Seasons of Lace

So…. there are more raffle prizes…

We’ve done a Round Three Raffle for four of our Raffle Categories.  These four had plenty of players… and we just couldn’t resist.

First up… Wee Lace JustdotChristina is our lucky winner.  She’ll be receiving a kit for Maureen Mason-Jamieson’ scarf Whimsy

from Shelridge Farms.

Christina… contact Buffy at Shelridge Farms to choose your color!

Buffy will be sending in the color of the winner’s choice.

Then… Small Lace  Birgit She’ll be receiving some luscious a hank of cobweb yarn from Freyalyn of Freyalyn’s Fibers

It’s a blend of merino and mohair, with a slight halo and lovely lustre. Weight is between 80-90g, but the yardage is 1500 yards/1300 metres. The color in the picture below is Murex, but she will dye to whatever colour birgit desires! .

Then  Medium Lace  – dplantlady is our lucky winner — she’ll be receiving three skeins of KnitPicks Shimmer, donated by escr

and finally

Lace Socks. judybll will be getting a hand dyed skein of yarn from Rabbitch!

I hope you all had a great weekend while I was frolicking about with my family on a bit of a sneak long weekend.

It’s great to see these prize winners posts of their goodies — especially the ones that I haven’t seen in person yet.

Meanwhile, we have the voting in from all but one of our judges, so I’m hoping that we can announce Judged Competition winners soon.

In the interim…I think it’s about time for Round Two of the Raffles, except that I do want to explain how we’re doing this, because not all of the events will have multiple rounds of prizes. You may have noticed that for each of the first round raffles, I identified how many “entries” there were (posts that qualified as entries either designated that something was cast on, or finished), and how many knitters there were. We decided that for categories with fewer than ten players, we’d do a single raffle; for those with between 10 and 17 players, we’d run two rounds of raffles; for those with 18- 25 players we’d do three rounds, and the one with over 30 players would get a fourth raffle. We considered doing 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, and 30+, but one category with 18 knitters had over 50 entries… and we just “had” to reward that.

So, for Round Two, we have some duplicate prizes, sort of.  The second round Raffle Prize For Newbie Lace Knitters, and for Small Lace is a KnitPicks Lace sampler.   We have two colors left — and our winners will get to choose!  There’s one sampler pack in “Sea View” (blues), and two in “Sunset Picnic”.  Whichever winner contacts me first gets first choice.

And our Newbie prize winner is……… Melfina!! who will also be enjoying a $10.00 gift certificate from

And our Small Lace prize winner is ……. nolaboard!, who will also be receiving a Hearts & Hugs sock pattern from JoyKnits

Congratulations!

But wait… that’s not all!!!

We also have another gorgeous shawl pin  from Designs by Romi to raffle off for the Second Round prize in Self Designed Lace!

thislittlepiggyknits will be receiving this pin as soon as Romi can arrange it!  She’ll also be receiving a sock pattern from the Knit Foundry

And finally ( … well, for today anyway)

We’ve raffled off another $25.00 Gift certificate from

as the Second Round Raffle Prize for Wee Lace

alittlefuzzy will be receiving this… and will enjoy free shipping on her goodies if she’s in the U.S.!  She also has a $10.00 gift certificate from KnitSpot

Tomorrow??

More Round Two Raffle Prizes!!!

Whichy and I got together today and worked through Round One of the Raffles.  We agree that each prize deserves equal time…so we’re going to torture you all by spreading out the notices over the next couple of days.

Today, we’re going to tell you about the Raffles for which there are going to be at least three rounds.

For the Wee Knits Raffle (in which we had 82 entries from 22 knitters playing), the First Round Raffle Winner is tammyknits!

tammyknits will be receiving a skein of yarn from

Artsy Gal , (who was also one of our sponsors.)  In addition, she’ll have her choice of pattern pdfs from
We hope that tammyknits will post a picture of her prize when she receives it.

The Small Knits Raffle was next.  We had 102 entries with 23 knitters playing.  The First Round Raffle Winner is escr, who will be choosing her favorite one of the Knit Picks lace samplers.

Next, we have Medium lace, with 89 tickets for 32 players.  The winner for the first Round Raffle here is wenat!

Wenat will be receiving two skeins of delicious Wagtail Yarns (100% fine kid mohair, 375 meters), courtesy of The Fairy GodKnitter.

and a copy of JoyKnits Shawls booklet .

And finally, (for now), for the Raffle for Socks/Mitts/Gloves (in which we had 51 entries from 18 knittes), our first round winner is marinemom! (This seems fitting somehow, she finished NINE pairs of socks this Season!!).  MarineMom will be receiving a skein of yarn and a pattern from Jen at

Wool Girl is also one of our sponsors with 10% off lace yarns.

We hope that Marinemom will share a picture of her prize when it arrives!

Soon to come… More Round One Raffle Winners!!!

I am really glad I had the time to get these finished. I didn’t want any unfinished lace sitting around. I’m ready to start holiday knitting! These are Eyelet rib socks in Shepherd Sock, color Mother Lode 284 yds. I’ll be back tomorrow for my final wrap-up.

For once, I’ve had a successful KAL!  Despite past tradition of not knitting along, I manged to knit lace (and only lace!) successfully all summer.  I even managed to sneak in one last completion:

Pattern: Pear and Trellis (Knitspot)

Yarn:Colourmart Cashmere/Silk 3/45NM Laceweight, worked with two strands together

Needles: 3.0mm/ U.S. 2-1/2

In addition to two other completed projects, I also started, frogged, restarted, refrogged, restarted (etc.) two other projects, which might actually get back on the needles…sometime.  Earlier, I finally started Bee Fields (also Knitspot), but, distracted by my Ravelympics entry, didn’t make it out of the second (first? my memory’s foggy on this one) chart.  As it stands today, I’m not sure it’s much further than my previous posting.

So, in sum total, I manged…erm…not very many yards, at least compared to some!

Previously submitted, Mare ocsuro had 815 yards.

Of a total 287 yards for Pear & Trellis, I knit 180 during Summer of Lace.

Elm Row was 268 yards

And Bee Fields, so far stands at ~ 165 yards.

For a grand (ahem) total of 1428 yards.  Not exactly impressive…but if you count all the frogging and reknitting…actually, I’m really happy with what I accomplished.  Now onto a fall for finishing! (And sweaters. Which need finished.)

I finished my Christmas Lace Dishcloth this afternoon making it my final finished project

I went to a family gathering yesterday not realizing the date for final submission was the 23rd. While there, I cast on another lace dishcloth so I’d have something to keep my hands busy while we sat around chatting. (Many of us ladies are in the habit of bringing piecework.)  Anyway, here is a photo of it I took after I got back home

The pattern is called Christmas Lace Dishcloth and the yarn is Sugar and Cream.

My lace progress was suddenly impeded by the development of a wonky thumb.  But I had travel time with lots of time to knit coming up!  So I cast about (HAR!) for No Purl Lace projects.  And remembered a lovely pattern by Sivia Harding which I had bought this spring; and the special yarn I had bought on a trip to Chicago early this summer.

In only a few days, here’s the result: the Victorian Shoulderette Shawl, in Artyarns Silk Rhapsody Glitter:

Since I didn’t realize the deadline was extended, the photograph above is without blocking, so it’ll be a bit longer when blocked, but being garter stitch, it does not require blocking to see the pattern in any case.

ETA:

Here it is after blocking!

It is meant to be a small shoulder shawl, and used about 220 yards of the 250 yard skein.

The yarn is gorgeous, silk/mohair with a strand of glitter, though not easy to knit, being both slippery and also two strands that are not plied together, so one has to keep an eye on it.  Addi Lace needles worked well for me.

The colors remind me of pearls:  cream, pale grey, pale pink.

But no purls!!

So, this Season of Lace is drawing to a close. We’ve got two more days to finish things up so that they can earn more raffle tickets.  I’m pretty sure that unless I abandon all other activities between now and midnight on Tuesday, this will be the last thing I finishing for THIS Season of Lace.  (I’ll be working on the other stuff in the interim, and plotting others to START for Winter of Lace though).

I designed this hat for my friend.

It’s got lace and cables.

I’ve been told that the lace looks like sky scrapers in the decreasing sections.

Perhaps they’re to remind us to reach, always, for the sky — because the sky is the limit.

I like the way the cables continue on and on, even as they get smaller at the crown..

Like hope, they never quite die, and at their smallest, they gain strength from joining with one another.

It’s made of soft yarn — yet sturdy yarn.  A bit of acrylic, and a bit of silk.  So that man’s tinkering and nature’s strength and beauty combine. … rather like chemo therapy and a patient.  I know her strength and beauty will hold out…. and I look forward to the day when her hair has returned to the thick luxurious tresses that would make this a tad snug.  Until then, may it keep her warm.

I’ll work on something airier for her for when she doesn’t need it anymore.

Here they all are, my summer of lace last finished objects.  A lot of knitting, and I did some non-lace things as well, and started a lace throw, too!

And these that I’ve already gifted…

For a total of twelve small lace projects.  Whew!

List:

1 Chenille face cloth

2. Mikado Rivolo (scarf)

3. Gusty aegean (scarf

4. Blue scarf

5. Silky Omo (scarf

6. Squeezey Birches (stole)

7. Ocean Breezes (scarf)

8. Little headband

9. Kid merino mist (scarf)

10. Fishbone cowl

11. Japanese feather stole

12. Inverno shawl