What is it that makes a wedding turn intelligent young women momentarily into roiling pots of emotion and practical mothers into snaggle tooth vipers? If I were to choose an actress to play my role as mother of the bride, it would be Shirley MacLaine. I know all the dynamics, so why did I think I was immune? Nobody escapes the clutches of impending marriage emotions. Thank goodness those moments were fleeting ones. Seriously, it’s been a wonderful week with the bride-to-be, wouldn’t have missed a minute of it! 28 sleeps to go until the big day.
Met with my first stumbling block on the Amazing Lace. Consider this:
1. I learned to read charts in my first Fair Isle Class. We were taught to read them right to left.
2. I graduated to Charlotte’s Web where the chart is only pictured to the centre stitch. When you reached it, you knit back the other way, mirroring the first half.
3. I made the presumption that the Shoalwater Shawl was read the same way. Not. After finishing two sections I realized that I was one stitch off in my lace patterning. The chart looked similar to Charlotte’s Web, but when you hit the middle stitch on this one, you don’t knit back, you repeat the row.
Knit and learn.
Finally, challenge #2 for the Amazing Lace. Pay no attention to my the minivan in the background:
Life's a Stitch 
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