Sunday, July 30, 2006

My Day Off-ish

Sorry about not updating the new subjects of the Doom Doily, but I've had 2 sick kids and 2 starving cats today...

I promise I'll put you in tomorrow!!!


-Robin

My artistic vision

Not very artistic, mind you, and I missed a crucial point in my diagram, but here ya go.



I'll start the doily and a few of the lace patterns. What lace patterns I start, I'll write out directions or a chart if the next person wants to follow them. (If that person doesn't like 'em, toss it. Don't want to doom it ya know.) Most of the sections I'll leave blank. It's up to the next person if they want to put a little lace pattern in it or leave it stockinette. And so on it shall go. (This will make sense once it happens, I think.)

To add to the doomed madness, this is done in whatever threads you have. Any colour. If you have partial balls you want to use up, knock yourself out. I can hope that a person doesn't put two horribly clashing colours next to each other, but it's entirely up to the participants.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Sign-Up

Ok, if you want to knit on the Travelling Doily of Doom, sign-up is ON!

Email me at rcmcmul at excite.com

First one in gets Monkeemail!!!! (when she's finished with her part, of course!)



There's no current deadline for signup. For those that just HAVE to have a deadline... think Sept 30.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Doom Doily Approaches!!

This is what we're doing....

Monkee is going to cast on (and hopefully devise a base pattern) for a doily.

After as many rounds as she can handle, she will send the doily and pattern on to you, my friend, who will knit more doily, adding lace stitches as you would like. Just stay within the constraints of the pinwheel base, please. Feel free to add any color size 10 crochet cotton when you run out. Don't forget to take a picture of the growing doily with a cup of your favorite tea sitting upon it and post it here.

Then you will send it on to the next person in line and so on until we run out of volunteers, at which point it will come back to me for bordering and blocking and probably a recircumnavigation of the globe.

And pictures.... lots of pictures.