Seasons of Lace

We know who won, but what do they get?

Luscious Yarn of course!

We have two generous donors to thank for the Judged Competition Prizes:

Chris at Briar Rose Fibers will be sending one hank of Angel Face (2500 luscious yards of 100% alpaca lace-weight) to each of two winners.  I have no pictures — because the winners get to choose their colorway from whatever is currently available (or… acquire any other yarn of equal value).

Tina at Blue Moon Fiber Arts sent three luscious prizes:

one skein of Geisha (70 Kid Mohair/ 20% Mulberry Silk/ 10% Nylon, 8oz. / 226g, 995yds / 910m)

(ya know… that not black color? it’s greener in real life (and on my other computer screen).

Anyway… they’ve also provide one skein of Laci (100% Extra Fine 80’s Merino, 8oz. / 226g, 1,750 yds / 1,600m)

AND one skein of Silk Thread II (100% silk, 3.5oz. / 99g, 1,250 yds / 1,143m).

We used our friend the random number generator to assign the prizes…. but I’ve also secretly polled the winners, without revealing the actual yarns, just in case there were strong preferences (like, say, mohair allergies).  In the end, it made no difference.

For her Brilliant Achievements in Conquering Lace Disasters, tinker  will receive a skein of AngelFace in her choice of colors (or, whatever yarn of equal value she wants).  We hope that she’ll post when it arrives!

For her Thorough Documentation of Lace on Vacation, ShadowDancer will receive the other skein of AngelFace!*

For her tour de force performance with a  Lace Extravaganza, lacefreak will receive a lovely skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Silk Thread II in Midsummer Night, because she plans to knit something thin for Winter of Lace..

For her artful presentation of Lace on Display, littlelena will receive a skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Laci in Blue Moonstone

For her brilliant and subtle marriage of yarn to pattern creating a perfect Lace Partnership, thislittlepiggyknits will receive a skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Geisha in Thraven (I love this colorway!)

To the winners …. please be sure I have your addresses so that I can get your prizes to you!!

Meanwhile…

Don’t go away!  Coming up, we have the Viewers’ Choice Award (for which the polls are still open — don’t forget to VOTE - there are over 125 of us eligible to vote for this… let’s not disenfranchise ourselves) and…..

MORE Raffle Prizes!!!

and

a chance to help us make this even more fun when Winter of Lace opens later this year… AND….

One final round of RANDOM JOY!

(and of course, any additional lace knitting you wish to post, and updates from our prize winners).

*and yes… that’s me getting some AngelFace.  I’m more than a little pleased about that result!)

For once, I’ve had a successful KAL!  Despite past tradition of not knitting along, I manged to knit lace (and only lace!) successfully all summer.  I even managed to sneak in one last completion:

Pattern: Pear and Trellis (Knitspot)

Yarn:Colourmart Cashmere/Silk 3/45NM Laceweight, worked with two strands together

Needles: 3.0mm/ U.S. 2-1/2

In addition to two other completed projects, I also started, frogged, restarted, refrogged, restarted (etc.) two other projects, which might actually get back on the needles…sometime.  Earlier, I finally started Bee Fields (also Knitspot), but, distracted by my Ravelympics entry, didn’t make it out of the second (first? my memory’s foggy on this one) chart.  As it stands today, I’m not sure it’s much further than my previous posting.

So, in sum total, I manged…erm…not very many yards, at least compared to some!

Previously submitted, Mare ocsuro had 815 yards.

Of a total 287 yards for Pear & Trellis, I knit 180 during Summer of Lace.

Elm Row was 268 yards

And Bee Fields, so far stands at ~ 165 yards.

For a grand (ahem) total of 1428 yards.  Not exactly impressive…but if you count all the frogging and reknitting…actually, I’m really happy with what I accomplished.  Now onto a fall for finishing! (And sweaters. Which need finished.)

Here they all are, my summer of lace last finished objects.  A lot of knitting, and I did some non-lace things as well, and started a lace throw, too!

And these that I’ve already gifted…

For a total of twelve small lace projects.  Whew!

List:

1 Chenille face cloth

2. Mikado Rivolo (scarf)

3. Gusty aegean (scarf

4. Blue scarf

5. Silky Omo (scarf

6. Squeezey Birches (stole)

7. Ocean Breezes (scarf)

8. Little headband

9. Kid merino mist (scarf)

10. Fishbone cowl

11. Japanese feather stole

12. Inverno shawl

One more finished project to sneak in!  It’s Langsgalid Barur.

This was a fun and easy project, knit with Silk Garden Sock Yarn.  I may be ready to knit something other than lace though!

I didn’t quite get this finished for the Ravelympics deadline, and it took me even longer to block it, but my stole, inspired by the sheen of the yarn and the ideas of water and the sea, is finally finished.

Pattern: My own, composed of motifs from the Barbara Walker stich dictionaries
Yarn: Briar Rose Fibers Sea Pearl (merino/tencel) - very nice to work with and lovely sheen.
Needle: 3.5 mm/ U.S. 4
New techniques: Russian join, sewn bind off
Yards knit: 815
More pictures are at my blog and on Ravelry .

Okay, they’d be much more glamorous if I’d found a more glamourous looking model, or done something elegant with my hair or….  but whatever, here is Daedelus … free from the blocking board.

I think it looks rather nice simply draping the way it does when you’re not doing bird imitations…

I also like the way it looks from the front, even if it does expose that I didn’t quite get the blocking balanced, and that bit up top where it looks like one side is stretched more than the other — was dead on right.

So.  There you have it.

Daedelus.  Originally designed by me for Just Our Yarns Aziza….

Yarn in this version: Jaggerspun Highland Heather 3/8 - ~ 1050 yards (I weighed it)

Beads in this version: ~ 1700 (I counted 1696) size 6 seed beads.

Pattern to be available as soon as I finish the various arguments with the word processor and the charting software so that they’ll talk to each other …..  and at a discount until the beta testers have finished their shawls.

My daughter ran to tell my that Barbie had finally consented to marry the Prince. It had been a sore trial for the Prince as Barbie had even moved out of the country one time to escape his advances. As it was the wedding was happening today and she really wanted a knit wedding dress (please, please, please!). No, I do not have time to knit a Barbie dress, I have other things to do. When my six year old said she would watch the baby and do the laundry so I would have time to knit, I sighed my big sigh and went to the store to buy yarn. ( How can you have over 250,000 yds. of yarn and still not have the right kind?)

This is my interpretation of this pattern, knit with Bernat baby yarn (76 yds.). I made it longer and added pearls to dress it up a bit. I knit this in secret because I don’t want my daughter to know she can manipulate her mama, but she was very excited and surprised when she saw it. Of course now she thinks all Barbie’s sisters need a dress too.

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 of 819 yards.

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I’m finally back!!  I didn’t fall off the face of the earth, but my computer did.  My internet died and it ended up being the blessed computer.  So I now have a wonderful new one!!  That being said….. it must have been my guardian angel frying that computer!!  I had enough time to finish my Ravelympics entry.

First,  I finished off my MS 9 with a crochet edging with tiny crystal beads.  It’s not perfect….. but I think it doesn’t look too bad.

Now, the really big knitting!!  I got to row 82 with my size 3 needles on my Lyra and decided if I wanted to finish in the same yarn I started with I’d go frogging!!  So I recast on with size 0’s and it really turned out well.  2000 yards and almost square!!

I think I like this picture since it shows how much blocking can turn an ugly bug into a butterfly!!

Carla