#maiglockchen

Artist Name: Maiglöckchen      I       Artist Social: @convallariini​ on Tumblr, convallariini on Instagram

Writer Name: Akajed      I      Writer Social: akajed on AO3

Breathe, Dean tells himself. Stay calm. Cas can’t have disappeared into thin air, he doesn’t have the juice any more. 

The door of the tall locker at the end is swinging open and the keys are hanging from the lock. It’s big enough for someone to hide inside but there’s nothing there. Dean takes a hammer to the other lockers and works his way through them until he’s smashed open all the doors. It’s not the most logical thing to do but it’s one way to channel the rising tide of panic.

His angel—his man, he corrects himself—has vanished.

--from stories, not atoms by akajed

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I had an idea.

You know how there’s the Gangzma Discord server, where a bunch of Guzma RPers hang out and do stuff IC and OOC?

What if I made a server for all of the Lillie RPers?

So, here is my Maiglockchen, on row 180.  Why is row 180 special, you ask?  I am finally off of the doublespread pages!  The past 80 rows have had each repeat divided into a left section and a right section. 

So, I'd have to knit across the chart on the bottom, then knit across the chart at the top.  Do that for sixteen repeats, and then knit through a row, and start again on the next line.  As you can see, I took to highlighting each row as I finished, just so I could figure out where I was.  (That was actually really helpful.)

But now, there's only one page of chart per repeat:

And it's so much easier to read!  (I will probably still highlight the rows as I finish, but I haven't finished anything on this page, yet.)  Also, only 50 more rows to go!  Well, that's still 35% of the shawl, since each row is bigger, but it's fun to be able to see the end of the project!

I needed a non-super-complex-lace project, so I grabbed some Caron Simply Soft and started a $5 in Paris.  It's supposed to just have stripes, but I'm seriously considering throwing in the Sneaky Argyle pattern from Wendyknits Toe Up Socks for Everybody.  It'll just take some math.

sure thing!