#maker knits

[makerandbean]

sometimes you finish your beautiful wingspan shawl, wash it, pin it out for blocking on the only space large and animal-free enough to do so in the house (your bed)… aaaaand then forget that cotton takes a hundred years to dry, and suddenly it’s 11pm and both the shawl and your mattress are still wet.

so this is where i slept last night:

[makerandbean]

first lace shawl made with my handspun :)

(light fingering/heavy lace silkpaca 2-ply with toho 8/0 seed beads in anodised gold; pattern is mojito by boo knits. done in about a month.)

[makerandbean]

went to do one of the arms of my loupy cardi, and was like. hmmm there’s not the correct number of stitches on here. Why.

and then i saw the above with the shoulder increase line and. screams.

i unfortunately don’t think it’s a “ladder and fix” type situation. i’d have to also ladder up from the bottom of the cardigan, and adjust some of the cast-on stitches in the armpit, and and and… there’s decreases and such in the bit underneath the armhole

i think i’m going to have to frog it all the way back up past the sleeve holes 😭

[makerandbean]

edging progress! which i would be more pleased with if this weren’t several months of knitting… when i crunched the numbers and realised the edging represented nearly the same number again as the body/borders, i thought for sure i’d calculated wrong. but now i’m actually knitting it, that feels about right.

i’ve memorised the repeats now though, so hopefully things will go quicker now! nearly one short side down. two long sides and another short to go.

[makerandbean]

sometimes. you are a little beast. taking a nice little snooze under some knitting 🥺

[makerandbean]

good places to cast on 200+ stitches of a lace pattern: literally anywhere other than a dark auditorium!!!! don’t do that!!

[makerandbean]

oh these pictures REALLY do not do her justice… so excited to be able to wear her!!!

(pattern is the celestarium shawl, with stellar wave edging)

[makerandbean]

one thing to know about bean is. she wuv to have lace knit atop her while she nap.