I haven´t posted here in a while since my projects where at the one hand hibernating a lot and at the other hand pretty big, too big to finish them in time for any contests. Nevertheless I posted about them here in the past and thought you might be interested to see the FOs My [...]
Nov 212011
Oct 202011
I’m a tad behind posting some FO’s…not really for a particular season cause I really don’t know which is what right now but thought I’d share a few just to well….share a few! This would be the medium size of Three Quarter Time in Unique Sheep’s Eos, Coral and Cream graded colorway And then there’s [...]
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Oct 122011
I call it a scarf, but Birdsfoot Fern could just as easily be worn as a shoulder shawl. I’m not sure exactly when I knit this, sometime during the summer when I was waiting for yarn for a different project to arrive. The pattern is now for sale, and The Sanguine Gryphon even dyed up [...]
Oct 122011
I have actually finished a piece of lace! My husband and I have a new arrangement whereby I actually get all my work hours in during the daytime hours on most days, so now I have time to knit at night. Most of this piece was knit in the last two weeks. Gnarled Oakwoods is [...]
Sep 292011
I really found it fun to go back and look at the projects again. I decided this season to post more and also to nominate projects for prizes. I even found a new pattern for a difficult yarn that I wanted to use. I’ll post on that next season…
Sep 242011
Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud, 3.0 and 3.25 mm needles, gold beads. Started August 21, 2011. Finished Sept 20. Ornaghi Filati Merino Oro, 3.0 and 3.25 mm needles, pink beads. Started February 15, 2011, finished Sept. 17.
Sep 182011
I knit quite a lot of lace in the off-season. I thought a fair amount about lace in this season. I positively obsessed over spinning lace (without successfully spinning any, but it was enough to dissuade me from casting on with any existing, perfectly good lace yarn I might happen to have lying around the [...]
Sep 102011
I got tired of finishing things–well, am going to be working on the knitted on edging for Renee Leverington’s Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend for some time, but cast on her Emerald Isle in late August, and Monika Eckert’s Vincent last week. both are knitting up fast. Then this week I bought 4 of [...]
Aug 182011
The princess in me tells me that shawls are to be worn gracefully. My mother is graceful and I hope I’ve inherited just a little of it. She swoops in every few weeks and snaps up my latest sample with definite plans to wear it to her next social outing or to church….she does wear them well and [...]
