Seasons of Lace

I finished it just in time! I also added another 1000 yads since the last time I posted, bringing to a little over 1600 yds.

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 I’m knitting the Secret of the stole 3 from Nauticalknitter.

I’m now at the beginning of hint 6 and used 750 m yarn for it.

And at least but not last I’m testknitting the Klabauter Mystery from Monika Eckert. I have nearly finished it and used 980 m yarn till now. I only can show it until clue 2, because it’s a mystery.

Best wishes Utlinde

I know I just showed you clue five, but I wanted to get clue six finished to show you before the Summer of Lace ended. I usually divide the clues up by the number of days I have to work on it, so doing the entire clue in one day was a bit harsh. At any rate here is my final Secret of the Stole clue for Summer of Lace. I’ve used 792 yds of Knit Picks Gloss in Celery.

I haven’t gotten past clue one on Mystery Stole 4. I don’t think I will be working on it before tomorrow so my final total is 70 yds of Knit Picks Shadow in Juniper.

Here’s my last update post, with yardage, which obviously does not really matter as far as the competition goes, but I’m feeling pretty happy with how much I’ve accomplished. I am homeschooling the older two of my four young children and working on top of that, so the idea that any knitting at all got done is a great source of pleasure, and that I finished two gifts and a project for myself is really terrific. Here’s what I did:

Goddess Knits Anniversary Shawl, 1410 yards

Coveted Lace Skirt, my design: 900 yards

Goddess Knits Mystery Shawl #9  1050 yards

Bad Cat Designs Summer Sampler Study: 1400 yards

and a pathetic photo of four works in progress that have about 500 yards in them:

Storyteller Socks, Veil of Isis, Anniversary Shawl, and Mystery Stole 4:

So, I count 5,260 yards total.

I want to thank everyone for sharing their projects. I have gotten so many great ideas from so many of you. I have about a hundred pages to finish working on tonight, but I’m hoping to get a chance tomorrow to review more projects so as to nominate my favorites for special prizes–there are so many great projects! Hope to see you all again in the winter!

And thanks so much to the moderators and sponsors for making this happen!

My test knit is on hold as the pattern needs some altering and I decided to cast on a new project to keep my hands busy. I chose the Swallowtail shawl and decided to use the leftovers from Julias previous test knit. Here´s the beginning

And today…. I´ve run out of yarn and the shawl look like this:

Budding lace completed, lily of the valley completed, lacy edge completed, only the last scalloped edging to go (14 rows) and no yarn. Sigh. The good thing is that there´s more of this coming thanks to a generous prize doner here on SOL2008. The bad part is that it´s coming from the States so it´ll propably take up to 8 weeks until I get it. So this won´t be finished in time. sigh again. Well,  at least I tried. Maybe I should start yet another project?

I couldn’t resist this one, though I did try. Here is the Mystery Stole 4, from Pink Lemon Twist. I’m working on the second part now, and hope to be done both in time for clue 2. The yarn is Malabrigo laceweight in Sunset, which I absolutely adore. In fact, as I’m knitting I keep thinking of calling the yarn store and asking them to order a bag for me. I have a design in mind, and I know I couldn’t get tired of this color. I am halfway through the edging of the BadCatDesigns sampler, so when that’s done I’ll be able to get on with my other projects, but really, this is so much fun, it has to take precedence!

Do you know what this is?

This is the last bead.  When this bead goes on, Daedelus will have all of its beads.  All of them.

And here is that bead in place….

Yes…. tonight, I finished knitting Daedelus..

Before the bath, she stretched out on the living room floor…

Then she nested in to his/har bath… (I’m still conflicted.  I think of Daedelus as a masculine name, but shawls feel female — especially pink ones! with pinkish beads — and after all this intense time together "it" just doesn’t cut it).

And then, she stretched out on the new puzzle block mats I bought to be SURE I’d have enough space to block a full size shawl….(I used 25 squares (though one of them could have been omitted — and in this configuration, that means that the shawl is more than six feet from wing tip to wing tip).

After I took this, I noticed that the sides weren’t even.  So….I grabbed Mr. Spray, and re-stretched the left side to let him stretch his wing just a tad more.

Glamour shots when Daedulus is dry….. (after all, even newborn flies wait until their wings are dry, we can hardly ask more from someone as lovely as this).

THANK YOU JOAN!  for making Daedelus possible!

Here is my beginning of Mystery Stole 4. This is another heavily beaded stole, so fun all around. I’m using Knit Picks’ Shadow in Juniper. You can’t see it yet, but there are lots of tiny, beautiful green beads on there also.

I finished the first of the Lacy Mitts for I’m designing for my daughter.

I also have the pattern all written out for the left mitt, and have worked out just what needs to be done to reverse it for the right mitt.  (I’ve also made great progress in a non-lace design and some simple socks for DH.

But that stops now.  All this progress will come to a screeching halt.

Because this came in the mail today.

At last, Daedelus can be finished!!  THANK YOU Aboca Beads .

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.