Welcome to all who are here for the Sweet Summer blog tour, hosted by Karen and her Cotton Spice blog.
Yes, it’s really been a week since I last posted. Honestly, I can’t believe how quickly a week goes by these days. I think I’m starting to get the real gist of Grandma’s complaint about how […]
I wanted to see how far I’ve really gotten, so last night after getting a fair amount of knitting done on the new shawl I traded needle tips for plugs, got the fabric wet, and pinned it out on the bed to block and dry over night. Blocking this way is far from perfect, but […]
You maybe, but not me. Sorry to tease you. Even after years of the occasional attempt, and actually (at least sometimes) enjoying the smell of it, I still abhor coffee. The coffee I’m talking about here is the color. Colors. My good friend Denise (sadly blogless) loves her coffee, and each week as I work […]
It’s official. I’m delighted that I ripped out all that knitting and all those beads last week and started over with different beads. Though for a lot of things I do like matching the color of the beads to the yarn so that the beads just add a little sparkle, a little texture, it turns […]
Dave thinks the lovely taupe color of this yarn looks like dust bunnies. Especially from a distance. Especially when the knitting is bunched up and small, like it is now.
Yes, you heard me say, “Small, like it is now.”
This is because all that lovely knitting that I showed you the other day is gone. All […]
I started working on the triangular version of Domus Aurea the other day. Until a few minutes ago when I was upstairs taking pictures I was tickled pink with it. Now I’m not. Why you ask? Because it’s clear to me now. I should have used black beads.
If I’d used black beads, the diamond […]
As far as lace shawls go, Midnight Garden is about as far as you can get from Domus Aurea. Well, about as far as I’ll probably go, anyway. Midnight Garden is a triangle instead of a rectangle; it’s knit with fingering weight yarn instead of a fine lace weight; when the knitting’s done there are […]
Woot! It’s done. The ends are woven in. It’s blocking on the bed in the guest room. Hopefully tomorrow morning will dawn bright and sunny so I can get some good photos of it. In the meantime, you’ll have to be content with these. I love how it looks before blocking. The back, especially. The […]
As usual, you all quite blow me away with your pattern name suggestions. I love them all. Thanks to the confusion of being able to post comments on pictures—a feature I have a love-hate relationship with—if you want to read the explanations for the suggestions you’ll find them in three places: here, here, and here. […]
Tons of progress made on the new red scarf pattern yesterday. I even got it wet and pinned it out last night before going to bed, to see how far I really am, and to make sure that the pattern will work as expected. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s a winner.
What […]