Using My Powers for Good
So what good is marinating my brains in lace knitting, other than turning all evil snark-weasel on badly-knit examples of lovely lace patterns?
We'll see - I'm making an either brave or totally mad attempt to repair a good friend's triangular Orenburg shawl which has a hole chewed in it by her cat.
The yarn is Jaggerspun Zephyr Wool-Silk, which makes a nice stable stitch that doesn't run.
The hole runs diagonally, taking three diamonds out of the lace ground section, so it's not a simple matter of picking up at the bottom and knitting straight up.
No, it's a puzzle, this is.
Labels: fixing stuff, lace knitting
posted by Alwen | 3:11 PM
5 Comments:
What a wonderful challenging puzzle. She is lucky to have you!
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When you're done with that, would you re-knit my broken wrist? I would just as soon not have this titanium plate in my arm. Couldn't be MUCH harder than repairing/re-knitting Orenberg lace.
(Did the cat survive?)
One of the recent issues of Piecework (I think) had an article about restoring an old shawl. It's such a painstaking and intricate project. You are the perfect person for this.
Both brave AND totally mad, I think! And like Donna Lee said, the perfect person for this project!
Oh. Wow.
Puzzle, indeed! That's certainly a more positive spin than "total nightmare mess". :)
If anyone can do it, though, it's you!
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