Quantity Competitons – and their Winners (updated)

Drum roll please.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as we promised before the Summer Season began,  today we announce the results of our Quantity Competitions.

For the Competition for the Most Small Items Knit (in which we defined "Small Item" to mean an item that took at least 350 and no more than 700 yards to complete), we had 14 . . . → Read More: Quantity Competitons – and their Winners (updated) Read more »

bye bye summer

This has been interesting. To keep track of lace work for a summer. Well, I guess I was faster and more prolific in my brain than in actuality. But I did manage to polish off 7193yds of yarn/thread for 6 finished projects and 2 unfinished projects.

1260.0 yards peacock
470.0 yards swallowtail
2461.0 yards rosa romantic
275.4 yards  erbstullgrund
455.4 yards . . . → Read More: bye bye summer Read more »

And the Prize Processing Goes forward…

Greetings one and all.

I’m sitting here with my spreadsheets and all the entry forms, making sure that I have all of the entries in, and that my data is accurate.  For clarification, and so that I really do award the prizes to the competition winners, I’d like to verify the following things:

The following folks once stated . . . → Read More: And the Prize Processing Goes forward… Read more »

The end my friend

First of all I want to say how much I have enjoyed the Summer of Lace. It has been really great and I accomplished more than I could have imagined! I have learned so much about lace knitting, what I like and what I don’t, patterns and yarn. I have learned how to push through and . . . → Read More: The end my friend Read more »

Goddess Knits Mystery shawl

I finished it just in time! I also added another 1000 yads since the last time I posted, bringing to a little over . . . → Read More: Goddess Knits Mystery shawl Read more »

Eyelet Rib Socks

I am really glad I had the time to get these finished. I didn’t want any unfinished lace sitting around. I’m ready to start holiday knitting! These are Eyelet rib socks in Shepherd Sock, color Mother Lode 284 yds. I’ll be back tomorrow for my . . . → Read More: Eyelet Rib Socks Read more »

The Finish Line!

Thank goodness the deadline wasn’t 9/21! I finished my final project (Icarus) that evening and it’s blocking now.

My final report is:

441 yds knit on the “Wrapped in Care shawl”

540 yds knit on the “Juliet”

854 yds knit on “Icarus”

259 yds knit on “Noro Zetor Shawl”

50 yds knit on “Frill” (only 50 yds worth of this was . . . → Read More: The Finish Line! Read more »

What I’ve done in the last weeks

Hello,

since my last post I only finished the Anniversary Mystery Shawl from Goddessknits.

I needed 1480 m yarn for it.

I haven’t finished three projects:

First the Vkanis Sunlord from MMario. I’m knitting this shawl as doily with very thin yarn.

Till now I used 1250 m yarn for it. I’m now on round 223 of 320 plus an edging.

Then . . . → Read More: What I’ve done in the last weeks Read more »

Over and Out

I can’t believe summer is over and fall is here already.  Although I did not meet all my lacey goals I’m happy with what I did get done – I’ve just been really bad with updating anything lately.  Sooo with that…

My most recently finished item is my Melon Shawl done in Dream In Color Baby.

and my . . . → Read More: Over and Out Read more »

One last FO

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 »