Posted in Knit shawls, Lace, tagged Knit shawls, Lace, Lightweight Mountain Peaks, Zephyr on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems like a long time since I finished my last shawl. Usually I knock one off every five weeks or so, but this one was an unusually slow knit, and has had a few issues as well.
Still, it is lovely.
It is also, as you can see, quite large! It measures 34″ from neck to [...]
Posted in Knit shawls, Lace, Socks, Works in progress, tagged Lightweight Mountain Peaks, Lace, shawl, Habu, Shetland Garden Faroese Shawl, Socks on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I did a little bit of re-organization last week on this blog. While I was going through some old posts, it struck me that I’ve been getting lazy about taking good photos. So, of course, we then had dark, cloudy skies for several days in a row, with a little rain here and there. This [...]
Posted in Finished projects, Knit shawls, Lace, tagged Icarus, Lace, shawl on November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Somewhere, in my house, rests a zip-top bag with 250 blocking pins. Can I find it? Of course not. Good thing the blocking wires were out in the open!
You’ll recall (or maybe not) that I knit the Icarus Shawl last May, using Claudia’s Handpainted silk laceweight. It came out beautiful, of course. Then, in September, [...]
Posted in Finished projects, Knit shawls, Lace, tagged Icarus, Knit shawls, Lace on September 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I wish, I wish, I wish that I could take a decent photograph of this shawl.
Alas, it is not to be.
Pattern: Icarus Shawl, by Mirian Felton, published in Interweave Knits, Summer 06.
Materials: Claudia’s Handpainted Yarns, Silk Lace, color “Woodland Moss.”
Needles: Size 3 circular
Cast on: May 26, 2007
Finished: June 26, 2007
I can’t say enough about the [...]
Posted in Finished projects, Knit shawls, Lace, tagged Knit shawls, Lace, Peacock Feathers, Zephyr on August 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Materials: Jaggerspun Zephyr laceweight, color “peacock”
Needles: size 5 circulars
Pattern: Peacock Feathers Shawl, from Fiddlesticks Knitting
Cast on: June 27, 2007
Finished: July 28, 2007
A friend of mine bought a whole 1 pound cone of laceweight Zephyr. I’m not sure if the realization of just how much laceweight yarn 5,040 yards really is occured to her at the [...]
