4/29
Started this a month ago before school well and truly consumed my life. But now that the semester’s over, I’m going to start working on it double time to get done for my mom’s birthday in June!

5/26/15
I’m about one lace repeat past the sleeve divide which is about X inches (unwashed unblocked). I hope to get at least another repeat done today and hopefully finish the body and start on the arms before May is done. Then I’ll be right on schedule!

6/10/15
I was so on schedule, I finished just in time to bind off, snip some yarn and bundle it up into a gift bag! Eventually I’ll actually make everything in time, blocked and dried, wrapped in pretty paper. This birthday was not it though. I was an awful daughter and had to take back my mother’s gift so that I could give it a good soak and block the lace out. But she loved it!

Specs:
I did a 2 stitch I-cord bind off on the bottom and a 3 stitch bind off on the sleeves, then stitched the gap together. I thought it turned out really well!

The pattern is easy enough to follow. I have this weird mental roadblock with lace patterns that I double guess myself until I end up rage frogging it back to a certain point and redoing it. I would consider making myself one.

I used up, for all intents and purposes, all the yarn I bought. I was left with less than half a ball of yarn, which is the closest I’ve ever been to having the exact amount of yarn for a project.

The yarn held up fine as long as my hands weren’t sweaty or it wasn’t humid outside. Then it would shed something fierce. It was significantly softer and much more pleasant than my experience with Cotlin and I’m putting it down to not enjoying the linen content in that line. The color was super hard to capture correctly. It’s like a brilliant robins egg blue/turquoise, definitely not the cookie monster blue that it kept wanting to revert to in my pictures.