I seem to have spent more time unpicking than knitting the past week, but have managed to complete a few things despite this setback.
The Plum coloured neck cowl, or whatever you care to call it, made with the Wheat-Ear Border pattern has turned out suitable for another Christmas gift. I added 8 more garter stitches to the garter stitch edge, and did short rows every 6 rows on just the pattern part, so it curved a bit more to lie nicely around the neck..… Continue
Yarn is stashed in my filing drawer. My lacework is in an antique basket I've dragged around forever and last used for potpourri. It works perfectly. Markers note each segment of my pattern (thanks again Kelli!) and I've learned to stop when I am tired. Falling asleep between stitches does not work for accurate counts.
Without a ball winder, I hand wound one ball of Shimmer lace (Baby Alpaca and Silk) in Spice (the photo from KnitPicks) and started on a Treasure Shawl as a gift for one of my fr… Continue
The past 3 days have been mostly taken up knitting a birthday present for my friend. I can't say what it is at the moment as she reads this blog occasionally and it might spoil the surprise. Will post later.
Well my wonderful KnitPicks circular Acrylic needle starter pack arrived and I was just so pleased with everything in it. I'm now going to order a few pairs of thin wooden tips to go with it. No more snagging stitches or forever twisting tubing. I'm converted.They are certainly the Rolls Roy… Continue
Almost done with the leg of 2nd sock! It's recommended to use size 1 but, I used size 2 so there would be more stretch to accomendate a leg that suffers from swelling.
Time to retire. tom I should be able to finish the sock; casted on the gusset stitches tonight on first half. The lace design is easy and fast. Continue
Added by Gizzie on September 22, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Last night i didn't get as much knitting done as i'd hoped, we were too distracted discussing the wedding plans. We spent yesterdaylooking around at potential venues and found one that offers the chapel and reception with beautiful gardens all at the one place. So we are booking in for 3 July. This has provided me with new knitting project ideas. As it will be a winter wedding, and i will be wearing a sleeveless or strapless dress, I have already looked for patterns for a shrug and a lace shawl.… Continue
It's almost the end of the summer, and we need to clear out a little room in our warehouse for the heavier winter yarns, so we're having a one-week-only lace yarn sale! Lots and lots of colors are on sale in all of our lace yarn lines - Shimmer, Alpaca Cloud, Shadow, Shadow Kettle Dyed and Gloss Lace… Continue
My Cranberry FestivalFirst Shawl designed by Kay Meadors is off the needles
And the pattern surely does work, though I had my doubts at times, even to the delicate scalloped edge. The beads line up and most of the mistakes are not apparent at first look.
It is beautiful. Deep, rich reds in kettle dyed merino wool from sheep in Uruguay. Doesn't that sound exotic? I am surprised how light it is. And warm. Here in Wisconsin temperatures dropped this weekend so much that the furnace… Continue
Now several inches into the lace edge of the shawl I'm working on that is near complete, there is no doubt in my mind the designer would not recognize it. Some things I've learned,
1) how to pick up some dropped stitches and fix some mistakes,
2) how to add beads without pre-stringing them
Some things that still baffle me are how to avoid splitting these fine yarns when placing the beads, and how to fix "lace" when the stitches aren't matching up on the end. It isn't a complicate… Continue
I was so excited to be almost finished with my Essential Tank when I realized something........in the partial lace pattern repeat on each armhole side, I'd been making the two increases, but only one corresponding decrease, so my armhole edge slowly curved bac… Continue
When I first started reading the knitting blogs, I noticed people had a list of Projects they were working on. Not one or two but a list of them.
Now I'm one too. I've come over to the lovely expanse of Project Opportunities.
Though I'm still working on my Rib Warmer, that might have been done if I'd just worked on it alone, I'm enchanted by the new yarns. The beautiful colors and fibers, weights and how they come together in a fabric that I create. What could be more delicious than that?
Whi… Continue
I am new to this community so I thought Id let you get to know me better. My latest venture have been prayer shawls, I have now done three with two waiting in the wings. The fact that I have recently quit smoking has increased my productivity my leaps and bounds. You know what they say about idle hands;) I just recently inherited a vast amount of lace yarn on cones. Some of these cones have a whopping 6 miles of yarn on them, can you beleive it. So my natural course of action is to get into lace… Continue
When I first saw this pattern I was smitten as if it were a mythical siren. And like the sirens, the going has been kind of rocky. Good news is I've found other lures to capture my imagination.
But the beautiful SW shawl is calling. Its beads in a box waiting...
With a couple of corrections I might be sailing again. First, I believe I have the wrong weight yarn. I looked for the wool and silk locally, already dyed, and ended up with a sport weight (Medium Worsted). That's why the center looks… Continue
Yes, it's been one of those projects.
I mentioned the Atlanta "Secret" KAL which is supposed to be my first lace project. I'm having some .... challenges, and I've only started the swatch. First, I needed the find the right gauge. I am using fingering weight yarn because lace weight seemed a bit ambitious. I started with a size 4 needle (which was recommended), went down to a 2, and now I'm up to a 10. The many attempts I've made do look lacy. Unfortunately, I can't seem to hold onto the yarn o… Continue
I've heard a lot of people say they don't know how they would wear lace shawls, and that keeps them from knitting them. We think lace shawls are infinitely wearable (you don't even have to look like an old lady when you do wear them!), and here is Nina to demonstrate:
The shawls shown, in order, are:
Chinook Shawl - from the Lace Yarn Sampler Kits, shown in the Deep Sea colorway… Continue
I'm back from Franklin, TN. While I really enjoyed spending time with my parents, it is good to be home. Their house is just not designed for two rambunctious boys.
My mother and I agreed that knitting camp was something of a bust. Our plan was to take a bunch of knitting or fiber-related classes at the LYS. Unfortunately, few of the classes were offered at times convenient to us, and private lessons were more than we wanted to spend. I then borrowed EZ's DVD Knitting Workshop from the Atlanta… Continue
I love lace knitting, but I'm already the proud owner of four lace shawls, so I wanted to knit something else in lace. When I saw the Essential Tank Top by Laura Zukaite in the book Lace Style, I knew that was the next lace thing I HAD to knit! (It is image #1 under View More Images,… Continue
Yahoo! Finally finished with my modified version of the Lady's Circular Cape from Victorian Lace Today, knit in Shadow lace yarn in the Spring Green Heather color. It was a little boring to knit, which is why it t… Continue
I finally got started on a circular shawl (Girasole by Jared Flood) that I've been wanting to make and just can't get past the third round. I'm doing it with Shadow lace weight but now I'm thinking of getting a fingering weight yarn like Palette for this project since that's what the pattern uses, and using this for another project (something rectangular). I thought I understood the chart and that all I had to do was use lots of markers and not lose my place. I read all about knitting lace and w… Continue
Added by theblackhen on May 14, 2009 at 6:00am —
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In a previous post in October, knitting easy lace shawls was discussed. The pattern for knitting the shawl shown below came free from Knit Picks and can be found here.
I made two scarves from this pattern, and then got a bit more ambitious, using the same pattern, but repeating the lace row four times across instead of twice, resulting in a 16" by 83" shawl.
This pattern is versatile; according to the number of lace repeats, the shawl can be knitted as either a scarf, or by using more repeats,… Continue
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