My current favourite -- the one I feel most compelled to pick up -- is this Nepalese Caricia: mainly because of the colours and the way the purple/rose tints emerge in the pattern, and because percentage-done increases rapidly after the first 4 or 5 repeats. After 3 repeats, I patted it with water and pinned it out to dry overnight, and it's very true that blocked lace provides enormous motivation to keep working on what would otherwise look like a lumpy blob. I'll try this with the Parisienne scarf, which has been hibernating for so long.
But first, I should block what I have of Palimpsest, to renew my enthusiasm for this intriguing pattern.
Then there are all the French Girl Knits wips and queued patterns:
- Veronique: lower part done; upper part slowly growing to match
- Viola: main body nearly done -- at the stage where it needs frequent try-ons to make sure it doesn't get too long
- Satine: frogged back to row 3 to fix a missed k2tog in row 5, and now back to where I was; this is a lovely smooshy piece but the 9mm needles are a blessing and a curse -- wonderful that they make the fabric grow so fast but unwieldy all the same
And there are two Tofutsies socks on the go:
- Bandstand: pre-Caricia, sock #2 was being carried around for train/tram knitting -- it's about halfway to the heel
- Blackberry: sock #1 is at the heel stage, hence staying at home near its pattern sheet
And I'm resisting the urge to swatch or cast on:
- Stella: actually, I have started a sleeve with Soft Haze stranded with Studio but it's too thick and I'm thinking of trying the Soft Haze on its own
- Louisa or Niobe, with Harmony
- Swallowtail, with strandedinoz's Queen Anne's Garden mohair
- everything else that I have yarn and patterns for
I'm wondering about repurposing the Tiger Eyes lace pattern in a tunic, perhaps based on Satine or Louisa.
And semester starts next week, and I'm not really ready :-(
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