I started my first attempt at lace knitting today: the Juno Regina pattern from Knitty Fall ‘07. I thought it looked like a good first pattern to try; not TOO hard, but not so simple that it might become boring. I might be wrong, but so far, so good.

I’m really excited about it. Should I technically be working on this? Um. Probably not. I should be working on my Christmas-gift knitting. But… ya know… I had to take a break and do something different for a while, ya know?

The yarn I’m using is my Wollmeise Lace. The name of the color is “Pfauenauge”, which Julie was kind enough to tell me translates to “peacock butterfly”. It’s really very lovely.

I’ve actually made a lot more progress than what’s shown in that photo, but I couldn’t get a good photo of it because I don’t have enough hands to stretch out the piece and hold my camera. Maybe tomorrow I’ll pin it down to a mat and take pictures.

Anyway.

I did most of the knitting while watching a marathon of “I Love Lucy” on TV-Land network. Oh my, I forgot how much I loved that show! I used to watch it all the time when I was younger. I laughed harder than I’ve laughed in quite a long time.

Then “Beaches” came on and I made the mistake of watching that — I say “mistake” only because at the end I was a sobbing, pathetic mess. I hate that!! But it’s a good movie nonetheless.

So anyway, that’s mostly how I spent my day after Thanksgiving: knitting and watching cheesy television. Did any of ya’ll go shopping? Did you get any good deals? Right before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming that I was at Best Buy running all over the store trying to get my hands on a laptop that was on sale. I woke up before I found it though. Damn it! Ha ha. No laptop for me.