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bellamoden kid mohair and silk lace (Pretty In Pink) + Malabrigo lace merino (Floral) The pattern is called Eva’s Shawl by milobo. Always fun to see how others have done this project on Ravelry. I’ve stayed fairly true to the directions, though I’ve simplified them a bit for my taste, as they are written using […] I was just cruising along on the Moderne baby blanket, absolutely determined to hit the finish line this weekend. Sometimes, in a rush to complete a project, you consciously or unconsciously overlook things that are less than quality. “Oh, I can block that into shape. It won’t be a problem.” You know what they say […] Yes, I am well aware that my projects-in-progress bags and basket overfloweth. After reading your advice on how to best manage that situation, in the end I decided to not view it as a problem in need of resolution. Call it the chumps way out, but I can’t let the very thing that brought me […] What do a partial Monkey number 2, the beginning of another sock and about 5 inches of a red raglan cropped sweater all have in common? They all spell a weak excuse for at least two weeks worth of knitting. Sure, I started new projects despite my protestations on too many WIPs which, by the […] I know some people who say that any more than two or three works in progress (WIPs) would drive them completely around the bend. Before starting one more item, those things would either be finished or frogged. Would that I were so disciplined. Witness the following items in varying states of incompleteness: There are two […] At its most basic, that’s all knitting really is, isn’t it? Loops over loops. Only when we apply these under-over-through actions to the loops in a consistent, uniform way do we begin to see the loops build upon one another into a cohesive fabric. This is something that has fascinated me of late. Just how […] Just think. Twenty skeins of Noro Silk Garden (color 224) have been sitting in my stash ever since Stitches Midwest 2006. I seem to recall elbowing my way past a gaggle of stitchers looking for a half-price bargain in two giant bins of Noro. When I came up for air, I had two 10-packs […] Blue Sky Alpacas’ Organic Cotton (l-r: Bone, Espresso, Willow, Sage) Thirty stitches. That’s how many I cast onto my size 9 (US) straights. Thirty stitches. If you do the math, that means I’ve got quite a few possibilities for texture and pattern blocks to make up my scrummy organic cotton throw. So far, I’ve combined […] I looked out my window and got the shock of my life. I saw near white-out conditions, with winds whipping gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. All this instead of a little rain. That’s all it was earlier. Rain and 50 degrees (F). The last time the winter winds went haywire, my 9-foot […] I was perfectly positioned on my (once) cream colored work bench (leg propped up, two pillows behind my back), quietly knitting away with some nondescript TV background noise to keep the machine humming. During a channel change break, I somehow landed right in the middle of a mini-marathon of all the current season episodes of […] |