Knitting and occasional cooking and gardening adventures!
Aug 09 2007
I put in my order to Knit Picks today for Wool of the Andes in Amethyst Heather - enough to make the sweater on the cover of the Summer 2007 Interweave Knits, the Wheat-Ear Cable Yoke sweater. I’m anxiously awaiting my order to arrive so I can start swatching!
I’m binding off on The Shawl [...]
Jul 27 2007
I’ll start with the exciting news: I’ve completed Clue 1 of Mystery Stole 3! YAY!! I completed it last night and I’m now a few rows in to Clue 2. Of course this means that photos of what it’s looking like so far should be shown, so here they are:
Tonight I’m going over to Crafty [...]
Jul 24 2007
I have decided that on Monday nights after my 12 hour work day, I should not, under any circumstances, knit lace. Especially not MS3. Last night I thought it would be a good idea to work on MS3 for a while before bed. This was a bad idea. I knit three rows and something went [...]
Jun 30 2007
Here’s my Mystery Stole 3 swatch:
It’s difficult to see the beads. There are two kinds - one that is sort of clear with a rainbow tint and the other is pearl-ish. I’m going with the latter. I think they look nice with the color of the yarn. Now I just need to see [...]
Jun 25 2007
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I did this… call it payroll delusional brain (too much payroll processing on Monday causes this) or just crazy, but I joined the Mystery Stole Along 3.
I’m contemplating using the lilac colored Zephyr lace weight that I got from the Lace Swap a while back so [...]
