This is the Lilac Leaf Shawl, from the new book Knitted Lace of Estonia, by Nancy Bush.
I knit this shawl using Jaggerspun Zephyr, color ebony, on US size 4 needles. Black yarn is notoriously difficult to work with, because it can be hard to see detail in the work. I always made sure [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Lilac Leaf Stole
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cookies!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My annual Christmas gift to my friends and colleagues.
This year I made gingerbread men, crispy lebkuchen, pecan cringles, windmill cookies, mocha chocolate cringles, and, of course, chocolate chip cookies. I think that altogether it came out to just over 300 cookies. The windmill cookies are cut round because I don’t have any cookie stamps [...]
Snow!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Since moving to Texas two years ago, I’ve really missed snow. Our annual Thanksgiving trip home to the Midwest, however, got me all caught up.
Yeah, driving back to the airport on Interstate 43 was lots of fun!
The snow had been lots prettier that morning, viewed from the front porch of my mother-in-law’s [...]
