Whatever Lola Knits

you guys this is it

i finished the stole.

at 3am, I put the last blocking pin in to hold the wires straight.  four hours later, i am up for work and it is already dry so guess what!!!!  I AM WEARING THE DAMNED THING TO WORK.  before I take it to the auction organizer and abandon it for fundraising glory.  I've given myself a $300 budget to buy it back from the auction.  please please pray for me that it does not cost more than that, I do not have time to sell a kidney.

it's the only thing that I've knitted for THREE MONTHS.  with fingering weight yarn and size three needles and a lace pattern that is 74 rows long in each repeat.  and I did five repeats.  plus eleven
rows on each end for a border.  I *may* have fudged towards the end, at 2:30 in the morning, when I realized that my photocopied and enlarged pattern had cut off 7 of the final eleven rows--that's when I said fuck it and just threw on the garter stitch/eyelet border.  for whatever reason, the borders in the pattern aren't written to be identical, so I don't feel bad about it.  My hands and arms, however, may never be useful again.  I swore several times last night (around 11:30 p.m., when I should have been going to bed, and around 2:45 a.m., when I realized how much today was going to kill me--my eyes are a glowing, burning red, thankyouverymuch) that I may never knit another stitch...but the reality is that whatever I knit next is going to be:

1) small in size
2) big in needles
3) entirely for myself.

pictures tonight when I'm home from work.

Ass-Kissing Scarf

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Originally uploaded by littlecabbage.

I knitted this 3-hour chunky scarf for my interim manager, who made me feel terrible for not buying him a gift set from Kiehl's. (That's what I got my four coworkers and my new manager.) Rowan Chunky in a marled black and gray on size 15 needles, two skeins was just enough for a nice, thick 2x2 ribbed scarf.

(thx to Heather for taking this photo when she was home for the holidays!)