6/6/17: And so, we start my first project in 100% silk. It was an ill-omened start, with a yarn-winding failure of first order, which resulted in a mass of tangled yarn and a very frustrated Lydy. I didn’t time it, but I estimate I spent 3 or 4 hours untangling and reballing. Be more careful!

I am going to be using Miyuki 8/0 Traingle Crystal AB beads, which are nicely sparkly.

The Process is in good order, and I had to restart 5 times. What is the problem with my brain? I do not know.

7/3/17: So, apparently, I’ve decided to send myself to hell. I decided that this would like nice with a sparkly edge, and that a beaded picot bind-off was just the thing. I hate beaded picot bind-offs. They take forever and a day. But here I am.

Ready for some bad math? So, there are 399 stitches. Each stitch turns into one picot with bead. Each picot takes me just about one minute. That’s 6.6 odd hours, right there. A fully loaded Fleegle beader holds 45 beads. That means that it has to be loaded just about 9 times, and each time takes approximately 4 minutes. So, we’re up over seven hours, assuming that nothing goes wrong… goes wrong… goes wrong. A generous estimate would be a total of eight hours for the bind-off. A simple bind-off would probably have taken less than one hour. So, this is hell nor am I out of it.

I decided on just four repeats for the final chart, instead of five. I’m not sure I was correct, it might be better proportioned with five. But the netting seemed to be sufficient, and man was I bored of chart three. So, four repetitions instead of five. Also, didn’t I say recently that I shouldn’t make shawls so large, as they are the very devil to block?