Mystery Stole 3--It's going to be a Marathon--
--not a sprint.
After the catastrophe last Saturday and a couple of days cooling off period, Mystery Stole 3 Clue 1 made it back to the needles. We(meaning the stole and I) had a few teammates this time: 3 crochet needles(in the event of another crochet hook mishap), dental floss and sulky thread--both for lifelines.
I use Sulky thread, which is a kind of shiny metallic looking sewing thread, for my cross stitch projects because it comes out of the piece easily when you're done with it. So I thought it would be perfect for knitting lifelines--I was wrong. It's too light and spends more time getting in your way than actually being useful.
So the unwaxed dental floss came into play--it's a great weight and after you knit through the row it's threaded through(which is a b*tch in my opinion)it stays out of the way. I've decided it's in my best interest to put in a lifeline every 10 rows or so--we will not have a repeat of the clue 1 disaster. The lifeline rows slow me down WAY more than the beading does. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beading--so much fun! I just want to start throwing beads into everything I knit.
I downloaded clue 2 this morning and I look forward to jumping into this clue this weekend. Of course all this MS3 stuff is putting a real crimp in my Harry Potter knitting. Hopefully I'll get the 2nd clue done quickly so I can do so mindless log cabin squares this week--like when I'm waiting in line for the midnight showing of OotP perhaps :)
Without further ado, here's clue 1 completed:
Yarn: Misti Alpaca--it's a sort of pewter gray?
Beads: 8/0 beads that are clear with mirror like centers--you can't really see them well in the pic but they're lovely.
Needles: #4 Addi Lace Needles**
**The Addi's have given me an injury. I carry my yarn in my left hand and my right ends up pushing the needle tip back after I knit a stitch. The points have stabbed the side of my finger enough to have broken through the skin! So I'll be wearing a band aid for the remainder of the clues. Whenever I knit lace I feel like I'm training for an Olympic sport--like finger gymnastics--my fingers are all over the place and if not done with precision something usually goes wrong. Like a dropped stitch, split yarn, or something worse(and I'm not going to tempt fate by trying to come up with the worst case scenario on this one).
After the catastrophe last Saturday and a couple of days cooling off period, Mystery Stole 3 Clue 1 made it back to the needles. We(meaning the stole and I) had a few teammates this time: 3 crochet needles(in the event of another crochet hook mishap), dental floss and sulky thread--both for lifelines.
I use Sulky thread, which is a kind of shiny metallic looking sewing thread, for my cross stitch projects because it comes out of the piece easily when you're done with it. So I thought it would be perfect for knitting lifelines--I was wrong. It's too light and spends more time getting in your way than actually being useful.
So the unwaxed dental floss came into play--it's a great weight and after you knit through the row it's threaded through(which is a b*tch in my opinion)it stays out of the way. I've decided it's in my best interest to put in a lifeline every 10 rows or so--we will not have a repeat of the clue 1 disaster. The lifeline rows slow me down WAY more than the beading does. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beading--so much fun! I just want to start throwing beads into everything I knit.
I downloaded clue 2 this morning and I look forward to jumping into this clue this weekend. Of course all this MS3 stuff is putting a real crimp in my Harry Potter knitting. Hopefully I'll get the 2nd clue done quickly so I can do so mindless log cabin squares this week--like when I'm waiting in line for the midnight showing of OotP perhaps :)
Without further ado, here's clue 1 completed:
Yarn: Misti Alpaca--it's a sort of pewter gray?
Beads: 8/0 beads that are clear with mirror like centers--you can't really see them well in the pic but they're lovely.
Needles: #4 Addi Lace Needles**
**The Addi's have given me an injury. I carry my yarn in my left hand and my right ends up pushing the needle tip back after I knit a stitch. The points have stabbed the side of my finger enough to have broken through the skin! So I'll be wearing a band aid for the remainder of the clues. Whenever I knit lace I feel like I'm training for an Olympic sport--like finger gymnastics--my fingers are all over the place and if not done with precision something usually goes wrong. Like a dropped stitch, split yarn, or something worse(and I'm not going to tempt fate by trying to come up with the worst case scenario on this one).
Comments
Marly
knitthing.blogspot.com
Isn't beading this way divine? I LOVE it! I, too, want to bead everything now. LOL
A thimble might work, too, if you have one of those.