speed lace

I think five days before a wedding is an ideal time to start a handknitted gift for the bride.

There's nothing particularly impetuous or foolish about casting on a project from a magazine the day it arrives in the post, before you've even finished reading it. (Lace Scarf from the Summer Interweave Knits, if you're wondering)

Not if you have the perfect yarn, that's been sitting in the cupboard for ages, a big cone of lovely laceweight alpaca that you got from a dodgy back street Peruvian yarn shop. And it's alright, look! Someone on ravelry has made it in two days, so it's totally doable. I bet she also had a small grumpy baby to look after. And it was probably also her first attempt at a proper lace thing. She probably paused to blog about it in those two days too. So it's all perfectly reasonable. No need to panic, or wonder why on earth you have such a lack of forward planning ability, leaving you with such crazy self-imposed deadlines...

Er.. might just put down this brew and get back to that knitting then...
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