The following posts/projects have been nominated for Lace on Display. Frosted Wedding Rings Shawl Aster Nyx Emily Dickinson Stole Sommerwiese (Summermeadow) Autumn Leaves Emily Dickinson – Chestnut Sherry Evening Victorian Lace Shawl Baltic Blossoms Happy Just Being Emily Emily Dickinson (Dark) Sunflower Divine Firelight Ramona-Ruth Sweet Sweet Emily And once again, we invite you to [...]
Oct 072010
Oct 062010
The following posts/projects were nominated for the Traveling Lace award: River Rapids Ribbon Lace on the Road Kai-Mae Socks Chinoise Nutkin Victorian Lace Shawl And, since we started this, we may as well include it for all the Judged Categories, or our experiment will be… flawed. So, here’s a poll to let YOU vote on [...]
Oct 052010
I love this time of the post-season. I get to put up these posts full of AMAZING stuff…. all in one place. The following posts (and projects) were nominated for the Lace Partnership. That means that whoever did the nominating believes that the yarn (or yarn and beads) chosen works particularly well with the specific [...]
Sep 262010
I finished the hat Sept 12, but I forgot to photo it before sending it to Denise, cause she loved the color. So here’s a great pic of Lost City Denise in the hat, thanks to Chris, her partner. It’s about 165 yds of angora blend. Pattern from Luxury One Skein Wonders, and then blocked [...]
Sep 252010
I must be getting the hang of this knitting with holes stuff, maybe even blasé, because here is the other thing I finished recently, and actually forgot to mention: That, my friends, was a two-day project, even for me. A mitt a day, thanks to a simple pattern I actually understood and memorized instantly. Like [...]
Sep 222010
I haven’t posted all that much but I did get some things done so as a wave good bye to summer I thought I would post a general update. I took most of these pictures a few weeks ago but only just got them downloaded. It is just more fun to knit than to type… [...]
Sep 222010
OK, I think it’s happened. The lace bug bit me, and my own archness finished me off. There I was, smugly knitting Annis – all 18 rows of lace (nine whole pattern rows to keep track of) – safe in the knowledge that that was all there was: after that, just some ‘nice restful stockinette’ [...]
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 212010
Well, unlike many of you, I don’t have a lovely finished lace object to show off at the end of the season. However, since I started this shawl this season, I should at least mark that I cast it on September 4th. It’s the Handsome Triangle from Victorian Lace today. It’s pretty simple, but it’s [...]
