Anchorage has been having quite a week or two. We have hit records with our heat – 90 F the other day in Anchorage – and all the rest of the days for the last week and a bit have been pretty hot as well, although not as bad. This is pretty unprecedented for us.… Continue reading So Damn Hot
I got a good start on my last run-through of my new crescent shawl design. The first 2 versions used 100 yds each of 4 colors – 1 beaded, the other not. I wanted to try a version with 5 smaller miniskeins of a more average size. When the directions are finished, I should have… Continue reading Crescent Shawl Design – Last Version, I Swear
Well, heading into Wednesday, anyway đŸ˜‰ Of the three things I have going right now, I haven’t touched the entrelac kerchief this week, though I plan to do at least a bit over the next couple of days. I am well along on the first sleeve of Glenesk There is about 2/3 of the last… Continue reading Wednesday WIPs
I have a bit of progress to report on both the Call of the Sirens and the entrelac kerchief, so that’s exciting. Glad to be moving forward! On Call of the Sirens, I got back to the point where I made the decision to rip back and then went into clue 2 with no problems. … Continue reading Progress Report – Sirens and Entrelac
So I have been knitting on this shawl, which if you have read any previous posts you have probably already seen, for what seems like forever. Â But is really since mid-April, which is long enough. Â True, I have also been working on another shawl and a series of afghan blocks at the same time, but… Continue reading The Neverending Shawl
As promised – here are pics of my Waiting for Rain… For anyone who hasn’t seen this before, its claim to fame is a nifty short row lace technique. Â Interesting to work! Â Mine is done in various shades of Gnarledpaw yarn – Stormy and part of a Robust Blue ombre set. Close up of the… Continue reading Waiting for Rain
Well, the past week has seen some knitting-related progress! Â First, I finished the sweater I have been working on – Oddrun, designed by Elsebeth Lavold. Â I am pretty happy with how it got… It’s a nice pattern, some shaping, a little bit of cabling, but nothing too crazy. Â There is also the option to make… Continue reading What’s on the Needles Now?
For a long time, I resisted shawls as a knitting project option. Â Other knitters were working away at them, sometimes quite a lot of them. Â I saw the patterns on Ravelry and in the magazines, and sometimes would even stop to look longingly at them before deciding to pass. More recently, I have grown to… Continue reading We All Shawl Down
For the past couple of weeks, I have had a few projects in the works that were sort of black holes of knitting efforts. Â I knit and knit and knit and knit, and there didn’t seem to be any less yarn, and I was still nowhere close to done. Â Then finally, I broke away from… Continue reading What’s on the Needles Now?
Quite A Yarn 