Seasons of Lace

And… for the last of the Round One Raffle Prizes ….

For Lace Knit with the Knitters Own Handspun (for which we had five entries from three knitters), yarnpro is our winner! She gets a $25.00 Gift Certificate from

(and in case lotion isn’t her thing, Aubrey also has great stuff to help take care of yarnpro’s spinning wheel too!).

She’ll also be receiving the Paws in the Catnip pattern from JoyKnits

Then, for Doilies, those miracles of lace knit on uber-tiny needles, (for which we had four entries from three knitters)  knitsbyteri is our winner.  She’ll be getting a cone of yarn from

She has her  choice between Article 2025 (Rayon PetalSpun, 100% Rayon, Sport Weight, approximately 1680 yards per pound) Article 74C (100% Mercerized Cotton Size 10, approximately 2700 yards per cone – in choice of colors shown in Article 74P ), Article 950C (100% Cotton yarn in 3 Ply Baby Fashion weight, approximately 1680 yards per cone) or Article 984C (100% Cotton yarn in 4 Ply Fashion weight, approximately 1680 yards per cone) or any other 1 pound cone of yarn they have!

She will also receive a pdf pattern from Baxterknits

And finally, for Bulky Lace (for which we had 11 entries from 6 knitters)… our prize goes to birgit!

She will be receiving  125g (nearly 1500 m) of indigo dyed lace-weight yarn, subtly dyed varying hues with indigo exclusively for the Season of Lace group from Andie at Renaissance Dyeing and a pdf pattern from Bad Cat Designs

There will be more Raffles…. more Random Joy…. and of course, Judged Competitions, and soon, a chance to vote for the Viewers’ Choice Award!!

well, technically, it’s a blanket, not a wrap.  But this is my last FO for the season (and my first Christmas present finished and crossed of the list!)

The specs: Hemlock Ring Blanket, Eco-Wool (1.25 skeins), size 10 needle.

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

Cast-on on Monday:

I hit the feather-and-fan section yesterday.  I’m already almost 3 repeats past where I was when I took this photo.

(The specs, for those of you playing along at home: Hemlock Ring Blanket, as adapted by Jared Flood of BrooklynTweed; Cascade Eco-Wool; size 10 needles)

I love this pattern.  I think it’s going to be link Pringles–you can’t have just one.

Just a few quick pictures now that I have the doily on circulars.

This was a project originally started for Ravelympics, but it didn’t get finished in time. I knitted this project everywhere I went, trying to finish, but oh, well (18 days). Unfortunately, theres a bit of an odd stain on a couple of parts of this table topper. I tried an Oxyclean bath, but there’s still splotches on it. (does that count as a tragedy?)

This is knit w/ a little more than 2 balls of DMC Cordonnet thread #100 using US000 needles.

Btw–the pattern is Lyra, by Herbert Niebling– can be purchased from Lacis in Berkeley. It’ a fun knit. I highly recommend it. Total yardage? 991yds.

This is a sort of a doily/table topper from an old Burda magazine ( E 903) called “Goldregen” It’s another Niebling pattern.  The thread I’m using is a Habu orgazine degummed indigo dyed Silk, 1,400 yards/2 ounces. I’m using US 0000 needles from Lacis in Berkley CA and I’m on row 48. You can’t really see the pattern yet but I will try to post a better picture once there is enough to go onto circular needles.  If anyone is thinking of getting some of this thread, you might want to consider paying the extra money to have it wound onto a cone. My sister bought me this beautiful thread at a Stiches West so no cone option available at that time, but it was very difficult to wind this into a single ball and I had to break it half way because of a tangle. I’ve heard from others that they were unable to wind it at all so had to throw out the entire lot.  It has been suggested that putting the swift on it’s side (like a ferris wheel) helps to unwind the skein smoothly so I may try that on my second skein. That’s right. I have two of them. In order to keep the silk from unwinding once it was in a ball, I have each encased in the leg of a cast-off pair of nylon ankle socks.  That holds the ball of silk enough so I can unwind enough thread to use as I knit without getting tangled up.  This silk has a slightly “crisp” feel to it but is still very slippery. Dropping a stitch using this would be bad. Very very bad.

When looking at patterns on ravelry, I fell in love with one of the patterns by Herbert Neilbling and wanted to get it. According to their links it was available in three different books - all in foreign languages and two of which I couldn’t find. The remaining book, Knitting Lace Designs of the “Modern: Mode, Bk. 2, by Naoko Ichida was the only one I could find (I bought it from Lacis) which is in Japanese. It did come with a translation of the different stitches but I needed a test to see if I could indeed handle the bigger pattern by trying a smaller, simpler one first.  This was the result.

The answer to my question is yes so now I will have to try the big one and be a little more careful with the pattern itself.  Oh yes, I started and finished this while watching the olympics yesterday.

Hello,

I think, I should show some photos of my lace projects.

From July 1 until July  8 I knitted this scarf. It’s my own version of feather and fan. I needed 360 yards for it.

From July 14  to 17 I knitted this bookmark. It’s my own pattern. You’ll find it on my homepage. I needed 27 of very thin thread for it.

From July 10. to august 1. I knitted the stole with arabesque edging and middle. This is also my own design. The english translation you’ll find on ravelry. I needed 700 yards for it.

At the moment I’m knitting the goddessknits anniverary shawl. I’m on the edging. But I have only a photo from chart 3. I knitted chart 1 A; 2 C; 3 D and 4 B.

And on July 17 a began to knit the Vkandis sunlord by MMario as doily with thin Valdani cotton thread 3. Here is the newest photo of chart 5.

Best wishes Utlinde

I cast on for Rosa Romantic on July 13, it’s a Niebling pattern from Lena magazine.

This is the progress so far, I’ve knitted the first round of leaves and am working on the second.

The yarn is 100% cashmere from Colourmart, in teal. Lovely stuff.