Paris Yarn

E. from work got back from his Paris vacation a couple of days ago and brought me this spiffy laceweight yarn! It's called Mohair Caresse, and the label says it's 73% mohair, 25% laine and 2% polyamide. What's laine? Heck if I know. But it's lovely yarn, fuzzy and soft. I would say it's pinkish/purplish/reddish with faint bits of black and even fainter bits of orange. I'll be researching this yarn to see what else I can find out about it and what I can do with 2 skeins of it.

Lots of Stuff

I set up the light box again, so here are pics of a bunch of things I've been meaning to get to.

This is a knitted scarf I did in December. I'm particularly pleased with it because it's one of the first times I've improvised something just because I wanted it. In this case, I needed a black scarf to go with an outfit for an Xmas party. I can wrap this around my neck a couple of times and still have enough length to knot it. It took me about 1 day to do:



Ravelry link for technical details.

And here are the better pics of the fez-wearing monkey amigurumi:





Ravelry link for technical details.

And improved grim reaper amigurumi pics. I still need to figure out the scythe, though:





Ravelry link for technical details.

And something new - a baby penguin! Addicted to amigurumi? Maybe. This one is for J.:





Ravelry link for technical details.

By the way, I thought the penguin eyes were blue, but be damned if they aren't green. I double-checked the yarn label and got M. to look at it too. Huh. I never have been all that good at telling green from blue.

And last, a crocheted dice bag I improvised for myself. I admit, there's a ball of yarn in there along with the dice just to show the shape:



Ravelry link for technical details.

Remind me not to let these stack up again...

Example of what the border will be...

Here's an example of what the border will look like. Maybe. Depends on if I figure out how to do it. :-) Also, notice how the leaves in her shawl are all open and airy? Mine will hopefully look that way too after blocking. That's how it is with lace.

Example link.

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Lace (Myrtle Leaf Shawl) 3

More 'in progress' pics, as requested. Sorry that they're kind of blurry - I'll have to figure out what to do about that.

Here it is at a little over 8 repeats:


And here it is at a little over 11 repeats:


I pinned it out for the 2nd pic, to give some idea of what it will look like after it's blocked. Pinned out, it currently measures 15" across and 18.75" long.

Only 35 repeats to go, and then the border!

Lace (Myrtle Leaf Shawl) 2

Moving along. I think my gauge is a bit smaller than the pattern recommends, but I'm not starting over again. I may end up with something between a scarf and a shawl, which will be fine. Also, I forgot to mention in my first post on this, the pattern is from "Victorian Lace Today." (See the book here. Read a review here.)

Lace (Myrtle Leaf Shawl)

Here's the great big cone of yarn I'm working from:

Here's the beginning of the shawl, which I started on straight needles:

Then after I got the cool needles from my sis-in-law, I moved it to those:

But after knitting more, the error in the pattern revealed itself. Notice how the section circled in red doesn't look like the section circled in green?

And here's the shawl after I undid to the lifeline and re-knitted it based on the errata: