I'm working on the honeybee stole.

Current Project: Honeybee Stole from Knitspot
Yarn: Paloma – The Purled Llama Yarn Company
Color: Rainbow Glow


I’ve had a few challenges with this project. The stole is made of six sections that are symmetrical. It begins at the center back with a provisional cast-on, a new technique for me, which I chose to perform using the crochet hook method.

After figuring that out, I proceeded with section one. It initially took me a while to get into a rhythm with the pattern stitch in the first section because it didn’t seem as if my work looked like the picture on the pattern. I forged ahead, nonetheless, and indeed my stitch work began to take on the appearance of a pattern…after much knitting, re-knitting and unraveling.

Because I’m working with a finer yarn, my work did not appear as defined as the photo I was so drawn to when I purchased the pattern, and I’ve concluded that my handiwork probably won’t totally take on all the character I’m looking for until I’ve completed and blocked the entire project. Also...I hope to have sharper images by the time the stole is completed and blocked. :-)

Of course, I intentionally purchased the finer yarn to wear with this lovely, light-weight fabric dress.

I needed a color that matched the dress, and the Paloma Rainbow Glow matches perfectly and looks oh so good when you put it next to the soft lavender dress.

Now I’m at section three. Excluding getting the (PU4 bars k1) down, this has been the easiest section of all [Section two was the worst for me]. I seemed to have gotten lost many, many, many times in all those yarn-over’s (yo’s). But once I slowed down so that I didn’t accidentally drop them, this section started flowing a whole lot better.

To sum things up, I’ve learned a lot more about lacework, and I’m more confident in ripping out and recognizing stitches (the ssk’s, yo’s, knit two together, and slip one, k two together, psso’s).


Honestly, this was the first project that I came oh so close to, gladly, giving up on and saying ENOUGH, I’m defeated. I thought to myself many a time….no one in their right mind would keep working on something like this. But being the patient person that I am, I wouldn’t give up. In fact, if anyone can lock in on something or get kicked and stomped and still get up with some fight left, that’s me. Oh, the things I’ve learned about life from this project will help me to persevere even more whether through the next challenging technique or a challenge in my personal life. I’ll have a lovely, finished honeybee stole to prove that…yes, I will come out the victor.

If experience is the best teacher in life, let me avoid its long lasting hurt and pain and learn about things like perseverance, patience, and fortitude from the joys and pleasures I’ve experienced through knitting so that I may apply the things learned during those quiet hours of solitude to real life issues.