The Princess' mother, Queen Louise, said that the handsome Prince was a catch because he was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent - a regular Boy Scout. Also, he could repair almost anything, and Queen Louise had an appreciation for men who actually have useful skills. The Princess thought he was an exceptional catch because he actually loved her, so she snagged him. They got married in a lovely little Christmastime wedding and lived happily ever after until...
They lived happily ever after until along came an evil, wicked witch. Nobody remembers what the witch looked like or what her name was, because she was a such formidable stealthy, slippery type. Nobody even remembers how this evil creature came to be so offended as to cast the evil spell. Certainly, she was not invited to the lovely Christmastime wedding, which was a small affair and attended only by Very Nice People. Maybe that was the issue; anyway, she came along and placed an Enchantment on the poor Princess.
This Princess already had a marked weakness for needlework of all kinds, but the wicked, horrible, awful, very bad witch cursed her with an enchantment for knitting machines. The Prince, an unwitting accomplice to the evil witch, who had his own weakness for mechanical objects, promptly purchased one for his Princess bride, and the rest is history. Years went by, and that Princess was constantly playing with the thing, figuring out more and more things it could do, and generally neglecting everyone. On some evil day, she started recruiting more machine knitting victims, and things went downhill from there..
One day when the Princess was sort of a rickety old thing herself, she put a spell on the son of the son of that knitting machine and made it make round doilies using electronic programming, and part buttons and a lace carriage. She made dozens of Enchanted Doilies until she began to dream in lace circles.
Now the Rather Rickety Number Nerd Princess has coaxed the machine into making lace Enchanted Edgings - and they're extremely fast and easily - almost mindless. Sneak peek here.
You - are - a - HOOT!! I'm laughing my head off. Especially the part about the prince being an unwitting accomplice. That's the story in our house, for sure.
ReplyDeleteLove the lace edging, happens to be exactly what I'm learning about at the moment. Can't wait to see more. And. . . round doilies??!?! Do tell.
Hysterical! I write the silly knitting fairy tale, and the Adsense ads switch to love potions and Frog Princess ads!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I couldn't decide if that was funny, cool or interesting. But, it was a great story. Thanks. LOVE the edging. I'm enjoying your teaching methods.
ReplyDeleteCharlene
By the way, is there a tutorial that goes with this? she asked hopefully?
ReplyDeleteCharlene
I am planning some lace videos, also designing some fresh edgings, trims, and lace tricks.
ReplyDeleteExcellent news. Looking forward to that.
ReplyDeleteThe one you have pictured looks perfect as a border for a little girl's baby blanket. It would be terrific to have borders like that in one's bag of tricks.
You're going to force me to pull that thing out from under the bed, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteNaw, I don't force anyone. I COAX. And, you know that poor little machine is lonesome under the bed with no company except the family under-the-bed monster.
ReplyDeleteYour Royal Highness (curtsy)
ReplyDeleteAs one who is deeply enamoured with your endearing lace edging, may I entreat you to consider your poor, loyal knitting subjects, and release said video at your earliest opportune moment?
Thank you for your gracious consideration :D
We just had our Machine Knit meeting in Leander.
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