Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on.
And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been pulling [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 1st, 2010
My head is full of projects these days. I’ve finished a couple things that have been sitting around for months (and years) so I’m “allowed” to start something new.
I’ve been looking through patterns and pulling yarn out of stash, making swatches for this and that. I’d show you a picture of my knitting area (the [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 14th, 2010
Well.
That was fun.
Not.
The last 24 hours were a bit of a disaster. Not on a scale of the disaster in Haiti and in comparison it’s not worth whining about, but when all the little crappy things pile one on top of the other before you can catch your breath, the worse a personal disaster it [...]
Posted in Knitting on Dec 8th, 2009
Every year our little Knitting in the Neighborhood group abandons its straight-back chairs at Borders to sit our tushes down for an evening of drinks, food and laughter at our holiday party.
Frankie and Pam
Frankie pulls it all together and as always did a marvelous job finding a restaurant that could handle a bunch of [...]
Posted in Knitting on Nov 9th, 2009
For those of you who don’t think you can knit lace, go read our Nora’s blog post today before you say “I can’t.” Then come back here and see what I have to say about this pattern.
Pattern: Labyrinth Lace Shawl by Evelyn Clark Designs (Ravelry link)
Needles: Addi Natura US 4
Started: 8/9/08
Finished: 8/16/09
Yarn: merino fingering weight. [...]
Pattern: Laminaria, from Knitty, Spring, 2008
Yarn: Misti Alpaca Lace, 100% Baby Alpaca, (437 yards, 50 grams), Color 7120
Needles: Addi Lace US 4
Finished Size: 50 inches wide by 25 inches (small size)
Started: June 1 (?), 2009
Finished: June 29, 2009
The color in the detail shots is closer to the true shade, although I think there’s a touch [...]
This little girl (boy?) is a Navajo Churro lamb. I wanted her for a pet but ended up with some of her wool instead.
Where did I find her? At the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival. One of my sisters and I spent the day wandering around there. We’re home now but too pooped to provide [...]
Halfway.
This is the Labyrinth Lace Shawl (Ravelry link) by Evelyn Clark. It’s a garter stitch shawl, knit point to point, with two increases every other row until you reach the widest — the halfway — point in the shawl and then you decrease two stitches every other row.
I’m a little more than halfway finished and [...]
Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2009
As eventful as yesterday was, today the universe took pity on us and dialed it down a notch. Nothing exploded, no body parts were injured and the major calamity was burning my English muffin at breakfast. I had to share part of Jack’s cinnamon roll. Darn.
In the face of all this peacefulness, I got my [...]
Posted in Knitting on Jan 28th, 2009
There’s much going on but I’m not finding the time or sunlight to take pictures and put together a coherent post, so tonight there’s random.
The knitting class went well on Monday, we got through purling and knit-two-together and increasing. We’re ready to start a project so I set out to find something that wasn’t as [...]
