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Casting on pair #4

By Marinemom, on July 24th, 2008%

This afternoon I cast on a pair of black lace socks using Knitpicks Essential yarn in Black Tweed. Not overly fond of the yarn at this point. It has been in my stash since last summer and I decided it was time to dig it out and knit . . . → Read More: Casting on pair #4 Read more »

Project #3 Finished

By Marinemom, on July 19th, 2008%

FInished with the Creature From the Black Lagoon Socks today The yarn is from Mackintosh Yarns and is wonderful to work with. Very soft and yet it has great stitch definition.

Back to my F2F shawl…was having trouble going back and forth between these two projects so I decided to stop on the shawl and . . . → Read More: Project #3 Finished Read more »

Ready for clue 2

By Marinemom, on July 17th, 2008%

I finished off clue 1 of the F2F Mystery shawl this morning just in time too. Clue 2 comes out tomorrow. I’m excited to see the actual patterning begin since the first clue was . . . → Read More: Ready for clue 2 Read more »

show and tell…take 2

By Marinemom, on July 15th, 2008%

Thank you Whichy for your help

This is my cast-on plus 5 rows of my F2F shawl. I’ve started the decrease rows now so it’s moving along a bit faster. Below is a close up of a lace repeat of the edging.

Here is sock #1 of The Creature From the BLack Lagoon socks:

And this is a . . . → Read More: show and tell…take 2 Read more »

Show and Tell

By Marinemom, on July 14th, 2008%

I finally have the photos of my F2F shawl cast-on and my 1st Creature From the Black Lagoon sock to share.

Well poo! I have the photos ready and when I click on the add media thingy I get a message that the website is down for maintenance. Guess I’ll try . . . → Read More: Show and Tell Read more »

making progress

By Marinemom, on July 12th, 2008%

I am now up to row 5 of the chart on my gajillion stitch cast-on shawl and the decreases are starting . If my math is correct, I will decrease 134 stitches on this row! By the end of this first clue there are only supposed to be 431 stitches on the needles which will make . . . → Read More: making progress Read more »

A new KAL

By Marinemom, on July 10th, 2008%

I must be crazy.

This evening I cast on another shawl. This one is the triangle shawl for the F2F KAL and to give us a bit of headstart, the designer posted the cast-on info for us this afternoon. Ready for this?? The number of stitches needed to be cast-on is a whopping 1093 :0

Yep, 1093. This . . . → Read More: A new KAL Read more »

Stash Enhancement

By Marinemom, on July 9th, 2008%

Well, I decided to go ahead and order the Folk Shawls book and while I was there, a few skeins of yarn happened to appear in my cart too. (Gotta get that free shipping ya know! ) Now I need to get back to my shawl in progress while . . . → Read More: Stash Enhancement Read more »

Folk Shawls Book

By Marinemom, on July 7th, 2008%

I have been over at Knit Picks looking for a book of shawl patterns to buy while the sale is still on. Has anyone knit any of the patterns from this book? I saw a few patterns that I thought looked very pretty from the photos that were on the site. So far I have restrained . . . → Read More: Folk Shawls Book Read more »

Pair #3 cast-on

By Marinemom, on July 6th, 2008%

Today I cast on this pair of socks. The pattern is called Creature From the Black Lagoon and the name of the yarn . . . → Read More: Pair #3 cast-on Read more »

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