And here is my Evenstar Shawl, in all its unblocked glory, finished just this morning. I have laid in a stash of extra blocking pins in anticipation of blocking this – there are tons of little scallops on the edging, and I wanted to make sure I could block those properly.    Which, speaking of the

So after I finished the fish hat relatively early yesterday, I was then able to finish out chart three of the Evenstar Shawl.    What I didn’t realize until I then read ahead for the next chart’s instructions is that this was the last chart in the main body of the shawl, and I’ve actually made

Project: Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] by Thelma Egberts from the Winter 2008 KnittyNeedles: Size 8 DPNsYarn: Cascade 220 Heathers in Red and Green, Malabrigo Rios in Indicieta, Malabrigo Worsted in Taureg and Blue Moon Fibers Gaea in Corby The fish hat is done!   This is a really fun little pattern, and great for

I’m taking a little break from the Evenstar shawl (which is going really well – I’m toward the end of the third chart), for a birthday request.     This is the Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] from the Winter 2008 Knitty.    It’s great for using up scraps, so I did buy one yarn to tie what

I finished chart #2 of the Evenstar shawl during the week (long enough ago that the above picture has two repeats of the beginning of chart #3). I’m really enjoying this pattern – it’s really well written, with any of the odd stitches really well explained so that they’re not hard to figure out.    I’ve

I got through Chart 1 of the Evenstar shawl over the weekend.  I’d started it with size 3 DPNS, and got about 15 rows in when I messed up.    Fortunately, I’d been reconsidering my needle choice anyway, so I was able to restart it with size 4’s, and I’m much happier with those.   There’s enough

So this is how much Berroco Ultra Alpaca I had left.    I got two hexipuffs in, and realized I really had too much.    So I detoured into some Ruffle Rib Baby socks, and still managed two hexipuffs beyond that.

My birthday seemed like a fitting day to start on Susan Pandorf’s Evenstar shawl.   I purchased the yarn for it (Anzula Cloud’s Dusty Rose) back in the fall of 2011.     I’ve been sitting on it, feeling like I should be working through more my scrap yarn before tackling this pattern, but I’m pretty much done

Pattern:  Loria Mitts by Ashley KnowltonYarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine in the Oceanic colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNs Almost done with the Ultra Alpaca yarn!    I have a fair amount left, even after these mitts, but it’s an amount I’m comfortable finishing off as hexipuffs – I’ll be interested to see how many I get out