By nolaboard, on September 16th, 2008%
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 »
By JustdotChristina, on September 6th, 2008%
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 »
By birgit, on September 6th, 2008%
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 »
By littlelena, on July 26th, 2008%
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 »
By escr, on July 15th, 2008%
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 »
By escr, on July 14th, 2008%
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 »
By birgit, on July 13th, 2008%
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 »
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 »
By sligo, on June 30th, 2008%
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 »