The stole progresses
I started knitting the border yesterday. I made pretty good progress, too, until I got too tired to knit, made a mistake, then couldn’t find it to fix it. That was my cue to put down the needles for the evening.
I’ve been working up the pattern in fits and starts, massaging the […]
Oh. My. Goodness. I noted an interest in participating in a tea swap over on Ravelry early in the summer. Didn’t hear anything about it for quite a while, then completely forgot it until I got an email message from Christina. Seems we’d been paired a month before, and she hadn’t realized it, either. Goodness. […]
Goodness. I didn’t mean to tease you all so much! I thought I’d told you what Anne suggested, but I guess that’s what I get for doing my own thinking—especially when I’ve been up since 3 am, like I was on Friday when I wrote that post.
Oh yeah. The tip. Before I forget again […]
Waves and shells
As promised here are a few pictures of my ocean-themed shawl. It’s been progressing quite nicely. I think I might even have enough yarn to do everything I want, and get a shawl at least close to the size I had in mind.
As you can see, even without stretching it’s getting quite […]
I think it must have been about a million years ago. It was the first, maybe the second, time I subscribed to Rowan’s annual club. I got the free yarn that they sent along. I’d been wanting to knit up a cozy pillow sham for a little toss pillow for a long time, so I […]
Pattern: Mystery Stole 3 by Melanie of Pink Lemon Knits
Yarn: Baruffa Cashwool in pearl, about 64 grams of yarn, which equates to about 934 yards
Beads: Size 8/0 beads, peacock inside color from Fire Mountain Gems
Needles: KnitPicks Options, size six, and one size 13 crochet hook for applying beads
Elapsed time: June 29 through September 3
Finished size: […]
I have lived places for long periods of time that get hotter on a regular basis than southern California has been in the last few weeks. But I left them. On purpose. Now I’m out of practice. Not only that, but for here it’s been humid. I know I shouldn’t complain. Large parts of this […]