FO: A Stork's Nest Scarf

I meant to post the FO the next day after my teaser, but my husband took the camera cord in his briefcase and left it at his office for several days!! It definitely is lace.

This is "A Stork's Nest Scarf" by Nancy Bush. It was in Piecework Magazine Jan/Feb 2008. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it, and have been meaning to knit it all year. It was going to be for my mom for Christmas, but when I got sick - I couldn't finish it. I think I'll put it away until Mother's Day. She could wear it in the spring just as an accent and not get overheated with it. I hope she likes it.

I used Malabrigo laceweight, which I love. The pictures are a little more vibrant than the yarn, I think. It's really a more pastel blue, but it has been dark and gloomy here so it's hard to take accurate pictures.

I finished something!

I finally finished something. However, blocking it may have pushed me past the line of sanity. Seriously, I am the worst blocker ever.

I'll have FO pictures soon!  Can you guess what it is before I show you the after effect?

And in other news, I am officially off bedrest and return to work tomorrow....  wish me luck.  I'm actually nervous about returning to work.  I feel like a little girl the night before her first day of school.

Bedrest

I'm on bedrest for a week (yes, I'm ok - just precautions, and I'll explain later). You'd think I'd love it... think of all that knitting... but I don't love it. *sigh* It's just making me crazy.

Happy New Year

I know. I totally disappeared. But I had nothing interesting to say or show you.

I still don't really.

I was in two weddings in December, worked on Christmas day, stayed on the road, and frankly I was too tired to find anything interesting... Oh, I was also sick enough to need IV fluids and miss a week of work.

I did get a Woolee Winder for Christmas from my husband. At first, I was flustered. I couldn't get the whorl from my Ladybug to attach. It wouldn't slide on at all - wouldn't even budge! After some reading, it seems the Ladybug whorls have problems sometimes with sliding on to the original flyer... they are manufactured for a tight fit. Sometimes, too tight. While I had no problems getting it on the original flyer, I could not get it on my WW at all. I contacted the maker, Nathan, and he suggested filing it down with a fingernail file lightly on the square edges. It worked like a charm! Now, I'm spinning high.

And, let me tell you.... I am spinning some alpaca I bought at a fiber festival from Blue Note Alpacas and it's heaven. Soft, spins beautifully. I am in love. And it's gorgeous.