Here it is! I finally finished the Secret of the Stole iii shawl! Shown here on me, in front of the Lajitas Mesa, near Big Bend National Park and Terlingua, Texas. We arrived yesterday from San Antonio, and took today to go scout Big Bend. The park is gorgeous, if you go for big, sweeping […]
Lace Knitting
As you know, I’ve been working on a couple of lace projects (and not really blogging much– there are reasons for that, mostly having to do with work and burnout). Anyway, I finished clues 6 and 7 in Secret of the Stole III: It’s hard to see the lace pattern, but there are flowers (or […]
TKGA: Progress at last!
I sat down and wrote some of the answers to the questions. Also this week, I moved on to swatch #4! Also, I finally checked off “block swatches 1-3 and 14” from my to-do list!
Lace. Whee.
Secret of the Stole iii continues to ease itself off my needles in bits and fits. This is section #5 of the mystery Knit-Along: The yarn is Malabrigo laceweight in a light green (“lettuce”). Malabrigo yarn is always variegated, because it’s kettle dyed– that means the dyes are absorbed unevenly by the yarn. Variegated yarn […]
More knitting crazy
I knitted another section of the green stole, finishing Hint #4 last night: I also pinned out and measured my circular shawl, but then failed to take a picture, because I’m an idiot.