Kiss My Knits!

I decided to let the scarf sit overnight on the blocking board, just to be sure it was very dry. Making that decision stopped me from touching it every hour going, “is it dry yet? Is it dry yet?” Truth to tell, it probably dried in about ten hours. At least, that’s when the blocking board started to curve.

Why? Cheap board material? It got wet and bowed? The scarf shrunk from drying and the tension pulled it in? Eh, whatever, it didn’t hurt my scarf, so fine with me.

I put my “peppy” mix on iTunes and started removing the pins, expecting it to pull back in on itself some. It didn’t. At all. This stuff is very inelastic. Fortunately, that’s all to the good with lace. This stuff drapes great. Very elegant.

Pattern:
Fern lace wrap from The Little Box of Scarves (note, check for errata on website. There’s just a minor wording revision on this, but it’s always a good idea.
Needles: US 6
Cast on 39 as opposed to 59 pictured on front of pattern.
The yarn is kind of a mystery yarn. It was bought in St. Louis on sale, and looks like bamboo, although the label says soysilk. It’s not a current label, though. Do I have super-secret prototype yarn?
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I’ll be rolling this and the previous post into one gigantic blocking post in later.

I’m sending this to Tyrathia tomorrow. I showed her the pics and she was extra happy! But today, I’m taking it nonchalantly around to my local yarn stores. “Oh, this old thing?”

Eh, who am I kidding? I’m going to be beaming with pride too hard to act anything but giddy.

Happy dance! Happy happy happy dance!