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So, the scarf I mentioned yesterday? It’s the Artic Lace Stole from Dona Druchunas’s Artic Lace, excerpted in the Winter 2006 Interweave Knits (sorry, no pictures of mine right now - I’m not sure my camera is, and I’m not up for digging it up ad then uploading the picture and linking it and blah blah blah).  I’m knitting it from some gorgeous brown alpaca fingering weight I bought at the Kansas State Fair when I was there in 2006 judging 4-H robotics. (Huh.  That’s a sentence I’d never have imagined writing five years ago.) I’m only doing three repeats of the pattern, width-wise, and I’m just beginning the fifth repeat of the pattern, length-wise.  If I stick to the pattern, I’ve got less than 100 rows to go (woo!).

I really like the pattern, and while I haven’t memorized it, I’ve got it down enough that I only have to check the chart at the beginning of the row and then I can do it without looking back too much.  For my first charted lace project (first lace project at all, really), I think that’s pretty good.

Anyway, between yesterday’s kitting at the cafe and the knitting I did today while we watched movies and some old tv shows, I finished an entire pattern repeat.  I’m considering doing one more repeat than the pattern calls for, as I want to have plenty of room to wrap it around my neck and/or head in the cold. I don’t know - I guess I should measure it now or something.  Of course, it’ll grow after I block it, but as I’ve never done that before, I have no earthly idea just how much it’ll grow.  Nevertheless, I want to err on the longer side of things.

Eh, maybe nevermind.  I just tried it on, and it’s approaching long enough as it is, so with the length I’ll gain in the next (last) pattern repeat plus the finishing rows, and the unknown length I’ll gain in blocking, it should be plenty long enough.  Woo!  There’s an FO on my knitting horizon!