Lace...

I've been thinking about knitting another "Gossamer Web - Orenburg style" shawl.  I wanted to do it just right so I'd put it off until I could find just the right wool for the job. 

My last was a triangular pattern I found in an Interweave Press mag from a few years back.  I knit it up with Crystal Palace lace weight in white.  It turned out beautiful...one an award at a state fair when I entered it that year.  It is one of my favorite pieces and I wear it often.  But that was a while ago...

At the beginning of this summer I finally found the perfect wool.  It is called Harmony by Jojo.  The colorway is blues and tan, very subtle varigation.  I am doing the Pine Tree Palatine Scarf from The Gossamer Webs design collection -- a small book that I bought years ago from Galina Khmeleva when I took her class. 

Its a lovely technique - all knitting stitches with the typical YO's and K2tog's to make the lace patterns.  I'll have to concentrate for sure, but I am looking forward to working it up.  It always seems to make sense the way the pattern comes together.  I would think that alot of knitting based on folk patterns are like that.  These amazing women knit them from their heads...passed the patterns on through generations...I like how that feels -- knitting something that an old russian grandma would have knit. 

I started the scarf over the weekend up north.  A perfect place to knit -- out on the porch by the lake.  It was wonderful.  Now that I am back home, I will have to have more discipline to work on it faithfully.  It is always harder to find quiet time around home.  If I get it, I worry about all the other things I should be doing.  Its tough being a responsible housewife and mother!