Another reason to love Kentucky
Aside from the Bluegrass...
The kitchener across the toes is flawless, the heels join seamlessly, the cast on cuff is so perfectly tensioned it feels like the rest of the fabric. The hand painted yarn didn't pool. The tidy rows of lace are so nicely elastic and really move with my feet.
Splendid.
I finally blocked the Leaf Lace and I'm happy with how it turned out. I don't think I'll make lace in 100% Alpaca again. It's already threatening to unblock itself and return to the lumpy pile it was.
Blocking, by the way, is a little like flat ironing.
You begin with something fresh off the needles.
Soak it down with a super-high quality wool wash and warm water.
Pin it out until it pulls taught like the head of a drum.
The fiber relaxes, the piece grows and the stitches stand sharply apart from each other.
The book is good. It's called "Hammer and Hoe" and it's a through and sympathetic but unflinching analysis of the work, ideas, and impact of communists who organized in Alabama during the Great Depression.
This is going to be much bigger...
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