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 [...]
Aug 042010
It’s a beautiful shawl, but I found all that garter stitch to be a bit of a slog. Here she is: I chose to knit Emily in a fingering weight, rather than a cobweb, because I wanted it a bit bigger and in black and I had that in fingering (Knit Picks Shadow). Ravelry’d here. [...]
Jul 292010
Well, I cast on for the Emily Dickinson KAL. I am using Mountain Colors Winter Lace in Deep Blue and size 6 needles. I am beading as well using the Super Floss method. I only have the cast-on picture because I use lots of lifelines and you don’t get a great picture with all the [...]
Jul 222010
Just thought I’d check in and share my progress. Below is Emily Dickinson after I decided to stop the garter stitch in favor of stockinette. I also quit decreasing so fast and am now decreasing every 6th row (the row 2 rows before each beaded row) in order to get some more length. The beads [...]
Jul 192010
Wow! I just have so much to add here! I think I will have to do several posts over the next few days to get it all in. Here I will post my pic of the SECOND cast on of my Emily Dickinson shawl. The first time I cast on too many stitches. Next is [...]
Jul 122010
When I fist saw the Emily pattern, in all honestly, I really wasn’t all that excited about it. First of all 300 yards wasn’t going to put much of a dent in my stash, and I’m really working to knit that down. Second, it was a little on the plain and ordinary side for me. [...]
Jul 072010
Like many I’ve long enjoyed the poetry of Emily Dickinson as well as been curious about her life. The sparse beauty of her poetry shows such depth of spirit and emotion. In My Wars Are Laid Away in Books Alfred Habegger sums it up quite well by writing “Dickinson lives for us because she was [...]
Jun 292010
I decided to join the Emily Dickerson KAL. Right now, I am in the middle of casting on over 500 stitches! I have in my stash, two cones Colormart yarn. One cone is an alpaca laceweight and the other cone is silk laceweight. I am using this yarn doubled. I also found in my stash, [...]
Jun 282010
The generous and talented LostCityDenise will be leading us in a KAL for the Emily DickinsonShawl. Some of us, finding this out before the official blog reveal by reading the Ravelry Page, got all fired up and chose yarn and started casting on. I’m among those folks. (Yes, it’s true, I’m really gonna participate in [...]
Jun 272010
I have been ….. unfaithful…… and yet, in my unfaith, faithful. Despite my keen desire to finish Irtfa’a, the interminable nature of the edging has weakened my resolve. I’ve knit and beaded and knit, and knit and beaded and knit, and still, despite two diligent weeks of effort, I’ve yet to hit the center panel. [...]
