Fall is my favorite season, hands down, but if spring in New England had more days like today, where the sapphire hue of the sky is more September than April, and a slight breeze is stirring the bloom-laden branches of the weeping cherries...plus, I realized that very young leaves range in color from yellow to chartreuse to burgundy, which is not so different from...the range of leaf colors in the fall! A detail I probably should have noted at some point during the last several decades I've spent on the planet, but hey. Better late than never.
Also BLTN: this photo of a rejected Chinese Lace sleeve prototype. I knit it weeks ago and tossed it in a pile with all my other Chinese Lace flotsam; I'm surprised by how intriguing it appears in the picture, but trust me, it's not so good on the arm. I tried an eyelet rib to transition between the lace and stockinette, and then I tried making all of the sleeve increases just above the rib, to give the sleeve a full shape above the elbow--well, I think that look works better with a handkerchief-weight cotton or linen, or an organza, than with knitted fabric. Also visible is the decreases I tried working into the lace pattern (the panel that comes to a point just left of center) to create a bell shaped cuff. Not terrible, but I can do better; in fact, I'm thinking that if I can really do the decreases nicely, Chinese Lace would make a cool hat.
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