Seasons of Lace

Do you know what this is?

This is the last bead.  When this bead goes on, Daedelus will have all of its beads.  All of them.

And here is that bead in place….

Yes…. tonight, I finished knitting Daedelus..

Before the bath, she stretched out on the living room floor…

Then she nested in to his/har bath… (I’m still conflicted.  I think of Daedelus as a masculine name, but shawls feel female — especially pink ones! with pinkish beads — and after all this intense time together "it" just doesn’t cut it).

And then, she stretched out on the new puzzle block mats I bought to be SURE I’d have enough space to block a full size shawl….(I used 25 squares (though one of them could have been omitted — and in this configuration, that means that the shawl is more than six feet from wing tip to wing tip).

After I took this, I noticed that the sides weren’t even.  So….I grabbed Mr. Spray, and re-stretched the left side to let him stretch his wing just a tad more.

Glamour shots when Daedulus is dry….. (after all, even newborn flies wait until their wings are dry, we can hardly ask more from someone as lovely as this).

THANK YOU JOAN!  for making Daedelus possible!