Over the last couple weeks I finished my oldest knitting WIP. Isn't it strange how some things have to linger for years until they finally grip you and you just breeze through? This is what happend with "Linda", a kit for a lace scarf I bought in 2016 from GemachtMitLiebe, a designer sadly no longer with us.
This very simple, straight forward lace pattern caught my attention back when I was pretty much a knitting beginner, and even though it's an easy repeat, I struggled with it a bit. I could do it, but it needed my full attention, which is not the best combination when you need to do hundreds and hundreds of rows of a particular pattern! I think I got about 15cm into the scarf back then before it went away. Over the years, I picked it up a couple times, realizing it goes quickly once I focus on it for a while, but still, when I picked it back up in March, I only had about 30 cm done. But I wanted to make a birthday gift for a friend of my grandma's, whose favourite colour is blue, and while going through my stash, thinking what I could start, I came across this and thought this would be perfect.
So Linda became my focus knitting piece for the month, and suddenly, it moved along very quickly! I used 3 25g skeins of Lang Merino Lace 400, which is a beautiful share of blue and very, very soft, and last weekend managed to finish a scarf of very respectable length.
I think it was finally her time to shine, and am very happy to now have another finish that has been ten years in the making!
