have no idea why, it’s a pain in the rear really. I have to hook each one on a tiny crochet hook and place it on the right stitch in the pattern. I’ve done it before by stringing them on the yarn ahead of time, but the mo-hairs fuzz gets stuck in the beads and bunches up. Not pretty. Continue reading