My visual thrills this week have been provided by the field of barley next to the Windswept Acre. Each morning when I take the dogs out, I stand with my rapidly cooling coffee and just gaze at the field. The barley is right at that stunning green-gold phase and it simply glows in the morning …
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WIP, WIP
It is WIP Wednesday
It is WIP Wednesday
Is there an echo in here?
I always cry at weddings
WIP Wednesday! WIPpage this week has been entirely confined to this little piece of froth… It is the rectangular stole version of Kieran Foley’s Teardrop shawl. I am making it in a 2ply alpaca blend yarn – Machair, from The Yarn Yard. There is some very subtle beading going on there, with 11/0 beads in …
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 …
Fo: A field of red poppies
My first lace shawl was an Evelyn Clark, the Swallowtail (I have knitted that twice). This is my first return to Evelyn’s designs. I like this one even more than the Swallowtail and wonder why it has received so little interest in comparison.
Details and gallery.
Poppy Progress: 12/09 Almost there
Progress report on the UK-RAk Shawl KAL.