Channeling Morticia

Lately I have been in love with the idea of black lace. Something so classic and timeless. So Morticia Addams. This is the A Good Bias shrug from Interweave Knits Spring 2005. I saw the finished shrug worn my Michelle at the KIP that I go to sometimes, and it was fabulous! Michelle used the 1824 Cotton that the pattern specifies. Not being a cotton fan myself, I used 1824 Wool, purchased at close out from Arcadia Knitting. All that's left to be done is seaming the sleeves. The pattern is a little funny--you gain a stitch at the beginning and lose one at the end when you finish the row repeats--so compensations have to be made in row 1 of the next repeat. I'm not done with black lace--there's another little shawl on the needles. But wait, you might ask--shouldn't you be working on your book? The answer is--I am, but really can't show anything until my editor has seen it!
This weekend I went to the Renegade Craft Fair for about an hour between downpours. I was a vendor at the first show, with no sales. My sweaters are too high end for a show of this nature, I suppose. Also, most dogs at the show were fairly large, too large to wear the sweaters. This year it was two days, so the display needed to be taken down and stored overnight, which would have been a logistics nightmare, and with all the rain this past weekend, there was a lot of slogging around in mud to get to see all the vendors. After the last few outdoor experiences, I'm glad I didn't pursue participating in this show. I almost purchased some hand spun yarn, but all that was really left was white, and I don't feel like dying my own at the present, or the wrong weight for my projects. Really, I do have enough yarn to last Lucky Penny for years at this point.