lace, lace, and more lace

We visited our families last weekend, got to love those three day weekends! We had a pretty good visit with our families. Saturday evening we had a very good dinner at my mother-in-laws house, and then my hubby when fishing with his younger brother. They seem to have had a good time, and even cought some fish!

My mom and I spent part of the weekend showing off our lace yarn we both had ordered from Knit Picks. Knit Picks has such pretty colors in their yarn. Makes you want to order a couple of each. We ended up swapping three hanks of yarn. My Hot Rod Heather for her Jewels Heather. It turns out that mom already had a few hanks of the Jewels heather and did not need the extra three hanks. So I lucked out! The Jewels heather is so pretty!

Mom also had the book Arctic Lace from the library to look through. While most of the content in the book is about the history of lace knitting from the Arctic area, there are a few patterns in the book that are very pretty. I have one hank of the Jewels Heather that is going to be a Mobius wrap, and the other two hanks are going to be a shawl from my Wrapped in Comfort book.

I'm about half way done on my Bigfoot shawl. I'm not going to post any pictures just yet, I want to make one big post with pictures from beginning to end. But I will say that the shawl is coming along very well. It's going to turn out really pretty in the Oregon Coast Heather yarn. And that's all you get on that for now!

We're gearing up for the Season of Lace competition. I've been rolling yarn and planning patterns it's been very exciting. Well, the rolling of the yarn probably isn't all that exciting when you get right down to it. I just really enjoy the planning phase. I guess it comes from working as a project manager. I like to lay things out and plan in advance for events. I'm working on writing up every lace project that I want to tackle for the competition and assign a yarn to it so I'll have everything ready and won't have to waste time wondering what I am going to do next and then go back and forth on what yarn to use. But, I always reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute!

Next week I'll be placing my large knit picks order to get the rest of my lace yarn in. I have what I need to start out in three weeks. But I want to make sure I have more than enough to get me through the competition.

That's all for now. Until next time!

~Happy Knitting~