I lost helm control... the thing is pulling me in, can't help it...
Just a quick post to tell you what's going on moonstitches-wise...
Apart from being awfully busy with real life tasks and events last week, this little beauty got all my attention and let me neglect your mails and comments (very sorry!), your blogs, my blog, my challenge and just about everything else...
I only wanted to try a pattern I found while I was looking for those wallflowery projects in my craft magazines and can't stop knitting since...
After having to cast on six times and finally keeping all stitches that matter on my needles, mastering yarn overs and finding my rhythm, that yarn makes me curious, row after row, of what shade might come next, how long will it last, which one will blend into after that...
I am more than 24.000 stitches into knitting a lacey scarf. Not sure if I like the result but the process of knitting is highly enjoyable.
I never was a very advanced knitter, but it is really funny how five years of not much actual knitting made me a knit newbie again. I forgot how to left slanting decrease, do yarn overs, how to read a pattern, you name it...
It's quite amazing that I could cast on in the first place when you consider I couldn't remember how to connect my headset to the mac after having not called somebody via Skype for about two weeks... and having trouble recalling how to center the photos in this post after ten days of absence from my blog...
Looking at this makes me feel dizzy so I prefer my old "Burda SPECIAL - Stricken lernen" (Learning to knit) with its simple (maybe simplified but that's quite enough for me right now!) instructions.
Once I finished the scarf I will hopefully return to a 'normal' mode again, but for now I just have to hurry back to that yarn... You know that feeling, don't you?!
Hope you are all well!
Edit: It is quite exciting, we're almost there... only a little bit and the scarf is done.
Of course it is a rectangular scarf with a very, very simple pattern that's only a little lacey, and it has no border... I would love to make something like Jan did, or like that one Vanessa made, but I am much too afraid of not being able to read the pattern to even think about it...
If you happen to know an easy pattern for a triangular lace shawl, please tell me about it. I have the most beautiful silk/mohair yarn here, waiting to become something wearable... I could carry it around like it is now, yet I guess it would be an even greater pleasure to wear it.
Have a wonderful day!