The yarn from last week's yarn emergency has been formed into this: Thereby ensuring that there is at least one Mystery Science Theater baby sweater in the world. There's more blah blah blah and a chart over at sewgeeky.
I also finished this stole/shawl thing for Ryan, so that when the future occupant of that sweater gets here, she can stay warm. The yarn is a wool/alpaca blend, and while blocking it I remembered why you don't see a lot of high-end scented candles in Wet Goat fragrance.
I was going to do a cool edge from Nicky Epstein's book, but something went stupid and very very wrong. So I went with knotted fringe.
I'm rather pleased that I turned the sweater around in a week. The stole took a bit longer; I got the yarn at the beginning of January. Even though the lace design is a pretty simple 12-row repeat, I found that I couldn't work on it with a lot of distractions, so I had to have a second, less engaging project going at the same time to have a portable option.
It's my first real lace project and I will definitely be doing more things like that; it appealed to the side of me that only wants to work on really complicated things. My secondary project right now involves Fun Fur and garter stitch, so I don't think I'm turning into too big of a knitting snob.
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