Wednesday, January 20, 2010

1.20 Approaching blobhood

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The curse of the lace knitter: after the first 40 or 50 rows, lace items look like blobs. We wave them around and say things like "see, this bottom edge will actually be straight across when I'm done, and the pattern looks like 'this'" as we stretch a 10 cm square out over the palm of the hand. People nod and back away carefully.

4 comments:

pacalaga said...

It's okay, it makes it all that much more impressive when it's blocked!

Diane said...

But you see, this just adds to the mystery of knitting lace. Carrie's right, it impresses the pants off people. (Me too actually.)

beadlizard said...

The stole I knit for Scullery was a blob from day one until blocking. Usually there is at least a hint of beauty now and then, but that stole required a huge belief that blocking would do the trick. Glad it did!

Cookie said...

The magic of blocking is made magical by the horror of lace in progress.