As you know, we’ve had the poll for Viewers Choice up for over a week. Alas, we’re not getting the voter turnout we need to figure out a winner yet. In fact, despite last season’s flurry of questions on how to vote for the other awards (which inspired me to create polls for each of [...]
Oct 172010
Sep 212010
I didnt get a lot of lace FINISHED this summer, but I got a lot cast on! Here are pictures of the two finished projects, and the…lots of projects still on the needles. I will finish my Emily soon, got bogged down in the rows of knitting. Aestlight finished Nutkins finished Emily about 30% done, though it [...]
Sep 212010
All blocked! Unfortunately I don’t have a great picture of it, since it was almost dark when I got home from work (I’ll post better pictures in Ravelry once I’ve had a chance to take them): I found a stitch I had dropped on the border when I was blocking it – luckily I caught [...]
Sep 202010
I also finished knitting my Emily Dickinson shawl. Actually, I finished knitting it a week ago, but I didn’t have a chance to post about it. It still needs to be blocked, but I will be doing that tonight to get this in just under the deadline. Here’s a picture of it near the end [...]
Sep 082010
Most times, when you are knitting lace, until the “magic” of blocking happens, it looks like just a knotted up pile of yarn. My Mysterious Emily, I must say, does not fit the bill. This yarn/bead combo (Habu stainless steel and black onyx beads) is just so perfect, that it looks beautiful, even when tossed [...]
Aug 232010
In the meantime I’ve progressed pretty fine with my Coaly Peacock. As a matter of fact all the stole needs to be called a FO is grafting together and blocking. Shouldn’t be too much of a problem you’d say. Only that I really don’t have the patience for grafting cobweb right now. Let alone black [...]
Aug 202010
Though I finished this shawl several weeks ago, this morning we took a few photos. I absolutely love how it turned out! Pattern from Knitlab Yarn Lost City Silk in Portland Beads Copper-lined clear size 6
Aug 102010
This took me a month. I used Mountain Colors Winter Lace in Deep Blue. This is laceweight and not cobweb weight. It took about 516 yards. I did use beads, attaching them with the Super Floss method. This is the first shawl that I think looks pretty good without blocking. The picture is unblocked – I’ll be blocking [...]
Aug 082010
I also started a new shawl the other day – I decided to knit Emily Dickinson even though I hadn’t planned on doing the KAL. I’ve only done a few rows (and missed up already, argh), so no pics yet. But I love the yarn – I’m using a skein of Posh Diana (a cobweb [...]
I wasn’t going to do the Emily Dickinson KAL but something caused me to rethink and I ended up buying the pattern and knitting it up. The reason I wasn’t going to do it was it seemed like it would be a little boring and then it doesn’t really have a log of lace in [...]
