Life's a Stitch

Hardly a lover of knitting or crochet would deny that their work is a labor of love…especially when it's one of those one step forward, two steps back type of project:

This is normally a two evening project, but I somehow lost my rhythm, considering I've previously made two of these without incident. And this was an abbreviated scarf-like version, only working through row 11.

Free Pattern: Crochet Lacy Wrap (Coats and Clark).

Yarn: Luxury Collection Baby Alpaca Sport 1.5 skeins, right up there on the softness scale with angora or cashmere.

Hook: 10mm, US size N

Thoughts: There will be more, I've found them to be much appreciated gifts.

The labors of friendship: not my work, I agreed to block this for a friend:

And at last knit night, having lost my way on my project above, I offered to weave in the ends on two of her projects. That way I could catch up with the others without doing the two steps backwards dance.

The problem with blocking someone else's project? I now need to make one for myself. It's another free pattern: Cassiope and it requires only one skein of sock yarn.