Wedding Photos!

Here are some photos from the wedding...


The bride looking beautiful and wearing the Myrtle Leaf Shawl

And again....


And again - wasnt the weather lovely?

And there was plenty of alcohol! The shawl was admired by many, appreciated by the bride who had to stand in the shade for photos for quite some while, and it looked lovely and went really well with the dress. Well done kerrie for the dying and well done me for thinking of it in the first place!

Myrtle Leaf Pictures

So the Myrtle Leaf Shawl has been unpinned from the spare bed and taken for a little photo shot in the sun.

And here is the left over silk, including the fantastic green/turquoise/blue colourway that is being saved for another time. I fell so in love with it that I decided to make it into a shawl for me! I am going to make something for T at work with the left over cream/pink colour - she was coveting it when it arrived in the office.

Myrtle Leaf Finished and Blocking

Well........


We have a Myrtle Leaf Shawl!
















Round the corner....















Centre Panel......
















So we have a finished item, and it's huge. I really dont mind admiting that this was the catalyst for starting a blog - the knitting I think I am the most proud of.

Some Statistics:

needles - 4mm Addi Turbo Lace
yarn - Hipknits laceweight silk. Custom dyed to match my friends wedding dress. 2 skeins, with maybe only about 10m left.
pattern - Myrtle Leaf Shawl from Victorian Lace Today
alterations - I found the errata on the internet and they are very very important - there is a mistake in the chart that means the leaves dont join up! And I joined on fewer repeats of the edging along the top and bottom (doing every other attachment to 2 stitches rather than one)
cast on - 27th June
cast off - 18th July

I am super super exited about this shawl. It looks fantastic, the yarn is shiny and silky and a lovely lovely colour. The alteration to the pattern meant that a: I had enough yarn and b: the edging sits much more evenly along the top. I am going to make a lovely box at the weekend and parcel it up with nice tissue paper and then I will truely be done.

I just hope that J likes it - it is a surprise and will be presented to her next weekend at her hen do, hence the big rush. We live quite a way apart and so that is the only time I am going to see her before the big moment.

And the exitement, I got my first comment. Now that means someone is actually interested in my rambling.

The next plan......
I have 12 balls of white Jaeger Merino DK, which I am about to start swatching in the hope of making me a cardigan of some description!

First past the post

OK.... first post on my new blog. Any bets on how long it is going to last me?

Anyway, on to the knitting, which is probably going to be the main topic of discussion for a while. On the needles at the moment, and frantically trying to complete, is the myrtle leaf shawl from Victorian Lace Today, knitted with some lovely silk yarn from Kerrie at Hipknits.

I am loving knitting this - it is the first time I have knitted real lace, and it is very exiting. The silk yarn is treacherous though, drop one stitch and before you have blinked there is a great big run down a few rows. In the centre panel this wasnt too much bother really, I was going nice and slowly and so I only had one major whoopsie. The biggest catastrophe was that I dropped a stitch when knitting on the border round the top. And I was at least half way down the next side before I noticed and so I had to take a whole section of the border off, pick up the stitches, faff around with a tiny crochet hook trying to fix the mistake and then knit the border back. Dr Sweetpea (husband) kept trying to talk to me while this was going on and so that was rather stressful. Only a little bit more to go now though and I am there.

Pictures will follow soon.... I need to recapture the camera and take some!

Off to finish that border