The lace, she is done.

[indeliblesasha]

Thank you so much for all of your kind comments on my last post about the lace I have knit for my best friend.

I took it off the wires this morning and took some photos of it and the gloves that I knit Saturday. There's a hat too, but it's not quite done yet. Few more decreasing rounds.

I wanted to share them with you. :)

First, the before and after blocking pictures, for oooohing and ahhhhing over the magic of lace blocking. ;)



(As you can see, where other knitters have cats to help them with blocking, I have toddlers.)

And then the glamour shots:




And then the detail shots:


Here you can see the join. It looks MUCH more subtle in person, I lit it here so it was really obvious. It doesn't blend quite as cleanly in the YO's as I had hoped, but it's better than a three needle bind off would have been, I think.


While I was pinning it out I started seeing all the little glitches I had made here and there that didn't show up while I was knitting. Fortunately none of them are ghastly, and I hope add a bit of handmade-with-love charm to it. :D

And here's a shot of the gloves:

Comments

[lady_myfanwy]

Lovely! Very nice work. I am just learning to knit, so I am in awe. lol

[indeliblesasha]

You know, now that I've done it, I can honestly say that the hardest part is knowing how to read your stitches. Lace means taking a lot on faith, but the actual stitches are easy. I bet you'll be ready to do lace in no time ;)