I made Lace!

So, I did get my pattern book about a week or so ago.....The cover picture was something I had been wanting to make for some time.

I ordered a cone of blue lace weight yarn from http://www.webs.com/, and then I decided to go to my L.Y.S., and found this lovely alpaca lace yarn in verigaited color of purple, by Misti Alpaca Hand Paints. I am not really a "pink" kind of girl, so I decided to use differnt colors, and I could not afford the Tahki Stacy Charles "Superior" lace weight yarn.

I have learned, that basicly any pattern can be fit to your liking just by making sure you use the correct weight of yarn called for in the pattern, and that you try your best to have the correct gauge.

I have to say I am very proud of me to get this done.

I have struggled with being to lazy to change colors, and frankly I have never acomplished a lace weight pattern other then a scarf.

All those stitches! I must be a very impatient crocheter! So all else said..... once I finished and after all the effort to get this project right, I had my honey buy me a peice of wood board from Home Depot to wet block the garment.

I have never wet blocked before. (yes I have cheated with a damp towel and my iron on the lowest setting over my garments) So of course after all my effort I had to buy some nice "soap" from the L.Y.S., and ran into this yummy stuff called "soak", smells so good I can not wait to put it on.

The funniest thing about the whole blocking process was that I must find something differnt to block my projects on for one, but also I ran out of pins, and found they were not working so well on the wood so I got out my hammer and nails! I was looking for any nail I could get my hands on to be sure to nail every single edge piece down, as called for to do in the pattern.

Not that I should mention but wine and stitches are a beautiful thing!

Also, the number one thing I have learned with crocheting is .... count your stitches! Do not get full of your self just because you got the first row or two correct. Count every stitch on every row! ( I know it is a pain).