Lst August I bought a skein of Gloaming from Natalie at The Yarn Yard. It’s a Merino/Silk blend offering 800m to a 100g skein.
The yarn has languished for a while.
Cue the Echo Flower Shawl.
Tag archives: Knit
Oh, oh, Kermit’s back
The Skew sock was completed last night and I tried it on. This thing is just not going to work, so it is off to the frog pond for it. I had a lot of fun, the whole knitting thing was a real magical mystery tour. I’m glad I made it, but I am never …
Stranger than fiction
The Sock and I decided that life is too short to spend hours confined on a ferry and in killing time kicking heels around in town. We stayed home and did a little mutual growth exercise instead…
White and Strange – part 2
A short examination of one form of shawl construction… which may exhibit very little clarity butmakes just a little sense to myself.
Evenstar 2:1
The second instalment of Evenstar was released at 6pm last night. There is one chart of 34 rounds, worked over 280 stitches – so there are 4 setup rows, with the stitches first being doubled to 288, then reduced to 280. I executed the setup rows, then set the work aside until today. Am currently …
Something for the Family Trunk
The snow-inspired project was so exciting for me that I was really quite devastated that it would not work. I frogged it three times and then gave up. I was sad ((The shawl will return. I’m just waiting for new and improved charts to be released.)) Something soft and intricate was definitely indicated after knitting …