Stairs: 3, Knitter: 0
In the ongoing battle between stairs and me, there has been another skirmish. Gentle Readers, do not worry, I did not need hospital treatment (this time). Last night, Meizlish and I were carrying dinner up the stairs when I tripped and fell upthe stairs. I scraped and wrenched my knee, elbow, and left wrist. The most embarassing thing (as if a 27 year-old woman with a skinned knee wasn’t bad enough) was that I fell on our food. Crunch. Luckily, flattened chicken strips still taste good even though the biscuits were goners.
My sprained left wrist has slowed down my knitting, so that I my speed has gone from tortoise to glacial. But I refuse to left that stop me and I cast on as I had planned. This is a swatch for the Voyager Lace Stole.
The yarn is Berroco Comfort DK. You may notice that I am knitting a lace pattern in a 50% acrylic, 50% nylon yarn. Usually this is not a wise idea because man-made fibers are notoriously difficult to block–a technique essential to lace knitting. I am going to attempt to “kill” the acrylic which is a method of steam blocking by which the acrylic loses its give and gains drape. Of course, I’m not sure whether or not this will work with Comfort due to the nylon content–hence the experimental swatch. Of course, I will post the results of the experiment here.
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