Sometimes I think the hardest part about designing is sucking it up and ripping out a whole lot of knitting that I was totally happy with up until ten minutes ago. I did it again this morning. I may not have been posting, but I have been knitting. A lot. I’ve frogged this new start […]
Yup. You heard me right. A pigeon. Not that we haven’t had pigeons here before. We have. A lot of them. They used to nest on one of our decks. We took steps… This one was different. This pigeon was banded.
Our visiting pigeon flew in about 6:30 or so, and he stuck around until […]
I didn’t post about it yesterday, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get any knitting done. The golden shawl is growing quickly. I didn’t measure the length when I had it pinned out just now, but I did measure its width: 28 inches. It’s nice and wide, and it drapes beautifully, because of the silk. […]
Yes, it’s finally here. In the Summer Shade is finally available for purchase in my pattern shop.
The Wright-inspired shawl is coming along, though I didn’t get anywhere near as much done on it yesterday as I wanted to. You can start to see where I’m going with it, I think. You should get a bit of a hint from this picture, anyway.
Doesn’t my little helper have the most adorable feet? […]
Another of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright windows is Tree of Life from the Darwin D. Martin house in New York. Simple elegance—and another piece of the inspiration for this shawl pattern. I made good progress on it over the weekend. Only eight more rows to knit of the first motif before moving on to […]
I’ve always been inspired by the simple elegance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work—this window is from the Dana-Thomas house. I have some Silk Lace yarn from Claudia Hand Paints that’s been calling to me since it arrived at the end of January. The 100% silk lace weight yarn, combined with the delicate elegance of Claudia’s […]
Yes, you heard right. The knitting is done (I stayed up until 1:30 am to do it!), the shawl is blocked, and the pictures have been taken. The pattern needs to be tweaked a bit, then it will be test knit. Then you’ll be able to buy the kit from Posh Yarn. I’ll let you […]
Our local library bookstore had a sale again on Saturday, so we went. The last time we went we brought home two bags of books for $2.00 per bag. It worked out to 16 books for $.25 each. This week we got 20 books into one bag, so the books were only $.10 each. I […]
The first set of flowers is one right-side row and one wrong-side away from being done. The base of the flowers and stems are lining up nicely along the tops of the diamonds, and making some interesting shapes. It’ll be fun to see what happens from here.
I like the way the outer edge of […]