I love/hate lace!

I have a love/hate relationship with lace.  Don't get me wrong, it is beautiful to look at, but sometimes I wonder if, occasionally, when a designer is charting a lace pattern if they don't maybe, take a snooze in the middle of it and their hand jolts suddenly, drastically or not so drastically changing the chart just to make us all go a little crazy??!!  I really think that is what happens, I mean it can't be me right??...How could I do the same row over, and over, and OVER (insert expletive), and it STILL ISN'T RIGHT???   So, after a wonderful learning experience, I ended up with this beauty for my friend Katherine. Eleanor Cowl with the glorious yarn Sublime angora/merino.

So, even though it was all worth while, I still think that lace charters have the hardest job in the world.  This coming from a lady that has had such a bad day of work that the only thing that would console me was a hot fudge sunday.  It was THE BEST hot fudge sunday I've had in a long time!  Like the button on my knitting bag says, "knitting is cheaper than therapy" except when you are knitting lace.  Then only chocolate, ice cream, wine  and/or an antidepressant will do.