Walsall Wonderland

If one is to knit anything in lace, they need stitch markers. I want to knit up a lace pattern, and I’ve not got any, so I must remedy this… but how exactly?

Now, the obvious answer is to buy them, but that would be too easy! No, I want my own stitch markers, mostly because I can’t afford any knitting accessories right now. So, I took a look around, and there seems to be two general types of stitch markers. Both are usually beaded in some fashion, or have something pretty or cute dangling from it. One type seems to be made with meal loops, whilst the other seems to be some sort of fishing line or clear beading line. I have a bunch of beads and so forth, and I have some invisible thread, so I’m thinking of taking that route with my markers.

Of course, if I went to the effort of making these things up, then I’d have to go through with knitting up the shawl I’m thinking about, and that’s where I run into issues. Whenever I consider using the small stockpile of yarn I have for anything, I feel great trepidation. I wonder, is this the pattern, is this pattern good enough to warrant using what little yarn I have? I can see a pattern, and think it is the loveliest pattern, but as soon as contemplate using my yarn to make it, I become very critical of it. That is completely and utterly neurotic, I know, so I’m not being sucked into that any longer! I’m going to make my pretty stitch markers, and then I am going to cast on a very lovely shawl pattern.

I’m going to link to that pattern today, even though I may have in the past, but I want to share my first lace knitting experience here. Here is the Nightsongs shawl, a very pretty piece of work indeed!

P.S. Yeah, not sure if I will end up knitting it, actually.