Here, you were supposed to get a picture of Jamie, all smiles,  holding up her lacy leaf scarf at the conclusion of "Introduction to Lace", a series of two workshops at Fresh Purls in Providence. I have to tell you that the most important thing I learned was not to lend my camera to a certain someone. He needs his own camera - not mom's -  to keep him occupied during family trips. My little fellow operates primarily on whim, and the spirit moved him to erase all the knitting photos. 

So today, I took a walk, feasted on some fall color, and made some more pictures.

                                Here's the lion's view of a downtown park in Providence, where the sun shone and the mercury rose so that everyone strolled coatless at midday.  

The pictures you do get - which you were going to get anyway - show the mock cable throw pattern from The Well-Knit Home. I chose Dye Dreams' Luster Worsted yarn, made of 100 percent blue-faced Leicester wool (BFL for short.)

I came across Dye Dreams at the Connecticut Sheep and Wool Festival last April, and snapped up 400 yarns of BFL in fingering weight faded denim for a shawl I've tucked away as a gift.

And then a couple of months ago, I got a chance to revisit the BFL when there arose a call for a wedding gift. We were thrilled to hear about the engagement. And what better way to celebrate than to knit a wedding present. Like I needed an excuse to order some more BFL. I  love this yarn. It is springy but soft, almost like merino. And BFL has the kind of crisp hand that gives wonderful stitch definition. What puts BFS in a class of its own is the way it takes dye, with a brilliant, reflective luster. The bride chose the color - holly - but the photos, unfortunately, don't do justice to the superbly rich hue, or to the nuanced striations which serve as highlights and shadows for the pattern stitch.

I started the mock cable throw in the week between workshops at Fresh Purls, when one of the things I did was show people how to move a post-it note to "underline" their place on a chart or written instructions. Because there are so many stitches in one row of the throw - 239 - I started breaking the rules and stopping in the middle of a row.

Stop-and-go knitting involving lace and eyelets is not a good idea, but the reality is that I'll never get ahead if I keep waiting for long blocks of time. One of the challenges in knitting for me is breaking the rules and getting away with it. Enter the post-it notes from the workshop. Make that two post-it notes. Intersect them on the page, and you have put a virtual finger on the place where you stopped. You can move it later without marking up the paper.