It's a warm spring Sunday night and I'm feeling good. Dan and I had pho with Dare for dinner and it was good.
Here is some more on my trip to Mountain View. When we first got there I gave Evva (number 1 sister) her birthday present, a nice beaded necklace that I blogged previously. She gave me some very fine snow white lace weight yarn, 1700 yards in a skein. Number 2 sister, Heather's son is getting married 10-10-10, so I began to think about a lace bridal shawl for Shannon, his bride.
The first morning we had breakfast at Hobee's. Its a great little omelet place. They make a great home-made coffee cake. Full of fruit and fluffy light. It's great.
You may notice I am still a blond. Wait until we get to that part......
After that we went to the Lace Museum. It was really great, definitely worth a stop if you are in Sunnyvale, www.thelacemuseum.org. Right now they are showing wonderful lace undergarments from the 19th century and older, very nice lace indeed. I researched in their collection of great books and decided which Lace pattern to use. So I decided on a Baltic pattern stitch, rows and rows of Lily of the Vally, oodles of nupps, for Shannon's bridal shawl. Her colors are violet and plum, so I was thinking of some beads in those colors for the edge.
I love the lace Museum. I bought some great buttons from their button drawer. I also had an amazing discussion about nupps with another lace knitter. What a place!
Then we went up the way to Purlescence, a great LYS in the same mall as the Lace Museum. Awesome place. I got some size 4 Addi lace needles, a circ actually, still thinking of bridal lace. www.purlescenceyarns.com Great place and great needles with long, slim, sharp tips, perfect for lace and pointy enough to feature prominently in a murder mystery.
My fingers were itching, so I cast on 251 stitches and started in. Plunge into the nupp pool. Later when It gets a bit further along I'll post a pic. Right now it is only a few inches in. Lots of tiny stitches. Lots of tiny Plum beads for the edging. More on this later.
Notice Evva has her birthday necklace on and I am wearing the hat I knit in the northward train, deep furry cuff and beads in the top lace.
Lilo sez, goodnight.
Tata,
Julie
happy
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