Melfina the Blue « Seasons of Lace

Ooh, look, shiny prizes

By Melfina the Blue, on November 3rd, 2008%

I give you my prize yarn. The color’s actually pretty good for being taken at 10 pm indoors.

I plan to make a circular shawl out of some of it. Anyone care to suggest patterns and/or color combos? The balled yarn will be a scarf, which I will start tomorrow during the elections.

Oh, and everyone who’s American . . . → Read More: Ooh, look, shiny prizes Read more »

One last FO

By Melfina the Blue, on September 20th, 2008%

I finished my Diamond Latttice scarf this morning. Sadly, I will not be able to post a fo picture. My mom put the camera someplace safe and now has no idea where it is. Here’s a random picture of it earlier…

Anyway, 350 yrds down, bringing me to a grand total of either…(FOs only)

694 + 350 . . . → Read More: One last FO Read more »

Ennui of the knitting kind

By Melfina the Blue, on September 9th, 2008%

So, you know when you’ve got things on the needles and they aren’t going overly well, and other yarn and patterns come calling?

Yup, that’s where I am. I cast on for the Half Square in Trinity Stitch shawl on Wed, and on Sunday came to a horrible conclusion. This shawl’s worked from a side edge in, . . . → Read More: Ennui of the knitting kind Read more »

Lace at DragonCon

By Melfina the Blue, on August 29th, 2008%

?I don’t really go on vacation, but I do go to DragonCon (biggest Sci-fi and Fantasy Con in the SE USA). It is crazy and bizarre and fun, and this year I decided to add to the bizarre by…

making random people hold my lace scarf in progress and taking their picture (ala the Yarn Harlot and . . . → Read More: Lace at DragonCon Read more »

I have nothing to say, so look at the pretty pictures instead

By Melfina the Blue, on August 18th, 2008%

Well, a week of being sick has surprisingly resulted in much knitting. Mostly mindless. Since I have nothing interesting to say, I give you pictures instead. That would be my original pattern shawl, and yes, I know the lace is lost in the color. I’m almost done with the second ball of Silky Malabrigo, with 2-3 . . . → Read More: I have nothing to say, so look at the pretty pictures instead Read more »

Slightly overambitious, just slightly

By Melfina the Blue, on August 12th, 2008%

Does anyone else ever feel like they’ve gone completely and utterly insane?

I’ve been knitting since January, right? I’ve finished a total of three lace pieces, two scarves and a shawl. And now, what am I doing?

Designing my own lace triangular shawl and knitting it. So far, I’ve gone through 160 yards of yarn, increased to 7 . . . → Read More: Slightly overambitious, just slightly Read more »

My first shawl (1388 yrds)

By Melfina the Blue, on August 5th, 2008%

It is done (or rather it was done on Saturday, but I had to wait till I weighed it to know how much yarn I used).

That is 1388 yards of lace (according to the shipping scale at work and my l33t conversion skills). I held the yarn double throughout, so mods, you may want to halve . . . → Read More: My first shawl (1388 yrds) Read more »

Ooh, pictures

By Melfina the Blue, on July 29th, 2008%

So, I finally got around to taking (bad) pictures of my new WIPs.

First, the Diamond Lattice Scarf (from Victorian Lace Today, and I believe the pattern’s called something like Scarf with Open and Closed Diamonds). I’m knitting this on size 5(US) instead of the recommended size 7s, so it’s far less lacy-looking than the original.

Then we . . . → Read More: Ooh, pictures Read more »

An Interesting Weekend

By Melfina the Blue, on July 21st, 2008%

Okay, so this weekend was extremely interesting, knitting-wise. First, I put my shawl stitches on waste yarn and pulled it off the needle. It’s 68 inches across at the top. 68 inches! (and that’s the first time I’ve ever pulled a WIP off the needles to do that. Talk about nerve-wracking)

Then I tried it on, and . . . → Read More: An Interesting Weekend Read more »

My first finished object and another cast-on

By Melfina the Blue, on July 15th, 2008%

Important lesson learned. It is really depressing to figure out how much you have left to knit on a triangular shawl started from the bottom point. Sigh. I have ~1400 square inches left to knit to get to a 4 ft long middle back (out of a total of ~1700) which means I have 82% of . . . → Read More: My first finished object and another cast-on Read more »

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