Mysterious Swan Lake unveiled

Here are a few pics of my MS3, completed. Mine is a less-delicate version than many I've seen, with my relatively-sturdy, lofty Shetland laceweight, which means it is warm. no beads for me, as I thought they'd irritate and not go with my yarn, and I'm pleased about that decision too. Looks way better on the boady than on the floor! Quite balanced, whereas near the end of knititng the wing I was rather hating the abrupt transition between the straight part of the stole and the wing.

Looking forward to my next lace project!

Here

The feathers blocking and draped...

**de-stash**

I'm sorting through my stash with a view to sorting myself out for Australia - make me an offer by email if you'd be interested in either of these.

1 Colinette Lasso Velvet Leaf
100% polyamide
tension 10 cm: 19 sts to 28 rows
Comes in 100g hanks
205 metres per hank
needles_4mm

(I've wound these into centre-pull cakes, but used none)

2 Hipknits Aran Silk in Citrus

500g

180m/100g

Bee Fields Stole

Fyberspates silk lace toffee chocolate, originally uploaded by GinnyUK.

This is an Anne Hanson of Knitspot design - in some ways I like the Bee Fields triangular Shawl better (I think the panels with the strips of bees and the otehr pattern between are preferable on that) but I'm not a great triangular shawl person - also can't bear those long rows!

The yarn is wonderful Chocolate Toffee from Jen at Fyberspates - and most delightful it is! Jen has *very* good customer service - she sent me 2 skeins that had conned her they were dry (silk will do this) but were in fatc just very slightly damp. by the time they arrived here they stank most awfully. I tried just drying them - no good - and ended up washing them several times, which spoilt the lustre quite a bit. I let her know - she said 'snap' the yarn and the sheen will return - and I think it is getting better! However, she also sent me two more skeins. The match is pretty good (I thought I'd lost lots of colour from the 2 I'd washed, but not so!)
And doesn't it have a honeyed look? Perfect for this bumble bee broth?

By the way - if you wonder why the yarn looks good - it's because I realised I have a perfect light box. It's the bath! There is a long window next to the bath, but it faces another building and north-ish, so almost never any direct sun,but very light. And the bath itself is white but slightly matt. What d'you think - better?

Secret of Chrysopolis

malabrigo verde adriana 117, originally uploaded by GinnyUK.

This is the LOVELY malabrigo laceweight I'm going to use - more or less Uru-wolle, as it is 400m in 50g and from Uruguay, just like the Uru.
Mum bought some bricky dark yarn to do the same secret stole by Moni. Should be fun!

A Wing'd Mystery

Here's the end of clue 5 - like a knitted on edging, we are forming a wing.
I would prefer it if there were a greater link between the first 4 clues and this one - but I am hopeful that there will be more linkage in terms of sitch pattern and arrangement in the last 2 clues. Perhaps more wing of swan as a knitted on edging with feathers off it? I'm one of those hoping agin hope for no frills!

I have a close-up pic, but blogger is declining - this is my first time using it on my new Mac using Camino as a web browser- mostly seems more successful than Safari, but.....

I worked it out! See above.

The Tale of a Swallow

Here's my swallowtail, completed and blocking on my new heirloom-knitting wires. They make it

so much easier!

Jaeger (sadly finishing) discontinued 4ply silk - the same yarn, different colourway, as Tuscany. The colour is closest in the first picture, above, it's a very pale silvery grey. I now have 1.5 balls of each colour left, and I'm not sure what I'll use them for.

Knit with Addi lace needles, 3.5mm. Lovely!