I finished the Echo Flowers shawl on Sunday – here it is in its unblocked glory. I’m planning on doing a full post with the slight modifications I made when I’ve actually blocked it, and can take comparison pictures. So I’m now back to working on the Maude Louise sweater. I’m planning on not casting […]
Work is progressing on the Maude Louise sweater. It’s an easy knit, and I’m nearly to the end of the back. The only slightly bad point is the lattice pattern. To get gauge, I actually had to go up two needle sizes (apparently all that lace knitting was making me tighten worse than usual). Even
I think I can safely say that I hate nupps. I’m in nupp hell with the Echo Flower shawl at the moment. On my first attempt, the nupps were so tight, there was no way I’d be able to purl them back to move on, and I’d rather stupidly not strung a lifeline on that
I’ve been plugging along on the Echo Flowers Shawl. It’s been going really well, for the most part. Once I got a good handle on how loose the 9 out of three stitches needed to be, I was progressing along quite nicely. I’d had to set it down for a little more than a week
Here’s the knitting project du jour. It’s the Echo Flowers Shawl, which I’m doing in Tess’s Designer Yarns Superwash Merino Lace in a lovely purple and blue colorway. So far, so good. Once I managed to get the appropriate level of looseness for the 9 into 3 stitches, everything fell into place, and I really
Pattern: Barrow by Kirsten KapurYarn: Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino in the Silver Bay colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs What will probably be my final Sockdown socks for the year are done. These were done for the cable portion of the May challenge. I really enjoyed this pattern. It looks way more complicated than it actually
Barrow socks number one is done! I’m definitely enjoying the pattern. It looks way more complicated than it really is, which is not to say it’s super easy, but it’s easy enough I can watch tv while working on it. The Beckon sock yarn is interesting. It varies between a fairly thin and plumper strand
Pattern: Claudia Hat by MJ KimYarn: Fibre Canopy Canopy Worsted, in the Yerba Mate colorwayNeedles: 4 and 6 circs, and 6 DPNs My second effort in this Fibre Company Canopy Worsted is a keeper. I should really have known that I much prefer hats that fit closer to my head before I started the Star
Work is progressing on my two current knitting projects. (I recently bought a laptop, so I have to confess to spending some of what is normally knitting time in front of the tv doing file clean up on the laptop instead.) I don’t remember if I mentioned before, but I started on the Barrow socks
I’m doing Kristi Kapur’s Barrow socks, which I got for my first installment of the Three Irish Girls sock yarn club way back when. The pattern calls for knitting on two circs, so I’d been holding it in reserve for when I wanted to try circs. Since doing that magic loop class a couple months