Summer Lace: Dark Star

Finally my Dark Star stole is complete. This is one of the many lovely designs from BadCatDesigns.



My stole measures 173 cm by 102 cm (68"x40"). The yarn is Ripples Crafts Hand Dyed Yarn in Steely Blue. This is a luscious Alpaca/Silk/Cashmere lace weight yarn. A real pleasure to work with. Oh and the needle size, 3.0 mm circulars.



Its really hard to get the full impact of this stole without a willing model!





Now I need to spend some time on my Summer Squares blanket.

Dark Star woes?

Well not really woes but I'm knitting the deeper 18 stitch diamond beaded edging rather than the 5 stitch edging for my Dark Star stole and it feels like it is taking forever.



Here you can see the stitch markers I'm using. There are 50 stitches between each set of stitch markers and that represents 100 rows of edging. I love it when I can remove a stitch marker from the needle but gee it seems like a long time between markers!



I've turned one corner so far and I am getting very close to the next one.....