Knitting with a little help from my friends...

I finished my first lace project!

I was inspired by Franklin Habit's Night Cap on Knitty.

So Alison helped me alter the pattern to make a scarf, knitting straight instead of in the round and helped me choose yarn and needle size.

Alison said to show off the beautiful pattern I should choose a yarn with sheen. She also said I could get away with a worsted, so I chose Shine. Here's where the problem came in. I found some Shine in my stash that I had received from our stash swap party. The color was Sea Scape. I happily started knitting away. I came to the end of my second ball and went to order more, only to discover that we haven't carried that color since 2007. Oops.

After asking advice from a couple people in the office, Christy found two balls in HER stash of the discontinued color and donated it to my cause. She texted me on a Sunday to tell me she'd found it--it made my weekend.

So once again, with help from the other knitters here at Knit Picks, I get a gorgeous finished product that makes me look like a pro--when apparently it takes a tribe for me to knit a scarf.

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Comment by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on March 10, 2009 at 8:28pm: Way to go. It is beautiful.

Comment by EdwardRad on March 9, 2009 at 9:19am: I love your scarf!! It's such a nice color and I"m glad that you were able to get more of that colorway. I'm very excited for you, I finished my first lace project a few months ago and it's so rewarding, isn't it? Great work, keep it up! ^_^

Comment by MarciH on March 5, 2009 at 1:39pm: I love all the slouchy beret out there right now. It's on my list to try one of those.

Comment by Peggy Stuart on March 5, 2009 at 11:57am: Lace is so much fun, in all its wonderful forms! --Peggy

Comment by ekgheiy on March 5, 2009 at 11:04am: Very cool. I'm working on a lacy slouchy beret now, which is my first "real" lacy project. Although, I guess anything with YO's in the pattern could be considered lace? If so, then it's not my first. Ha! :-)

-ekgheiy
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