The colorway names for the scrumptious Bugga! yarn I knit my latest shawl with may not be my favorite bugs — June Bug, Dog Days Cicada — but they are quintessential summer bugs, and I do love the summer green colors that The Sanguine Gryphon used for these colorways. Together, they made a subtle green [...]
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Aug 232011
Jul 312011
For the Camp Loopy (The Loopy Ewe’s summer KAL fun and challenges) challenge I, I cast on Andrea’s Shawl on June 21st… but didn’t finish in time to complete the first challenge. Far from it. It’s my own fault: I kept reading from knitter after knitter on Ravelry that they wished they had knit the [...]
Jun 242011
Last season, I showed you the beginning of my “Crazy Lace Citron”: a variation of Citron from knitty, where you put in your own choice of lace motifs in the stockinette section. I cast it on in early March and just bound off, as summer started. Some of the lace patterns, I ended up unventing [...]
Jun 192011
Monkey socks are lace, right? I’m going to take them as such! I started these Monkey socks eons ago. Well, two or three years. I should have put them under resurrected lace last season, because last winter is when I picked them up and recommenced knitting them. This is how they looked when I previously [...]
Mar 212011
Keeping up, I wanted to show the beginning of my Crazy Lace Citron: a Citron which intersperses lace motifs between the ruched rows. (Not my original idea; there’s a KAL on Ravelry.) This picture is from earlier this month when I had just done the first lace section (though it’s not showing to advantage). (I [...]
Mar 202011
Actually, I cast on, knit and finished this shawl all in winter… but it’s a Very Fall Shawl in color and theme, and now spring is finally (kind of) here. Talk about seasonal confusion! Well, it will be ready to wear next autumn, and whenever the air conditioning gets too cold in the summer. Plus, [...]
Feb 142011
Almost as soon as I finished my last small shawl, I cast on another. I have had this amazing yarn through a short club from Twisted Fiber Art since before Christmas, and I had no time to knit it up! It’s called “Yummy”, and it’s a new yarn to Meg, the dyer: a light worsted [...]
Jan 232011
The little bit of remaining yarn that I showed you in a prior post went further than I thought possible! I finished my modified (to be smaller) lace border, believe it or not. (I think it was a minor miracle.) However…I needed to knit across and bind off the provisional cast-on, and the minor miracle [...]
Jan 162011
charm? Third try at the edging for Aestlight (not because it’s hard, but because of a relative shortage of yarn, as in my prior post). I ‘unvented’ this edging, in the words of Elizabeth Zimmermann (that is, made it up as I went along), but I’m sure it’s published somewhere. So, do you think I’m [...]
Jan 052011
New year, new resurrected lace! I hope to soon finish this small shawl, Aestlight, which was started in, oh, July, according to my Ravelry project page. Above in the late fall, and below in the early winter, before it was put aside for holiday knitting. However, besides the holidays, the other constraint is this: Based on [...]
