Pattern: The Proverbial Cap by Meg SwansenYarn: Naturally dyed wool from somewhere in the Michigan UPNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs So, if you first don’t succeed in making a hat for your brother, you make a hat for his partner instead!    This is for S, and fortunately, this time around, I had plenty […]

So that Knotty hat I was working on?    Look how close I got to finishing it when I ran out of yarn.     Sigh.     It’s a shame too – the fabric was nice and thick, and I think it would have been a great hat.   But I only have the one skein, so back to the drawing

The quest to use up the leftover Anzula Cloud from my shawl begins.   I’ve completed the above hat and baby socks, and still have more left than I’d like to make into Hexipuffs.    I have to do some measuring of what I have left.    Maybe some nice, lacy fingerless mitts… For something to tide me

Pattern: Evenstar Shawl by Susan PandorfYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I finally got around to blocking the Evenstar Shawl. That was fairly exciting – even my bed wasn’t quite big enough to do it completely flat.    Fortunately though, because I stocked up on blocking pins, I at

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