Seasons of Lace

Here are a few more of the Round One Raffle Prizes:

For the Self-Designed Lace Raffle, we had 24 entries from 11 knitters.  I had hopes here, and got Whichy to do the drawing, but NightlyKnitter won the first round.  She’ll be receiving 8 ounces of hand dyed lace weight from

I’m not sure what the colorway is… and hope that Nightly Knitter will show us what she receives!

Nightly knitter will also be getting a pdf pattern of her choice from Baxterknits

Also receiving an eight ounce skein from A Colorful Yarn will be … the winner of our First Round Raffle for Large Lace (who is one of 6 knitters, who between them made 9 entries to this raffle). Our winner? tinker!

Along with her yarn, she’ll be receiving a pdf pattern from Bad Cat Designs

I can’t wait to see the pictures. (Okay, I’ve seen some of her dye work — and I’m totally biased).

In the First Round Raffle for Beaded Lace (for which we had 28 entries from 14 knitters), sligo was our Winner.

She’ll be choosing her favorite of the newly dyed lace-weight yarn from

And of course, sligo will need a pattern to knit, so we’ll be sending her one from Fiber Dancers’ Design Studio

Tomorrow, we should be able to finish up the first round winners…. Are you ready?

I finally finished my Bird’s Nest Stole from Folk Shawls. Even though it took quite a bit less yarn than the pattern called for, it still seemed to take forever to knit. It’s knit from Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in Iris Heather. 2095 yds.  Size 21″ x 79″. Nice and big.

Here I go again.  I started another project!  It’s the Firmaments Lace Shawl, a pattern available on WEBS.  I’m using Schaeffer Anne in Midnight.  I knit a bunch, frogged a bunch, and now I’m back on track.  I didn’t realize that I had to knit a row between each lace row in the first pattern.  Duh!

I magic looped it until it was big enough.  This one could take a while!  It also has a knit on lace border, something I’ve never done.  I’m thinking it’s about time.

I thought I had better check in to add my lace content to our blog. I am still knitting away on my Snowflakes in Cedarwoods shawl. I’m currently on row 17 of section G which means I still have a long way to go! I have 776 stitches on the needles and my rows are going slower. I’ll post a photo soon, my lace looks like a blueish white blob and I will not see the fruit of my labor until I take it off the needle and block. It’s been a long hot summer in my house!  Alison

I’m on the home stretch on an afghan  for a friend of mine.  I had the 4 white strips done before seasons of lace and have completed the yellow and half of the green now.  I’m using Debbie Bliss cotton cashmere (furnished by my friend) and hate it!!  It’s got a wonderful feel, but it splits like an Olympic gymnist!!  I haven’t used a Debbie Bliss that I’ve liked because of just that.  I know that lots of folks love this yarn, I just don’t!!  I use about 1 1/2 skiens for the green strips and 4-5 skiens for the yellow, so I’ve got about 2000 yards done since SOL started.

  This picture doesn’t even start to get the colors right, but I guess you can get the drift.  I’ve got 4 more green strips to do then it gets pieced together!! 

Carla

Who knew that someone so out of shape could win a gold medal.  In 16 days (I even finished a day ahead) I knit the Flirty Ruffles Shawl .  It’s the first time I’ve ever knit with 100% cashmere.  I’m hooked!

I literally bound off, stood up and had Honey take a picture.  There were needles lying on the couch smoking!!!

I’m not a monogamous knitter, so this is very uncharacteristic of me.  This would have taken me years to finish if I hadn’t had Ravelympics to urge me on!  Now I have to look around and see how many other lace projects I have going.  What shall I work on next???

I’m finally back!!  I didn’t fall off the face of the earth, but my computer did.  My internet died and it ended up being the blessed computer.  So I now have a wonderful new one!!  That being said….. it must have been my guardian angel frying that computer!!  I had enough time to finish my Ravelympics entry.

First,  I finished off my MS 9 with a crochet edging with tiny crystal beads.  It’s not perfect….. but I think it doesn’t look too bad.

Now, the really big knitting!!  I got to row 82 with my size 3 needles on my Lyra and decided if I wanted to finish in the same yarn I started with I’d go frogging!!  So I recast on with size 0’s and it really turned out well.  2000 yards and almost square!!

I think I like this picture since it shows how much blocking can turn an ugly bug into a butterfly!!

Carla

Yes, I’m an idiot. I signed up for the Ravelympics. I am knitting lace though, so it counts for Seasons of Lace. I’ve wanted to knit the Flirty Ruffles Shawl for a long time, so this may motivate me to start and finish it! Here is an extremely boring picture. The first of 8 charts is finished.

It’s a start anyway. One person on Ravelry wrote that she completed the shawl in one week, and the ruffle took another week, so we’ll see.

I’d better get back at it. The clock is ticking.

This is a pattern that has several names. Sellers on ebay calls it Phoenix Palme. The Lena mag the pattern came from calls it Rosa romantic (but it might be because they have the white tablecloth on pink cloth?). And others have dubbed it Mimosa for the mimosa tree since that’s what the leaves look like. Whatever, a rose by any other name…

Anyway, it’s lovely and large. By my calculations, this took 2461 yds of Colourmart lace weight (cashmere).

Okay, I’m revved up and ready to knit for a Season of Lace.  I wanted to be fair and start and a logical place in my knitting.  I’m currently working on the Slow Bee I lace shawl (I guess I’m slower than a Slow Bee though).  Anyway, I had 4 lines to go to finish Clue I and I thought it was only fair that I finish those lines before I throw my hat in the ring for this fun!  Here’s a picture of my shawl thus far. 

I’m also doing the Mystic Light shawl, but it seems I haven’t worked on this one since I picked up the Slow Bee I bug.  But here’s the starting place for that one.

I think that’s it for now, but you never know with my disorganization!