or Tale of Two Shawls I know for some people the hardest part of finishing a project is weaving in ends. I won’t claim to like this particular step, but it’s not the hardest thing for me to do. I have a yarn needle sitting among the things on my… Read More »Throwing a Winter Block Party
I actually got past those blasted triangles only a few days after having to start them all over again. I guess the 2nd time through I was a bit quicker. Maybe it was sheer willpower to get past them. Now I am happily onto the rest of the border. Let… Read More »Whew! Only had to knit it twice
I finished my WestKnits “Clawed” shawl about a week ago. It was definitely an excellent project to work while integrating a kitten into the household. All the following made it easy to put down quickly if a kitten was getting himself into trouble, whether knitting related or other trouble. simple… Read More »A good kitten project
Back in 2018, one of my yarn buys was the Unplanned Peacock morphic colorway “Strawberry Fields”. It’s been hanging on my bedroom wall ever since, until it was bumped from the wall in my enthusiasm to hang up my needlefelt sunset. It’s the last if the Unplanned Peacock I bought… Read More »Morphing plans
I was going to say “last weekend I blocked my shawl” but then I realized its Wednesday and thus it was actually two weekends ago. Oops. So on the last weekend in April I blocked my Fireworks Festival shawl: And it was a good thing I got started first thing… Read More »Blocked and in Use
My Fireworks Festival Shawl is finished! Ok, so it needs the ends woven in and a good blocking to straighten the top edge. But all the knitting is complete and it’s bound off and I cannot wait to finish it. Unfortunately, blocking will need to wait until tomorrow. Such things… Read More »Bombs Bursting in Air
We’ve had more sunny days recently, which has been nice for several reason, one of which will benefit you, dear reader. The cat is happy because sunshine + slightly warmer temperatures means we’re willing to leave the balcony door cracked open for her during significant chunks of the day. She… Read More »Taking advantage of sunshine
Today we had a lovely sunny day, so I pulled my camera out for some pictures. First up, I finally managed some decent images of the lovely Ocean Rain yarn I finished in February: I am incredibly happy with how it turned out, and it makes me happy to see… Read More »Sunshine and Fireworks
Some of you may be wondering* “What happened to that Fireworks Festival shawl you were so excited to start?” Gauge happened. Or rather, didn’t happen. Normally, I’m a bit slap-dash about shawl gauge. If the fabric looks good, I’m happy. But this pattern is pretty dependent on finishing the whole… Read More »Gauge Games
I realized I never posted photos of my finished shawls. First, from earlier this fall, the fully blocked Dionne Shawl: Which I luckily remembered to photograph in full before I shipped it off to the lucky recipient – my mother-in-law – as an early birthday/Christmas present. Both are in December,… Read More »A little catch up…
