… imagine you are working on your lace-cobweb shawl, slowly approaching the halfway-through milestone, getting the grasp of the pattern after all when, all of a sudden, the thread rips into two and while you are still trying to join the threads again you are completely missing the one stitch that slipped off the needle, [...]
May 052010
Apr 202010
Last week I was on vacation. Hubby came down with a cold right at the start of the trip, so there was a lot of lazing about the condo rather than doing stuff. Needless to say, I relaxed on the couch with my pretty view and did quite a bit of knitting. Ribbons got much [...]
Apr 052010
This weekend I hoped to make some really good progress on my scarf design. I got about 15-20 rows knit, and I was contemplating the pattern. I had enough knit to see how long the scarf would turn out. As I suspected, I’m going to have to do 2 sets of the pattern to get [...]
Apr 032010
URGH! While winding my yarn, it became a tangled mess!!! Must stash dive to find another suitable yarn for the Mystic Glance KAL.
Mar 052010
So I’m going through my pile of lace WIPs and I find my Alhambria scarf that I had started ages ago and was still just about 40% finished. In my eagerness for warmer weather I started to get that spring cleaning bug so I started to work away on it once again. While I was [...]
Feb 122010
Finally! Echo has been blocked, photographed, and put away. I’m so happy to have this off the needles, as it proved to be a major source of frustration. Those nasty little nupps! You can find more photos on my Ravelry page here. If you look at the close ups I took, you’ll see where I [...]
Feb 092010
Chart 1 of my Midnight in Antarctica is complete and I’m loving how it looks/feels so far. Below are two progress photos that don’t really show the beads at all. I’m using two silver lined blues, and a silver lined clear. It’s going to be great! I’m refusing to discuss the giant (disasterous) hole from [...]
Feb 062010
I’m currently working on the Echo Shawl (no new pictures to share yet, as, when it’s on a needles it just looks like a pile of yarn), and hope to get it done this weekend. This is the first time I’ve done nupps, and I’ve gotta tell ya…..they are a bit unnerving. The problem of [...]
Feb 032010
So I cast on over the weekend with Malabrigo laceweight for the Super Spiral Shawl in A Gathering of Lace. I have never used Malabrigo lace and I have never knit a circular shawl before. Beginning the shawl was not really tricky but it was fiddly. But I found my groove and made some headway. [...]
The Baked Clay Aeolian on the blocking wires! The Blue Silk for the next Aeolian…
