2012-11-05
Opted not to do the border because of ALL THE KNITTING. Blocked it to test whether I liked it and it’s beautiful as is, so: done!

2012-04-01
Body of shawl done (after 19 tiers). NOT an April Fool’s joke. Now I just need a size 3 needle long enough to handle the border….

2012-03-22
Done with Tier 18. One more tier and then the border.

2011-11-10
Two squares into Tier 16.

2011-10-27
1 more square to go in Tier 15. Despaired at finding extra yarn in like color way, and put stole aside for a bit. Am now back to work and with a solution: knit tiers until I run out of current (last) skein, block stole for wear and then use mohair/silk for edging when I get around to it. Motivation, I haz u once more.

2011-05-26

Starting Tier 15. Will still definitely need extra yarn to do border, but may end at Tier 16 or 17 because it’s already reached wingspan length on me.

2011-01-30

Almost done with Tier 10. Now that I know how much ease the m5 needs, I’m doing the nupps without the extra needle. They go much faster and are far easier to carry out as a result. HOWEVER, still have not purchased extra yarn. May run out soon.

2010-12-30

First square of Tier 7. Have Stockholm Syndrome relationship with nupps, perhaps because patterning of stole is finally visible. Looks like garment instead of random collection of string tied in messy knots.

2010-12-24

First square of tier 5. Am thinking I may run short of yarn. May need another 1/2 skein. Must go on hunt now, especially given hand-dyed variability of Handmaiden Sea Silk.

2010-12-12
End of Tier 3. Have memorized Fern lace. Still hate nupps. Project status beginning to sound like joke cat diary (“day 37: have learned secret of mind control over dog. Still prisoner.”)

2010-12-09
Tier 1 complete, halfway through Tier 2, but I decided to start with the Lily of the Valley panel, so I’m using the pattern from Tier 5 as my base. I wanted to know if the nupps would drive me crazy (they do) enough to make me not want to knit the whole thing (they don’t). The trick has been to hold a size 1 super-short sock needle (from Lantern Moon’s adorable sock-needle kits) with the size 3 needle only for the m5 stitches on the RS rows of the LV chart and then slide the RH needle into the gap between the size 3 needle and the size 1 needle on the WS p5tog stitches. The first chart doing this was a pain, but now I’ve gotten the trick to holding two needles together down (use thumb to keep them from rotating), and now it’s fairly fast going.

2010-12-03

Realized I am bad at math. No, that’s not right. I’m perfectly good at math, just inattentive in the face of the heady fumes of a new project. Ripped out, cast on 100 sts. Will still do knit-on lace border.

Also realized seed st looks messy in Sea Silk so am doing edge triangles in stockinette and hoping that this doesn’t screw up the proportions of the edge triangles.

2010-11-29

Cast on 121 sts, did 1 row of seed st and then started base triangles. Will do knit-on lace border rather than seed stitch border.