I like lace!

So the mamaship lurves her new shawl/scarf. "Something to cover the shoulders", she said, "when its chilly at the office". I think this has been accomplished.

So now I am free to move on to a new lace project and I already have. I started this little gem and I am captivated.

Sunday I started Eunny's Print O' The Wave Stole using the Malabrigo Lace in Cactus Flower that I just recently acquired. Right now I am in LOVE with the pattern, the yarn and the color. I wasn't so sure about how I would like the color variations when I first received the skeins but right now I am loving it. Its so light and soft and PINK! I wanted to make a very modern looking stole to wear and I instantly took to this pattern when I first saw it (lord knows how long ago that was) and to me it looks modern and the PINK color adds the extra umpf to it!

What I am not in love with is the mistake that I made.

Can you see it?

How about now?

That entire partial repeat has the same mistake. I don't know what I did. It almost looks like to me that the pattern got moved over a couple of stitches and then the entire repeat wasn't finished. I can't really figure it out so I kept moving on. I would have ripped back but I couldn't see the point since its not that noticeable plus I like the idea of an error in my lace, makes it more real to me that I actually made it.

BUT that doesn't mean I want more mistakes people! As a rule of thumb I do not like mistakes! If they happen so be it but if they can be prevented then by all means lets prevent them. So I have engineered a new method of reading my pattern...notecards!

They are in order by color and number because I am that messed up in the head. NO I just like it when colors are in the ROYGBIV order. This notecard method so far (just one repeat) has reduced my stress while knitting. My brain doesn't have to work as hard to find the beginning of my repeat each time. Now I just need to keep the cards in the proper order at all times, which isn't hard because of ROYGBIV!