Where did the time go?

It's quite apparent that I am not cut out to be a regular blogger. More than a month since last I posted -- closer to two!

But I have been busy, and Dem Fischer is now finished. She's been blocked once, but not satisfactorily -- it was hard for me to figure out exactly how I wanted it shaped, and all that wet wool was not terribly co-operative. Now that the lace has been semi-blocked, I have great plans to repin it into the shape I want and like, and then dampen it to make it change its mind. Now, if I could only find the time and the inclination at the same time!

I started working on Mystic Earth. I love Anna's patterns, but this one isn't calling my name very loudly and so I've put it aside. And then, as I was browsing Ravelry for a lace shawl pattern to work on I discovered the DaVinci Shawl -- two days before the riddles disappeared, and my opportunity to start immediately with it.

With a lot of help from the Ravelry DV crew I found the answers to the riddles -- what a wonderful idea, post a url and when the asterisks are replaced by the right answer a part of the pattern in pdf form appears. And so Mystic Earth will sit, while I work on DaVinci -- I'm on Chart 4 and really enjoying the knitting. No photos so far ... time has been short lately and so the knitting has taken priority! Wonderful design Anja has provided ... and having visited her site I am quite certain that even more of her designs lie in my future. That is -- if I can just find the time!

Oh, and that would probably be after Mystic Ice .... Anna's looks lovely (what is visible so far), and I have my yarn on order. So I must get back to DaVinci! I really must ... even if socks languish ...