FO: River

Let me tell you, modelling a finished lace stole is way more difficult than it might appear. Where do you put it to get the best light, how do you drape it to maximum effect, how do I avoid taking pictures of my muffin-tops? Sweaters are way easier, throw it on, lean moodily against a wall and bam! FO-money-shot. Lace, not so much.

So I'm going to have to split this up into pattern and colour because on my own with my trusty self-timer I was only able to capture one or the other and usually in the presence of back-fat. Please excuse the rolls.

First texture:


Then colour:

Pattern: Lacy Wrap/River, available here for free :)
Needles & Yarn: 4mm Options. The sock/lace yarn was from My Special Tea on Ebay but it doesn't look like this colourway, Luminous Moth, nor this length (600yds) is available anymore (and on second look I think the store may have disappeared too....) The yarn has 20% nylon which means it was crunchy as hell to knit up and it bled dye onto my fingers, but a wash and a stretch has made is much softer. I think I ended up doing 27 or 28 repeats of the pattern with a small amount of yarn left over, which was probably a good thing because one more repeat and I wouldn't have been able to fit this sucker on my blocking board.

And just for fun, want to see the precarious positions I put myself in to get some of these pictures? Look away if you're scared of heights...

Oh yeah, that's the FDR 26 floors below with just a pane of glass between me and oblivion. EEP!

I think I might have been bitten by the lace bug, expect much more to come.