Lace edging

I have finished the main body of Rumpelstiltskin and have moved right along to the lace edging.

Rumpelstiltskin 6-6-07 

As with most lace edgings I have experienced, beginning this one has given me a feeling of utter and absolute despair.  It’s one hell of a long way around this shawl, and I in my infinite wisdom made the shawl even a little bigger than the pattern called for.  Why couldn’t I have left well enough alone?  Why, WHY, WHY?

And yet, there is absolutely nothing to do but push forward, in the hope that somehow I will be able to finish this project by June 20, the day I leave for California and my sister’s wedding.  Hah!  I should live so long!

Rumpelstiltskin 6-6-07

(In case you’re wondering, the pink yarn above is just the crochet cast-on, which will be removed once I have circumnavigated the entire shawl and the live stitches will be grafted to the invisible cast-on loops.) 

OH MY GOD.  Let me just stick a pin in my eye right now.  This is way, way worse than the I-cord edging on Nicola, which some of you may remember.

Since I’ll be spending so much time sitting there (knitting, doncha know) over the next couple of weeks, Harvey and I picked out some new pillows for the couch.

new couch pillows

These came from Tuesday Morning, as do many good things that end up in my house.  Well, except the ones that I score from garage sales.  Anyway, aren’t they pretty?  We’re going for kind of a soft, muted look.

OK.  Going back to that edging now.

Brace up, little friend.

5 Responses to “Lace edging”

  1. Deb Says:

    Holy Macaroni! That is one wide, wide edging.
    Love the pillows.

  2. MonicaPDX Says:

    Yep, gorgeous pillows. And I think we’d better get the pompoms out. Knit! Knit! Knit!

    Or something. I never was a cheerleader. 😉 But you can do it!

  3. Ellen Says:

    I love the pillows, but that edging! Are you really going to try to finish it by the 20th?

    I just want to put this out there: you will also have the morning of the 21st, if push comes to shove. You can knit while you are accompanying me to my hair appointment, although you will have to drive us back to the hotel once they’ve affixed the veil, so no knitting then. (I count myself out as a driver post-veil-affixing because I don’t think it’s safe to drive wearing a veil, do you? It could blow up over your face at any moment, obscuring your ability to see!)

  4. Ruth Spears Says:

    You make me think of a time when my daughter was about 12 and had hidden her math workbook (which has a zillion problems in it) which she was supposed to have finished by the end of the school year. So, there she was, the last weekend before the end of school and she HAD to finish all those problems. She sat at the kitchen table and worked on them – and counted how many she had left. She counted them so often she could have been done! Don’t make the same mistake – just keep knitting and you’ll be done before you know it!!

    Beautiful job, by the way.

  5. Shelda Says:

    That’s one wide edging you’ve got there, m’dear. Hope you can get there from here!