Posted in Finished Projects, Knitting & Crochet on Nov 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
Made from the left over Suri Merino.
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Suri Merino in shade Garden (421)
Pattern: My own (2×4 rib and then decreases)
Needles: 6mm Knit Picks circs and 6mm Denise Interchangeables (used for decreases)
This was a fun, simple knit. Very easy and quick and now I have a matching beanie to my lovely shawl… [...]
Posted in Finished Projects, Knitting & Crochet on Nov 25th, 2007 12 Comments »
I have just finished pinning this out for blocking. In all it’s glory:
The Acorn and Leaf pattern:
And the panelling all the way through:
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Suri Merino in Shade Garden (421)
Pattern: Leaf & Acorn Lace Shawl by Shui Kuen Kozinski
Needles: 7mm Surina Straights
This was a great knit. The pattern is [...]
Posted in Knitting & Crochet on Nov 22nd, 2007 8 Comments »
While I’ve been without the ‘net, I should’ve been knitting up what’s in my stash. Supposedly. Now if you look at my Ravelry list, you can see that I’m not short on stash that needs to be used up, in fact, I’m never going to be able to use all of that up [...]
Posted in Daily Musings on Nov 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
Apologies to those that noticed that I’ve been off line for the last couple of days.
My lovely provider saw fit to shut me off for a couple of days, with no notification. Having noticed, I contacted them and found that there was a problem with an invoice. I’d paid it, they thought I hadn’t. On [...]
Posted in Daily Musings, Finished Projects, Knitting & Crochet on Nov 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
I am a very, very happy bunny. We have INTERNET. Full-blown, on-my-own-laptop, wireless, high-bandwidth, pretty-pictures, peoples-blogs, more-yarn kinda internet. What this means is that I can surf all day, every day if I so choose. We are no longer limited to evenings on Ollie’s laptop, connected to the Net through Ollie’s [...]
Posted in Finished Projects, Knitting & Crochet on Nov 6th, 2007 12 Comments »
And the lace:
Yarn: Tess Dawson Merino 4 Ply in Cream (01)
Pattern: Rosamond Socks from Kate @ Haunted Yarns
Needles: 2.5mm Grafton Fibre DPN’s from Angel Yarns
I loved working with both this yarn and the pattern. The yarn knits up fantastically and I had NO KNOTS in either ball. As for the pattern, [...]
