Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter’s petticoat.
[Irish Proverb]

I never knew if that meant the daughter flirted to get a husband by showing the lace on her petticoat, or if the lace was worth so much that it figured into the price of the property.

I knit this shawl using fine silk/wool yarn. I adapted Marianne Kinzel’s “Trifolium Design” from her Second Book of Modern Lace Knitting (available from Dover Books). I added clear glass beads to the crochet loops that finish the shawl.

I received this book for Christmas in 1965 and have knitted almost every pattern in it. There are no errors. In the forty years I’ve spent wearing out this book, I never realized the thought behind the pattern selections until now. Ms Kinzel designed and wrote her lace patterns in England, but was originally from Bohemia. In this book, she included four spectacular patterns that represent the four segments of the United Kingdom: Scotland—”Balmoral” (Thistle), England—”Rose of England,” Ireland—”Trifolium,” and Wales—”Daffodil.”

Time for direction correction!
[L. M. Heroux]

For several years, my sock pattern book, The Tongue River Sock Collection, has been sold with a correction label on the inside cover. That correction reads:

CORRECTION: Fancy Checkerboard Sock, chart-section #5 on Page 5 — Hold the book sideways as you would to read the chart information. There are three columns of stitches on the far left of chart-section #5 that should be deleted from the chart.

I just received an email from a knitter who pointed out another error. There is a Chart Symbol Key on the back cover. The Words “Left Lifted Increase” and “Right Lifted Increase” are in the wrong place. The following diagram and instructions show how the symbol key should read:

RIGHT INCREASE: Knit the stitch from the left needle. Pick up the loop of the stitch below the one just knit and knit into that loop.

LEFT INCREASE: Knit the loop below the stitch on the left needle. Knit into the actual stitch.

My apologies to any knitters who were frustrated by this error. I wish I had a way of composing patterns error-free.

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start.
So far today, I have finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake.
I feel better already.
[Dave Barry]

I’ve been finishing projects. I still need to write up the pattern for the Argyle vest and the little hat, but at least the garments are finished. The toe-up sock is next.