Today I finally finished Cherie Amour.

I made one change to this pattern. For a start, I used a much simpler lace pattern which didn’t alter the overall affect much, and wasn’t too hard to do the math for.

I also used some Bendigo Classic 12ply from the back room. This was a bad decision and the source of some dissatisfaction with the finished piece. Bendy yarn usually comes in big 200 g balls. These were smaller, so I ended up with plenty of ends to sew in. Sewing in ends on lace garments is hard – well hard to do it neatly and invisibly. And because the yarn is machine washable and cable construction, I couldn’t spit splice and the ends feel like they’re going to work their way out again.

By the end of knitting this I was really wishing I’d chosen a nicer yarn to knit the pattern in. The irony is, of course, the yarn came first, and I chose the pattern for it. Badly. I should have just woven it into a lap rug or something. In fact, I’m going to donate the leftovers to an op shop, because I don’t want to keep it enough to lug it around in my suitcase.

On the other hand, I’m really pleased with how these are coming out:

The pattern is the No Purl Monkeys, which is more an idea to adapt the Monkey sock pattern on Knitty by simply changing the purls to knit stitches.