I am a member in this Forum and we had a Mystery KAL all through December. As anybody who knows me would expect, I was first intrigued but didn't like the idea of a time-table (doesn't go well with my inner chaos... ;) ). So I did think about it for a while and than made a late start on the second Sunday in Advent, thus abandoning all hope of finishing my hubbies socks in time for christmas.
I love starting new projects, so I was real energetic at first and knit like 4 inches in the first two days, but then I found that I had made a grave mistake in the first inch, that I knit, so I ripped it all out and didn't like the project anymore. But then on Christmas Day I thought of a real dear friend of mine, who had to spend Christmas in hospital because she is very weak, suffering from ovarian cancer and chemotherapy. And I remembered that I had read somewhere about prayer-shawls. So I decided to do a prayer-shawl for her and restarted the abandoned KAL project on the exact date it should have been finished... The wool is a very soft, gorgeous hand-dyed Filigran lace yarn by Atelier Zitron, dyed by Helgard. I loved the way the colours changed and I really liked the pattern, but I must admit, that I am completely head over heels in love with the result of blocking lace, it does even more wonders to a piece of lace than everybody says. A real ugly duckling transformation on something that didn't really look ugly to begin with:
This will definitely not be my last lace-knitting project.
