Hey! Guess what I finished that has nothing whatsoever to do with fair isle knitting? It's the rose leaf curtain design from "The First Book of Modern Lace Knitting" by Marianne Kinzel.
You want to know something about Ms Kinzel? She had a lot of blocking pins. A lot. I have a lot of blocking pins, and I can't keep up with her outrageous blocking pin demands. Thank heavens I have wires. And a generally lackadaisical attitude towards pointy picots.
Overall, I am pleased with this. I can't believe that I can generate a whole curtain from a single ball (actually, a little less) of DMC. That's unreal. I'm not used to using cotton, but I think I could get used to it, if that's normal. I find myself thinking of places we might be better off having a doily-ish object. This is silly. I'm not a doily-keeper and my house doesn't lend itself to doily-keeperage. But, now I'm thinking of the next thing and it might just be ... a doily!
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