Aching for Yarn (pink yarn)

I have been having issues with lace weight. Apparently I think I am a master yarner and that I can do anything that anyone else with years of knitting experience can throw down.

I must remember that I have only been seriously knitting for a few months. I must also remember that while I am deft and dexterous at crafts that everything will not come easy.

What? You mean I'm not special???

Oh dear. No one tell my mother. She'll be crushed.

I did buy two types of lace weight yarn with the idea that I am going to make a beautiful lace shawl ala the Yarn Harlot. Please don't laugh. I forget myself. You will be relieved to know that I did remember myself - over and over each time I began again, messed up, and ripped out.

I even chose a relatively easy pattern. I am trying (like hell) to make the Gypsy Rose Scarf. I cast on countless times, and apparently am unable to count to 63, because I always ended up with either too many or too few stitches at the end of one of the first rows. It was maddening. I thought it might be the needles, so I switched from metal to bamboo. Bamboo was worse - the yarn gripped too much. I figured it out finally, that I wasn't getting the pattern because I couldn't see it as well on such skinny yarn.

So to get the hang of the dang pattern, I switched to a worsted weight yarn on size 7 needles. And lo and behold, the pattern finally made sense! I could see the stitches, and I could see what they looked like when I was working the pattern.

So now I have moved down in yarn size. I purchased 2 skeins of Crystal Palace Bamboo Silk in a pretty pale pink color. It came today, and I immediately started working with it. Oh, I am in love! The yarn is so shiny, and so small and smooth that it makes my heart ache. I love it so much that I would marry it if polygamy was allowed in Florida. And I started knitting the scarf:

It doesn't convey the sheen of the yarn, or the way my heart does a little flip-flop every time I touch it. But now that I have the pattern, I am going to make a whole dang scarf out of the fingering weight. Maybe by that time I'll be more comfortable with skinny little yarns, that I'll be able to tackle lace weight and not pull out my hair.