No work for me on Friday. Drove up to Minneapolis for a seminar on Powerful Communication for Women! The speaker was great, and she was indeed modeling Powerful Communication, but some of the information was off track for a small, family-owned company like the one I work for. In our company, the managers do support the supervisors, they do notice your progress in your department from week to week, and they do reflect your good work in the annual raise. In turn, as a supervisor, I also support my reportees, I notice their progress from week to week, and I recommend them specifically (or not) for annual pay rewards. If my reportees started drowning me in paper and emails to remind me of their good work (for visibility's sake), I would be surprised and annoyed. If they also cc: 'd MY supervisor on all that email, just to make sure everyone noticed them, I would be gravely offended. And MY supervisor would be annoyed. But mostly it was good.
That left a long, happy weekend ahead in my favorite hotel (that I can afford) in Minneapolis! Room Service! Knitting! Has anyone else noticed what great chaise lounges they have at the Hilton Garden Inns?
I am de-stashing. I have some lovely Paradiso in blue/green/white cotton in a fingering weight. It is fussy, busy yarn. It's a strand of each color cotton (not really a ply) and this colorful cotton sausage is encased in black netting. It's not Paton's Paradiso, it's Zitron's. Anyway, I found a lace pattern in "Gathering of Lace" that is the essence of casual knitting: What yarn to use? Any you have. What gauge? No one cares. Just find a needle that makes what you like in terms of body density and size of holes. How much yarn do you need? As much as you've got! Follow the increase pattern until you've used up about half your yarn and then start decreasing.
I love that kind of a pattern! My only problem is the needle size. This yarn is BUSY BUSY BUSY color-wise and in order for anyone to be able to tell I bothered to make lace with it, I will need BIG HONKING HOLES (BHH). Size 9 gives BHH, but the body looks messy and out of gauge. Size 8 also has BHH, and body improving. A real possibility. Will also swatch 7 and 6, but with less hope.
I brought all manner of knitting necessities in my lovely project bag from last years TKGA's conference (did I tell you my smart mom got all her conference teachers to sign her bag? not me...) but I managed to forget my lace pattern. So, I made up something similar. Sometimes, you just have to get ON with it.
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