This is totally not a codpiece tutorial.

...Just a mistake that kinda looks like a codpiece. 

I totally almost forgot this story, and took some pictures to illustrate it...
So I said in one of the last posts that I spent all last week trying to design my own triangle scarf, and day one I brought a lace stitch pattern book to work with me. What turned out to be difficult for me was making either increases or decreases in order to build a triangle while working a lace pattern that relies on the same for affect. I finally decided I would start at the bottom point and with the Lotus Blossom stitch pattern, because I thought it would be easier to slowly increase without messing up the stitch count for the lace.

It was good in some ways, but  the pattern pulls the fabric in certain ways that causes some of the edges to scallop. It also caused weird bulges in the fabric, and all of this amounted to an embarrassing piece of fabric, what I now call the knitted lace codpiece... Strangely the first 2 pictures do the piece more justice than it had in life, because I think I'm tugging the tail down to create a point... (This is the deep blue and purple Salvia yarn I got on ebay, pictures of which are in the post below.)

But you can tell in the last picture that the end is really more rounded, and the angle of the V looks too much like a pair of thong underwear for me to complete it-really I don't want it to look like I'm wearing panties around my neck. Although a friend recommended just making underwear, I still unraveled it, saving the yarn for another project.
Just to be clear, I'm not against knitting underwear, I really just wanted a pointy neck scarf...(which I got, the Aubrey shawl with Kashmira yarn, pictures in the post below.)

In Noro news, I tried Aunt Phebe's Comfort shawl on Monday, and while it looked alright, after about 45 rows or so I decided it wasn't what I wanted for the yarn after all. I took yesterday off from knitting to read,  and today I began a rectangular scarf with The Old Shale lace pattern (also known as feather and fan lace), a very uncomplicated and mindless pattern. The Old Shale is a "classic Shetland" patt, and looks really cool with sock yarn and (US) size 15 needles. I'm only a few rows in (less than 30) but it already looks like the most elegant thing I've ever created. I am so in love with the colors so far, having started with purple, then a little navy, and now green. I'd post pictures but it's getting late...hopefully I'll have some up by the weekend.

I also found this picture tutorial on winding a hank of yarn into a ball,  if anyone is interested...My first hank experience ended in a ginormous wad of tangles and knots, and an itty bitty ball of yarn, so I've decided to never ever wait to unwind one at work ever again.