Poor Little No-Name

Harry danced in the door the other day, his propeller beanie twirling madly and a smirk on his face. He tossed his new masterpiece onto my lap, instructing me to post the photos and heap on some praise for his knitting, creativity, and utterly magnetic personality.

While I am obeying his first order, I shall leave the praise to the readers of this blog. Until he returns the skein of cashmere/alpaca/silk snatched from my hands before I had even finished unwrapping it, I refuse to say anything nice about him, his knitting, or his magnetically repelling personality.

Flipping though his raspberry smoothie-spattered notes, I see that this design is called Copritavolo (tablecloth) and appears on page 14 Lavori Artistici a Calza #5. Harry used #4 needles and the carefully hoarded Vermilion Malabrigo lace yarn that I had forbidden him to touch.

The directions called for doubling the outer leaves in alternate sections, but Harry doubled them in all the repeats--he says it makes the design looks more fluid and, much as I hate to be seen agreeing with him, I think he definitely has a point.

The piece is reminiscent of the swoon-worthy Lyra, but with less mesh and plain stockinette flowers instead of twisted stitches. It's a speedy knit, actually--he finished the 140 row-pattern in a little over two weeks. Of course, he does have eight arms...

Harry must have adored the Malabrigo lace yarn, seeing as how an order form order for 100 skeins of the stuff in various colors is clipped to the front of his notes. Oh wait! Here's a match! Here's a pile of ashes that used to be an order form! Here's a spider web coated with order-form ashes! And here's a Really Annoyed Giant Spider waving eight lethally sharp objects!

I guess I shall post the remaining photos and leave him to sulk, surrounded by Ninja Stars, RPG, and flamethrower.