The Tilsons

Finally I have done it folks!  I have completed the Laminaria Star Chart. See the little stars in my knitting in the photo?  I didn’t have those the first two times…  The first two times it was like lines with bunches.  I’ve got it now though.  I am the MASTER OF THE STAR CHART!  Woa.

I realize just why knitting lace is so addictive.  It appeals to the strong inner perfectionist I harbour - when I knit lace, and I end on the right stitch on the right line of a chart, I know that my knitting thus far is actually perfect. PERFECT.  There can be no mistakes if I end on the right stitch.  I feel when I have accomplished this, as I have with the finishing of the star chart, that I have cheated someone out of making me skrew up. That sounds terrible, but I make mistakes so often, that it feels like there are little knitting pixies out there making my attention stray, or that stitch slip off my needle. Let’s add “satisfying” to lace knitting qualities.  Nothing like sticking it to the knitting pixies.

And now that I have jinxed my knitting forever - permanently etched my name on the pixies Knitter’s Blacklist, I’m going to go and try my hand at felting.  Hah!  Wreck my felting!  I dare you!