I thought I’d post a bit of a progress report on my lacy cape. I’ve finished the main body of the capeand just started working the knitted on border this week. I’m quite happy with the way it’s turning out so far, even if it’s hard to see because it’s so scrunched on the cables. [...]
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Oct 062010
Aug 032010
My brain seems to be needing mindless rather than complex lace, and this pattern certainly qualifies! I’m still loving the way the yarn and the pattern are blending together, even after knitting over 2 feet of scarf. I also finally remembered to bring my camera in to work, so I have a decent picture this [...]
Aug 022010
I spent the weekend playing with beads. How is that related to lace, you ask? Well, I spent it playing with designs for beaded stitch markers. Not the usual stitch markers you see, which are beads on headpins forms into wrapped loops, or attached to jump rings. Nope – I decided that since beadweaving was [...]
Jul 232010
You may recognize the colors/yarn in this new cast on: This is the same yarn I cast on for my attempt at a pooling scarf, using Knit Picks Shimmer. I got over a foot knit in length on the tubular scarf. While I was kind of fascinated with the way the pooling kept changing due [...]
Jul 182010
I’m not sure how to report progress that’s pretty straighforward. There was only one almost tragedy – the stitches had fallen off the needles in my bag, and I hadn’t realized it. I started knitting and then realized that my stitch count was off. Thankfully, alpaca has a tendency to stick to itself, so only [...]
Jul 092010
I think the new cast on is going to work, now that I have enough rows knit to do some estimates on size. Here’s a picture, although I don’t know that you can really tell from this that I’ve changed needle sizes! I’m not hating the looser stitches, so maybe I’ll be happy with the [...]
Jul 082010
I feel like I should be looking around for Mr. Miyagi! So my lovely inspiration, which had about 35 rows knit, was completely frogged yesterday. Those 35 rows were about a third of the pattern, and took up less than 4 inches. No way was it going to be big enough for a shawl, even [...]
Jul 062010
After a couple weeks of having very little on the needles, and a rather strange un-desire to actually cast on anything, my muse came back with a vengeance late last week. I cast on a new shawl over the weekend, a design that has been percolating in the back of my brain for over a [...]
Jun 212010
Normally I love to bead, but after deciding to add extra beads to the edging of Bad Cat’s Titania shawl, I ended up having a really hard time getting motivated to work on it. I finally disciplined myself to work an hour on Titania before I could pick up any other project for the day. [...]
I couldn’t wait to cast on another project. I still have Titania on the needles, but I added so many beads to the last few rows that I needed something to give me incentive. So now, before I can work on my new project, I have to put in at least an equal amount of [...]
