As I’ve mentioned before, reading knitting blogs has opened up so many new knitting horizons for me. Most of my past knitting was done with worsted weight or thicker yarns, and generally acrylic. I especially loved doing cables – in the mid-nineties I made a boxy, drop-sleeved, heavily cabled tunic-length sweater out of chunky weight [...]
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is what happens to lace when you block it.
Weird manta ray-shaped object:
Triangle with scalloped edges:
Again… Manta ray:
Triangle:
Weird blobby textures:
Beautiful lacy goodness:
Again… blobby:
Lacy:
One thing is for sure – I either need to start making smaller shawls, or I’m going to need to buy a bigger bed.
This was the [...]
When I first started reading blogs, I was intrigued by swaps. Here were strangers, connected only by a love of knitting, creating treasures and sending each other wonderful packages full of delightful goodies, hand-picked with that person in mind. There seemed to be such a warm community spirit around these swaps.
Now that I have my [...]
Remember the crease that resulted from folding the stole in half before blocking it? Well, a few pins
And a little steam
Equals no more crease
Thursday, August 24, 2006
As promised, here are some more photos
The doubled-over blocking worked fine, except for leaving a crease in the centre, as you can see in this next picture. I will pin out the centre part and steam the crease out. That should work fine.
Of course, what would “fashion shots” be without a couple of the stole [...]
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Well, here it is. I pretty much suck at the fashion shots, but I hope these show how beautiful this stole is.
I have more pictures, but after loading up these two, Blogger decided to conk out and not let me upload any pictures. So I’ll continue this post later, when Blogger decides to cooperate.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
I finished knitting Scheherazade (aka Mystery Stole 2) sometime last week, but I’ve been suffering from blocking anxiety ever since. I’ve never blocked anything this big before. My first issue was where to block it. I played around with a few ideas, and then decided the only viable option was to use the bed. So [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Lots of little odds and ends today. I’m writing this before I leave for work, so I’ll see how much I have time for. Anything I don’t get to will have to wait for another day. Wednesday is the only day I have time in the mornings – a couple of months ago I started [...]
This week my new swift finally arrived. And it’s fabulous. I set it up immediately and wound a ball of laceweight in minutes. But I forgot to take pictures. Bad blogger. So I dug out another skein that I’m not yet ready to use, but wound for demonstration purposes.
So….
1 skein of [...]
I took a break today from the stole to whip up a new dishcloth, using the Garterlac pattern. I know, it’s not the same one I showed the start of yesterday – that one is still at the same state it was when I took a picture. I decided that it needed to be more [...]
