Tinkerin' w/Some Lace Motifs

This one was snapped last night at knit-night.
I'm not sure I like how the humps of the hearts are turning out,
and may end up frogging it back to where
the crochet hook is in the picture.
Please tell me you can see the hearts!

ETA: 12/28/10 Frogged & abandoned!

Okay. Imagine my surprise when I got to Paris last month,

and the new jeans I bought for the trip and took to the
tailor to get fitted properly, apparently...
WAS NOT FITTED.

The costs of tailoring far outweighed the

actual cost of the jeans.
And as fate would have it, I was without a belt.
The fate of a heavy set woman finding
anything, much less a belt, in Paris THAT FITS
is "difficult." So, I set about hooking up a
simple strip of SOMETHING
to tie around my waist to hold my jeans up...
anything, even a length of yarn is better
than what I was doing, which is to say...
LITERALLY HOLDING MY JEANS UP

WITH MY HANDS.
Oh yes, I seethed the entire 12 days of
my vacation, as my jeans were
intended to be worn a LOT.

Here's the husband modeling the aforementioned
*ahem* "belt."

ETA: 12/28/10 I am now on track for WLS in January 2011.

I am going to be wearing the FUCK out of these

jeans, and they officially are the last pair

of "fat jeans" I will have purchased.

Broomstick Lace: Introducing My "Dog Dick"

Here I am, working a set of four loops off my "dog dick"...
A 25 mm thick knitting needle.
This project will not be revealed until sometime this summer.
Shhh!

ETA: Project scrapped & existing square & yarn

associated with it donated for an afghan.

Broomstick Lace: The Maiden Swatch

Took some doing for me to figure it out.
Figure out the mechanics of using a huge knitting needle (thick like a dowel).
Figure out which direction to twist the loops off the dowel.
Figure out how to cast on to the dowel.
I think I got it.
I want a thicker dowel now, for big, open lacework.