On Monday my dear friend Kristie gave me an award! I could well be wrong (please don’t be angry if I am), but I don’t think I’ve gotten any sort of blogging award before. I’m flattered, tickled pink, all smiles. Thank you so much! The official rules of this award are:
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Calendar winner!
When only three people sign up for a giveaway, a random number generator really isn’t needed. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo would work just as well. But since the participants weren’t here in the room with me, I ran the number generator anyway. And, drum roll please… DonnaC wins the calendar! Donna, you probably haven’t seen my email […]
I made a bit of progress on the Mingus sock over the weekend. Two more rows, and I get to start the heel flap. That would happen tonight for sure, but I’m going to meet up with some local knitters this evening, and I know I won’t be taking that complicated pattern to work on. […]
I got a pile of swag at TNNA, and have yet to really go through everything that I brought home. One thing that got unearthed yesterday afternoon, one thing that I’d completely forgotten about, is this calendar from a Korean yarn company, Zaol.
It’s a nice calendar, a desktop, stand-up style affair, with pages that flip […]
I don’t have much to talk about today. The socks are progressing, as socks will. Got a couple of repeats done on my cable one, a good number of rows on Mingus. After all that hard knitting yesterday—twisted stitches, crosses, and cables—my hands needed a break at lunch, so I knit swatches. Stockinette swatches. With […]
I forgot to tell you yesterday that the lovely yarn I’m knitting this sock out of is Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in the Sand Ridge colorway. It’s been in my stash since last summer—I think. When I was digging in my sock yarn stash for a solid yarn to knit a pair of socks out […]
After not having any socks at all in progress since I finished the Vine Lace socks on December 11, I am now making up for lost time by have two pair on the go. I told you about the Mingus socks I started last week. They’re coming along nicely. I finished up the first 32-round […]
Yeah. They’re there. The three patterns I sent to Sheri earlier this month are.in.her.store. So, if you wanted a nicely printed paper copy of the patterns, you can just tuck them into your shopping cart at the same time that you’re there to buy some yarn.
Sorry. Excited. Just had to share. That’s it for […]
As promised, here’s a picture of my completed Sizzle. It’s a horrible picture, taken in the bedroom against the mirror that we do our best to hide with a huge and unwieldy headboard (the thing is ghastly, but I haven’t yet been able to do a thing about it—ugh!). Much better pictures of the nearly […]
Pattern: Garden Party, my own devising
Yarn: JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/18, 900 yards, Dianthus
Needles: Size 5 (3.75 mm) Addi Lace
Elapsed time: December 19, 2007 through January 16, 2008
Finished size: 81 x 35 inches
Construction: This triangular shawl starts with a central leaf panel. After that the right side is knit, then the left side. At that point […]