I finished the "Pukwana of the Peace Pipe" motif yesterday afternoon. (Didn't get a picture; the camera needs to recharge).

Also spent some time (after youth group) working on Clapotis. I can totally see how this pattern could be easily modified to be something different - say you have a lace motif you want to work on the diagonal to make a shawl of. It would be easy enough to do that between the markers rather than the ktbls and plain-ks for the drop stitches. And I like the "modularity" of the pattern - if you want it bigger or smaller, you just alter the number of repeats of each section (increase, straight, decrease).

I like patterns that have a clear logic, where I can see the architecture that underlies how they work.

Youth group went surprisingly well - we made Chrismons, and although I was apprehensive about how much the mostly-teen-boy group would enjoy it, they really got into it, and made some really nice (and some very creative) interpretations of the patterns. We are going to decorate a small tree with them next week. (I'm trying not to have nightmares about the Chrismons being inadvertently "cleaned up" from where we left them for the glue to dry. We don't have a dedicated room in which we can easily do crafts, so we did it in the multipurpose room).

(Incidentally, one of the - not exactly disturbing, but discomfiting - things I noticed while researching these is that the very original idea -from the site I've linked - is that Chrismons are not meant to be sold. Each group wanting them is supposed to make them. However, things now being what they are, many of the sites that come up on Google are sites selling these ornaments. I'm going to refrain from my anti-materialist, pro-making-it-yourself rant here, but it does make me sort of sad to think that some people might never know these as anything but a purchased item).