Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy Lace Shawl, with beads

I knitted it again in laceweight yarn, but this time added a bead into each of the picots, it's really pretty as it catches the light.
Does my bum look big in this? - Don't bothering answering, I know....

All the picots pinned out

Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy Lace Shawl in Double Knit

This is the same shawl, but knitted in a double knit weight yarn, it has a silver thread running through it, which catches the light. You can see the picots quite well.

Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy Lace Shawl

This is me trying to be arty!

And again!

But you get a better idea of what the shawl looks like from this one. It's a very easy pattern, taken from my Sampler Lace Shawl pattern, just using a combination of eyelet & stockinette then finishing off with a picot edging. The pattern for this will be in this years Woolfest programme.

This is it with the picots pinned out, blocking.

Back from holidays!

Well, just back from 6 weeks in Spain. The first 2 were cold & cloudy but after that it gradually got warmer, so much so that on Saturday it was so hot I couldn't sit out in it & I went to see what the temperature was in the car & it said it was 47 degrees! & that was at 4 in the afternoon! The Spanish don't know how lucky they are, when we flew back into Glasgow airport you notice how dull the light is, apart from the cold!

We were there again for their fiesta, The Fallas, it's just held in the Valencia region & they built these huge papier mache sculptures & then set fire to them! In Valencia this year there were 800 but in the town we were in there were 20. The whole town gets involved & there are mascletas, fire crackers, set off from 7am - long past midnight!

This is the one of the main Fallas.

This is one of the Children's Fallas, this was my favourite, there's so much detail in them.

These are the Falleras dressed up & they parade around the different districts of the town accompanied by a band. The dresses are stunning & the whole outfits can cost upto 13,000 euros each, as they have hair pieces which are made of gold.

This is one of the bands going up the main street, you can't see it in the photo but the band master is conducting with a flower!

After the main parade the Falleras all have bouquets which are placed in this statue outside the church. The cloak is completely made from flowers, with the designs being made from different coloured flowers.

This is 1 of the streets decorated for the fiesta, it's in 1 of the oldest parts of town, the road leads up to castle, which dates back to Roman times.