I’ve been stuck on PI sweaters lately!! I CO this one in May, so I picked it up and finished this week!! It’s my own pattern, soon to be up on Ravelry!!! It’s called Piggy’s Pie Sweater and I’ll be donating a couple of patterns for prizes as soon as I get it up and [...]
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Jul 162010
I’ve got my first FO for the summer season!! I’ve put the pattern on Ravelry as a Freeby here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/prayers-of-love-shawl It’s being modeled by a fiberglass sheep in from of our LYS, The Wool and Cotton Shop. This is a really easy, fun knit!!! (IMHO) It takes 3 skiens of Brown Sheep Nature Spun Worsted [...]
Jun 212010
Here’s a much nicer photo of the only bind-off I can claim this season. This pattern, Miryam, is going to be released sometime this week at The Sanguine Gryphon, as I hope will be my pattern from last spring now called Aster Nyx. I’m hoping it will bring in enough cash to fund a few [...]
Jun 152010
I’ve finished my Me-Maw’s Garden!! The final version is 58 inches across and used 1500 yards or lace weight wool and 1500 beads…. After that was finished I got to just playing around….. This one was 42 inches across and used about 500 yards of Dream in Color Baby. And this bit of craziness is [...]
Jun 102010
Last week these amazing stitch markers made by the amazing Utlinde arrived in the mail. You know, I could try to get another photo, but mine would not be better than this one. The amazing thing is that this photo makes the markers appear a bit bigger than they are. That is amazing to me, [...]
Jun 012010
My latest attempt at design is for a Pi Shawl class I’m teaching at the LYS here. I’ve got another one on the needles that I think will really look better for display at the shop. This one is 750 yards of merino lace and 1500+ beads and measures 48 inches across after blocking. I’m [...]
May 212010
Yesterday I promised some Random Joy…. And here’s what I ‘ve got. From our very own Utlinde, who has made these just for us. A set of TATTED stitch markers. Tatted I tell you. How about that….. And … the Random Number Generator says that Utlinde will be sending them to…. SLIGO! I’ll be emailing [...]
May 082010
Hi, I’m casting on a design as you go spread with this and was wondering if anyone might know how old this is?? It’s from Sears and Roebucks and was in skeins. I don’t think the original color was ecru, but it is now. It was a gift to a friend of mine from an [...]
May 012010
One last april lace…. socks!! Finished last night!! And yes, I know I need some new furniture, but comfort about looks in all things!!! LOL!!! Carla
Apr 292010
Hi, April has been a really busy month for me!! The hard part is a lot of what I’ve been doing has been test knits and I can’t show pics of it just yet!! Let’s just say that I went thru 9.5 skeins of Yak Down (200 yds/1 oz skein)!! That was an experience!! After [...]
