Winners …. Winners…. and More Winners!

It’s time to wrap up this adventure (so we can start looking forward to the new one).

So… it’s with a lot of pride, a certain amount of joy, and a tinge of sadness, that I present to you the following awards today:  a couple of Raffle Prizes for our most popular raffle categories, a little bit . . . → Read More: Winners …. Winners…. and More Winners! Read more »

Final entries

I see that there is a final competition entry form.  We’re getting so close, what is supposed to be done with that form?  Do we attach the htmls from all our entries to that one form, . . . → Read More: Final entries Read more »

Schizophrenia

Does anyone else have a love/hate relationship with lace?

While I am new to this, I find the following scenario being repeated over and over and over again:

Casting on with lace weight yarn for the first time, there was immediate intimidation.  A few rows into the project, my confidence began to grow and I thought:  “I love . . . → Read More: Schizophrenia Read more »

next project

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 »

Favorite yarn?

I’ll be taking a trip to the “big city” (Portland, OR) next weekend and will have the opportunity to visit a few yarn shops. I will also be going to a couple of fiber festivals this summer and will be surrounded by lots of yarn. I was wondering if anyone has a favorite lace or sock . . . → Read More: Favorite yarn? Read more »

Testing and blocking out errors

Testing pictures again

This is a picture (hopefully) of my Icarus shawl progress.

One problem I’ve had with Icarus is that periodically I screw something up and I then ladder down the stitches and  reknit them back up but this has led to several areas where the mistakes when they are fixed look like this:

See the place where . . . → Read More: Testing and blocking out errors Read more »

Checking in

First of all, let’s test this picture thing:

This is an old picture of Swallowtail (that isn’t much farther along now than in this picture) but I didn’t want to go to the trouble of doing new pictures if they aren’t going to show up in the post.

I’ve been pretty diligently working on Icarus. So much so . . . → Read More: Checking in Read more »

Fly away home….

I´ve finished the first sock, got inspired of the red yarn and let the stole sleep for a while and cast on for Fly away home-socks. Now the first is finished, isn´t it gorgeous? The yarn is Chakra from The knitting goddess.

Did I say I love it? Hope I don´t get ill with sss (second sock . . . → Read More: Fly away home…. Read more »

Folk Shawls Book

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 »

What are nupps?

Just wondering–I’ve been coming across them, without a definition, in my lace reading, and figured one of you could give me a . . . → Read More: What are nupps? Read more »