Here is a quick snapshot of the completed clue 3.
At the moment I’m just over halfway through clue 4, although I’m still thinking about lengthening the stole, so perhaps I have a bit more than half to go with the extra 80-some rows……
I’m very curious about the next clue. My current theme guess is for the four seasons. I think the first section looks like frost on windows – winter. The second section is the pouring spring rain. And the third section a flowering meadow.
I’m making lots of progress on the mystery stole, but have been lax when it comes to photographing it. At the moment I’m about halfway through clue 4…. so right “on track”, in other words. I’m still pondering whether or not to lengthen it. I’m leaning towards lengthening it, but since I haven’t knit lace before, I’m a little worried that it may become enormously long after blocking…. we’ll see.
In the meantime we have misplaced the camera. We hope to find it, well…. now would be great. But therefore I don’t even have a picture now. So I’ll share a cottage picture instead. Look at my lovely view while knitting the stole.
I’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to Istanbul. We’ve spent a week sightseeing, eating and shopping. Of course I was looking for both knitting needles and yarn. No luck on the yarn – the only store I found sold only acrylic yarn. I did find another store which claimed it sold silk yarn. However, upon inspection the silk turned out to be very polyester (plastic) string. I suppose that if you can’t tell the difference between silk yarn and polyester string you deserve what you get…..
Finding knitting needles in the maze of the bazaars in Istanbul turned out to be quite a challenge. I was directed to one store, but it turned out to be a wholesaler only. I guess I could have gotten quite a deal on a set of 50 identical needles, but I’m not sure what I would do with them.
Upon leaving the wholesaler, we did find another store that actually sold them separately. For 4 YTL (approx $3.20 CDN) I got one set of straight needles, one set of dpns and a bonus thimble.
I also acquired a pair of scissors to replace the ones in my knitting bag. The new ones (left) are actually sharp – quite a change from the kid scissors (right) I had before…. a relic from when I was in 3rd grade.
I managed to get some knitting done. Mostly on the plane and in the airports, but also on the ferry rides we took up the Bosphoros to the Black Sea (left), and to Heybeliada and Büyükada the Sea of Marmara. While I don’t have finished objects to show off, I was working on a pair of socks and the Mystery Stole.
I have joined the Mystery Stole 3 knitalong. The first clue was posted on Friday, and here it is. I am using Alpaca Sock Yarn (Ontario) from Hidden Touch in Osgoode. I’m very partial to using local yarn, as it turns out. Anyway, this yarn is 60% alpaca, 20% superwash merino and 20% nylon – 345 yds/100g. It’s a fair bit thicker than the suggested yarn, but I would rather have something resembling a shawl than a stole, so that’s why I chose this yarn.
I’m eagerly awaiting the next clue. The pattern so far is lovely. I’ve been reading the theme guesses, and my favourite guess so far is Ariadne & Theseus. I see waves around the edges.
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