There have been developments, both in the garden and in the knitting-basket. My Icarus is finished and there was enough yarn - just! I finished with about 3 meters left... Very good use of that yarn! Then it was blocking time.
I wet-block all things I knit and use my yoga-mats as blocking boards. A lace-shawl usually looks like a dish-rag before it is bocked and is a really disappointing result from all that knitting-work. Then some water and pins and the magic unfolds - like a magnolia opening up:
My Icarus, after the blocking.
I wet-block all things I knit and use my yoga-mats as blocking boards. A lace-shawl usually looks like a dish-rag before it is bocked and is a really disappointing result from all that knitting-work. Then some water and pins and the magic unfolds - like a magnolia opening up:
My Icarus, after the blocking.
