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Price arrival!

By birgit, on November 19th, 2008%

Here are my beautiful price yarns from Andie at Renaissance Dyeing and Freyalyn

Cobweb…. Propably my next challenge for Winter Of Lace Either of these might end up as the “Fern garden scarf” that Andrea at Bad Cat Designs graciously donated.

THANK YOU ALL, now I get to continue knitting without running out of food for . . . → Read More: Price arrival! Read more »

another little something

By birgit, on November 5th, 2008%

I was actually wondering if I should now knit anything else BUT lace before WOL but I can’t seem to stop myself….

Tudor Rose by Anne Hanson at Knitspot, presented by one of the birches on our yard.

Hooray for all the winners in previous posts, see y’all at the Winter of lace.

Now I´m off to knit some . . . → Read More: another little something Read more »

swallowtail finished

By birgit, on September 26th, 2008%

started during sol08, finished yesterday (thanks o mighty . . . → Read More: swallowtail finished Read more »

Finale

By birgit, on September 20th, 2008%

Here they are merged together, my accomplishments for SOL2008. A total of 9 . . . → Read More: Finale Read more »

I consider this my last fo for sol08 as I don´t think my yarn will arrive tomorrow so that i could finish my beaded swallowtail. So here she is, Alhambra. Thanks everyone, this has been an adventure. Hopefully we´ll meet at winter of lace if there is one . . . → Read More: final fo Read more »

a little nothing

By birgit, on September 14th, 2008%

Remember I got stuck with the test knit? Remember I did run out of yarn with the following wip? You know what helps? Yarn shopping. And then pattern shopping. So here we go again: Alhambra by Anne Hanson at Knitspot. (No it´s not the only pattern I bought) The yarn is from Old maiden Aunt and . . . → Read More: a little nothing Read more »

next co

By birgit, on September 10th, 2008%

My test knit is on hold as the pattern needs some altering and I decided to cast on a new project to keep my hands busy. I chose the Swallowtail shawl and decided to use the leftovers from Julias previous test knit. Here´s the beginning

And today…. I´ve run out of yarn and the shawl look like . . . → Read More: next co Read more »

next project

By birgit, on September 6th, 2008%

I´ve casted on for my next project, although I don´t think this will be finished in time as it is quite big, over 1000 yards. It´s another test knit for Julia and the pattern seems nice although there are lots and lots of nupps. If anyone has a good trick to manage nupps with 7 loops . . . → Read More: next project Read more »

Blue skyes

By birgit, on September 1st, 2008%

I´ve been lucky to get an opportunity to test knit a pattern and that´s what I´ve been doing. Here´s what turned out:

Used appr. 400 yds of zephyr 2/18, 3.5 mm needles and the finished measurements are 150 x 20 cm.

Edit: more pics and pattern url:

The pattern is called Cathedral by Julia Riede and it´s available on . . . → Read More: Blue skyes Read more »

look what the ravelympics made me do!

By birgit, on August 22nd, 2008%

I didn´t mean to participate in Ravelympics, in fact I was totally ignorant until one day before the start. Then something hit me and I went and joined. And here´s what turned out, laminaria. Still blocking, will post better pics later. Yarn iZephyr by Jaggerspun, colourway Vanilla and it used up 74 grams, a total . . . → Read More: look what the ravelympics made me do! Read more »

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