In 2005 or so, I bought a number of skeins of Malabrigo lace weight online. This month, Stashalong is doing one skein projects for its knitalong within a knitalong. I pulled one of my skeins out and decided to knit the Swiss Cheese Scarf (unsurprisingly, I found it via Ravelry). I looked at the pattern and I knit. I started on Friday, forgoing the items I have that are close to completion to add another WIP to my list. I looked at the pattern and decided that as it was written out the holes (it is Swiss Cheese after all) were not going to alternate, so I shoved my yarn in the freezer (this was Saturday evening and I'd made good progress) and then when it was less grippy I ripped the entire thing out. This morning, I decided that I needed to make the edge wavy still and as I had done it the first repeat wouldn't be wavy but the rest would be (trust me, obvious with a picture). Back into the freezer it went.
And I started again.
I hope this time goes better. I feel hopeful, because I've worked out most of the kinks. So, I rewarded myself with a treat.
A couple of weeks ago I made a batch of mocha ripple (an ingredient in the Tiramisu ice cream), but didn't use the entire thing for the ice cream. It makes a lot of ripple, which is like the coffee version, at least as I made it, of chocolate syrup. I've taken to treating it just like the Hershey's syrup you would add to your milk. A couple of small teaspoons in my skim milk and I have delicious cold coffee (and chocolate) milk. The only thing that could probably make it better is kahlua for a tasty adult treat.
