Tuesday, November 13, 2012

You Lose Some and You Win Some

I tatted away all last week on my Lace Mat, only to discover after finishing Round 4 except for the little clovers, that I had made a Dreadful Mistake and had to cut off the whole round. Bother.














I didn't feel much like looking at it for a while, so I knitted all weekend. I eyed my dwindling skein of yarn with some trepidation, but finished the project with a whopping 2 yards left over.
















The pattern is "Wingspan" by Maylin Tri'Coterie Designs, available as a free pattern on Ravelry. In a thicker yarn, it works up as a shawlette, but my rather thin yarn came out as a scarf,which is what I wanted anyway. I spun the yarn with a drop spindle, using hand painted Blueface Leicester top from Three Waters Farm.

You can see my earlier progress near the bottom of this post.

5 comments:

  1. Lovely to see another wingspan, love the colours!

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  2. Shame about the tatting, but I love your scarf!! The pattern shows the different colours of the yarn up wonderfully. Good spinning on a spindle too.

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  3. Lovely, and you spines the yarn how brilliant, well done on a lovely scarf
    Margaret

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  4. Martha, that's lovely! And what a wonderful job you did spinning. Looks luscious!

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  5. Sooo Sorrry about the tatting disaster. It is so disheartening when that sort of thing happens. Are you sure you said "bother"? ;-)

    The scarf is lovely. The tatting proves you are human like the rest of us -- to our own aggravation!

    <3 Linda R

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