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: […]
Not having kids to feed allows Dave and I to have very odd meals sometimes. Like the other night. It was blisteringly hot in here, well over 90F in the kitchen, and neither of us felt like making the room warmer yet by applying heat to food. So we scrounged. Dinner ended up consisting of […]
Watching the ponies
Our good friend Mikki is a member of Sons of Italy, and as such, invited us to join the group for an evening at the races at the Los Alamitos Race Course. For a reasonable fee, we got preferred parking, entrance into the Vessels Club, and a tasty dinner. In addition to Mikki, […]
I finally finished up the Mystery Stole clue four late last night, just in time for clue 5 to be revealed this morning. And, ooh. Melanie, girlfriend, you are amazingly creative! I’m sure I’m not saying anything at this point that hasn’t been bandied about the Internet a bunch of times already this morning when […]
It’s been feeling a bit like Christmas around here. Especially Saturday and today. Saturday I got a pile of books that I ordered from this seller on Half.com. Since it was one seller, the shipping was relatively reasonable for three books, and the seller shipped them in a nice, well-fitting box.
What did I get?
Why […]
In spite of the fact that I intentionally didn’t spend very much time working on the stole at any one sitting, and spread out the enjoyment of knitting the second clue as much as possible, I still finished it yesterday afternoon.
I’m still in love with this shawl. I love how the border is knit […]
First off, I thought I’d share a photo I took where you can actually see the beads along the edge of the knitting. I’ve seen quite a few of other people’s photos now, and the best ones for showing the beads seem to be taken at a bit of an angle.
See? Beads. Yummy, sparkly, […]
I hope everyone had a safe and fun Fourth of July. We stayed home. Watched movies most of the day. It was great. Since I was just sitting there in front of the TV anyway, I spent most of the day knitting. I finished up the first Monkey sock, and got a good start on […]
I think I was speed knitting this weekend. I was so excited about getting started, and about the beads, that I knit, and knit, and knit, and then I stopped, because I finished the first clue already! I am totally in love with adding beads to knitting this way (with a crochet hook) that I […]
With the yarn all nicely wound, I was finally able to swatch for the Mystery Stole. I really like laceweight yarn knit up on size six needles, and I just happen to have a KnitPicks set of those (nice and pointy), so I dug them out. I gathered those up with the swatch pattern, instructions, […]