First thing - I found and corrected an error in the Endless Knot Socks.  The mistake was in the decreases for the star toe and is now history :) The mistake, not the star toe…

Second, I finally finished the second sock.  I wouldn’t say that I have second sock syndrome exactly, but I have noticed that the second sock usually takes considerably longer to complete than the first one :) What can I tell you, I’m an ADHD knitter.  Once I’ve figured it out and executed the design, I’m bored with it.  Well, not always, but usually :)

I’m really tickled with these socks and expect to wear them often :)

I wrote about the Faun’s Eyes lace stitch pattern last week and I have to tell you - mastering the stitch has in no way lessened my obsession with it.  Sunday morning I got up with the image of it in my head and suddenly found myself thinking…

What if I combined this:

With this:





And maybe this?





Would that tell a story in a throw or blanket form - or at least create a setting, a picture?

I was pretty fired up but I had kind of lost the train of it by Sunday evening :( It bothered me that I couldn’t think of a way to make things fit together suitably.

And then, last night (I’m not actually sure, it could have been this morning by then!) I was looking through this:

One of the shawls therein contains a small chart for a lace evergreen type tree…

Now things begin to fall together!  I’ve got lace trees for a forest.  I’ve got lace fauns for residents.  Walker’s Gingerbread Castle is wonderful, but I bet I can devise something of my own that’s maybe a bit more delicate in construction? 

So now my head is teeming with numbers (how many stitches, how many repeats, etc...) and wondering about the mechanics of lace castle construction…

...and whether it needs a moat :)