Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:06AM FO: Orange Slice
When I'm working on a secret project (generally a gift), I don't let myself blog. I'm afraid - no, convinced - that I will spill the beans too early. So please excuse my absence - I'll show you the latest secret project later this week, since I was able to gift it over the weekend.
In the meantime, let's take a look at the shawl that literally colored my life for a few weeks:
I loved Citron from the first moment I saw it on Ravelry, and I had this orange yarn from handpaintedyarn.com lying around. It was a perfect match, so I cast on my three little stitches and started. Six weeks later, I cast off more than 1,000 stitches and was left with orange hands, an orange pantry door, an orange couch, orange light switches, and a very orange bathtub. Bleed much? Oxiclean got the dye off the couch, but the shawl-shaped pattern in the bathtub had to be scrubbed out with Bon Ami. (Let's not even talk about how long it took me to figure out why everything I touched turned orange). I ended up soaking it twice and then soaked it an additional time with vinegar, and that finally did the trick.
My shawl is quite a bit bigger than the one in the pattern. I ended up doing eight repeats, so it's much, much more shawl than kerchief.
I love the ruffled parts, even though they were such long rows, and the ruffle at the bottom is so sweet. I thought about beading the bind-off, but I was ready to be finished and didn't feel like fiddling with tiny beads and an itty-bitty crochet hook. I do have my limits.
Reader Comments (2)
I <3 citron and your turned out lovely!!! It is on my list to cast on as well. I have some malabrigo lace in teal for just that purpose. Hopefully it won't have any of the issues you've been dealing with, though...
I want to make Citron, too! I hope mine looks as good as yours when I'm done. I think I'll skip the bleeding, though. What a potential disaster! Glad you've got good friends (yuk yuk yuk) to help with the cleaning.