One Finished.....

Mystery Stole 3 - Swan Lake


I used a lovely lace weight merino from The Yarn Yard. It's much finer than anything I had previously used and took me a while to get used to it but it was worth it. I wasn't sure I would like its lack of symmetry with a point at one end and the wing at the other but I love the finished look. It has got beads on but they are really hard to see in the photo...in fact if I made another I would use more obvious beads.
Finished size 72" x 14 1/2"


The wing "feathers"




The wing is curving round the front and the point is hanging down.


And another close-up.




...Another one started....

I started this in France but I've been busy with other things and progress has been slow


It's "Lacy Kerchie fScarf" by Lisa Daehlin and the pattern is in Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2006. I'm using Phil'Bambou from Phildar on 4mm needles, colour Eucalyptus. The yarn is really drapey and with fantastic stitch definition but like other bamboo yarns I've used very splitty.

Mystery Continues

I'm no further forward in guessing the theme of Mystery Stole 3 but I love it. This is how it looks at the end of clue 3.
It measures 27" x 16" - rough measurements because I haven't pinned it out.

Next week the clue will be 135 rows instead of the 50 we had this last time and then there won't be another clue until Friday 3rd August when the theme will be revealed.

I've been thoroughly enjoying knitting this stole partly I think because of the enforced waiting between sets of instructions so that there's no time to get bored with it. And it's funny but since I started this I've not really wanted to knit anything other than lace although I *have* managed to finish off these socks that were almost complete before the stole

These are knitted in Blue Moon Fibre Arts Socks That Rock - Medium weight merino colour "Spring Fling". This is the first time I've used this yarn because it has to be ordered from America but it won't be the last. It was lovely to knit with, feels lovely on and there is an astonishing range of colours available. I've been very jealous of the lucky people who belong to the STR yarn club - closed to new members now and I'm just waiting for next years subscriptions to open.

Here are pictures of the toe and heels.




and these Stroud Wool Socrates SuperSock from Violet Green's April Sock Club yarn




and Montego Bay Scarf that fitted nicely into time between stole knitting

The pattern is in Interweave Knits Summer 2007.I used Handmaiden Sea Silk colour Capri on 5.5 mm needles. It was a very fast and relaxing knit so much so that I've started another in Handmaiden Sea Wool colour Pinata.

Can't wait until Friday......unfortunately we'll be spending four hours on a train going to Edinburgh on Saturday early in the morning for a wedding later that day and then the same journey back again on Sunday. I shan't be able to concentrate enough to work on the stole and on Tuesday we're setting off to France via Kate's in London so that means I shan't get started until Thursday at best. Hmmm....I know it's not a race......

Mystery Stole Progress

This is how it's looking after completing clue 1. It's definitely going to be a "lacey" lace stole so much so that I've had serious doubts during the last week about undoing it and starting again on smaller needles - and with more prominent beads. But now that clue 2 is out I want to continue. It'll be nice and light and airy and any unevenness will go when it's blocked.

But I am finding the fineness of the yarn a bit testing and in future I'll make my lace with no thinner than the Zephyr yarn originally suggested for this stole.