Seasons of Lace

I was a winner in one of the Random Joy raffle drawings.   My prize was to select two patterns from Melanie at Pink Lemon Twist. 

I’ve been eyeing a few of her patterns since I began (and have yet to finish!) my Swan Lake stole (Mystery Stole 2).

I chose Leda’s Dream (the Original Mystery Stole) and Scheherazade (Mystery Stole 2).

I love all of Melanie’s work and had a hard time deciding! 

Thank you!

Here are pics of my cardigan almost halfway. The yarn is Blue Heron Egyptian Mercerized Cotton, 2-ply laceweight, colorway Carnelian. I finally figured out how I can play with my photos, and have managed to give a sense of the real color of the yarn in the top, detail photo. The lower photo shows the effect of the flash–it hides the blue tones, making the whole thing seem orangey. Well there is a lot of orange in the yarn, but it’s quite subtle.This is a fun knit, coinciding with my second mandala shawl. I’m hoping to finish both before the winter of lace comes along, so I can make a fresh start!

I got my fabulous raffle prize in the mail. It’s a Knit Picks Lace yarn sampler. Thanks!

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Here’s a shot of the yarn I won from A Piece of Vermont. It’s Sugar Hill 2-ply laceweight wool, 3.5 ounces, 660 yards, in the colorway Hearthside, which of course had to be photographed on the Vermont wood pile. It has a rich range of deep reds. It’s really lovely, and I’m so grateful! This shop has some really luscious hand dyed spinning fiber as well. Worth looking into!

I chose the pattern for the Arrowhead Moebius Shrug from FiberDancer Studios:

I’ve been wanting to learn this cast-on, and this will be a great way to try it out. The other pattern I have that uses it calls for very fine yarn, and I’m not sure I’m up to learning the technique with laceweight. Thanks ShadowDancer!

Today I received this adorable skein of yarn from Donna at Spinning daydreams. It came in this cute little box. There was also a spinners cupcake with nine yards of yarn to play with. Thanks again.

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’m not sure if anyone is checking this blog anymore, but I thought I would post a picture of my finished shawl.  It came out about 25×80 and used about 2 2/3 balls of Knit Picks Gloss in Celery. So nice to get this done.

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!!!

Looks like we have some extra patterns to give away.

What a shame.

Whatever will I do?

I guess, I’ll just have to fire up that Random Number Generator for a bit of Random Joy!

Today, we’ve got three prizes from Melanie (PinkLemon ) of

Pink Lemon Twist .  She’s generously decided to give three lucky people two patterns from her collection!

The Random Number Generator says that those three people are:

BlindPurl

Radarkaty

and

Joycef2

Congratulations all!  I’ve told Melanie who you are… and she should be emailing you soon to learn which patterns you chose.  Please post and tell us what you chose too!

I am so excited to win the most consistent blogger award. Not having a blog of my own I see now how difficult it is to try and blog every day, especially when you are limited to one subject! One of the reasons I had so many projects was just to have something to blog about.

I don’t know if this is where I am supposed to officially do it, but after much back and forth and consultation with others, I would love to have the copper pin on the bottom.  They are both so beautiful it was a tough decision.

Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a great summer!

Monica