Aug 5: Waiting for Lorna’s Laces to arrive so I can start Amy’s Koyo, until then going to drive myself insane with sticky, fluffy, thinner-than-dental-floss mohair. Let the good times roll? O_o
Oct 14: Finished at last! Phew, that took a while. I found the lace repeats difficult to get into a rhythm with, since there seemed to be no logic to the repeats. I was working with the written instructions, not the charts, so perhaps that was part of the problem, not sure.
Was stumped when I got to Part 2, had a complete mental block about the short rows. Still not sure how I managed to follow the instructions to pick up 164, yet only had 128 when I cast off. Hmm. Would have liked a little diagram showing how the back and forth of the short rows worked with the completed lace crescent, for clarity and confidence.
Used about 270 yards of laceweight mohair/silk blend, doing full set of repeats with no mods. Very lovely finished product, though small, but I don’t know if I would tackle this a second time. Have not blocked it yet, unsure whether blocking will ruin the nice 3D effect of the leaves.
Audiobook: Listened to Ian Carmichael read Dorothy L. Sayers’ “Whose Body?” while knitting this but was too distracted by the lace to listen properly, so did most of it silently.
