Pattern: Dulcavina, my own devising.
Yarn: Malabrigo Lace, 2 hanks Forrest, 1.04 hanks Black.
Needles: Size 5 (3.75 mm), Knit Picks Options Harmony, and Knit Picks 8 inch Harmony DPNs, same size.
Elapsed time: March 5 to April 29
Notes: O.M.G. I love it. It’s so incredibly soft, airy, lacy, viney… everything I was looking for. Except for […]

Dulcavina is almost done. I just need to block it. Hopefully that’ll get done some time today. I hope. I love how it turned out.
One of my test knitters, Kathryn, actually finished before I did. Her stole is even blocked. She doesn’t have any pictures up yet, but the preview I saw is stunning. […]

Another blogiversay—or is it blogoversary? Either way, three years ago today I started my blog and wrote my first post. It’s rather amazing. I’ve made some wonderful friends, some few of whom I’ve met in real life, most I haven’t. But whether we’ve met face-to-face or not, your friendship, kindness, support are of immense importance […]

Ya gotta love it when the postal system works like a well-oiled machine—like when a package is sent one day, and received the next. By the intended recipient. Especially when the package includes black Malabrigo Lace yarn so that a certain stole project can be finished. Thank you, Cathy!
Since I was ordering yarn anyway, […]

Tilt
While waiting for the second ball of black Malabrigo Lace to arrive, I’ve so far made good progress on the brown sock. It’s going well. The sock has even decided on a name for itself: Tilt.

Yup. It’s the same stitch pattern I tried to use with the Figgy Pudding yarn, but we all know […]

It didn’t work. Rushing. That is, rushing so that I wouldn’t run out of yarn.
Because I ran out anyway.
At about a foot, plus one corner, from the end.

The good news is that Cathy at Twist had one hank left of the same lot of black Malabrigo Lace that this one came from. […]

I have a couple more Dulcavina pictures for you. The first one is with the sides and end pulled out and pinned down. Before taking the second picture I pulled out all the pins, picked up the end of the stole, “fluffed” it, laid it down again, and then took the picture. I’m booking right […]

Last week Anne wrote a post that referred to me and linked here to my blog. That day I got 525 hits to my blog! I know. I was amazed. Astounded. All’s back to normal now, with my just-over-100 hits-per-day thing going on. I liked getting all that attention, though. It was fun.

Mingus
I finished […]

I’m on a roll with the first Mingus sock. It’s nearly done. Less than an inch to go before the toe decreases. I hope to start those this evening. I got about ten rows done on this sock last evening, which is quite a bit for this pattern. It helps that the sole of the […]

I’d been starting to lean that way anyway, but then last night at our Monday night knitting get together, Kristie was fairly insistent. She really, really, really likes the name Dulcavina. It’s unique, she says. It certainly is, since I made it up—inspired by Denise (blogless) and Karen. It’s descriptive. It flows off the tongue. […]