With Mother’s Day and a slew of birthdays around the corner, I needed some fun but quick gifts. Enter the lace bookmark as a perfect solution: it knits up in about an hour (if you do it distractedly during a movie, as I did), uses up the bits of odd-and-end yarn that float at the bottom of stashes everywhere (especially the dainty fancy bits that are just too nice to throw out, as I keep telling myself). I made one and it was just so incredibly gratifying…. and I had so many more nice bits of yarn… that it turned into a full-blown pattern.