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 weekend’s exciting development in sewing was bias binding tape! Which I’m not entirely sure I really installed correctly, but it does make a nice, neat armhole. I also started on the yoke of the shirt, which is rather gather-rific. And since the fabric is so sheer, it’s really gathery. I’ll admit to a
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. This collection of short stories owes much to fairy tales – sometimes obviously, but other times a little less so. Some of my favorites include “The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn”, which has a rather amusing twist on the typical unicorn tale, “Cruel Sisters”,
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So my original plan on Sunday was to work on the shirt I cut out about two weeks ago. I got all the way through step 2 (see, there are pre-gathers!), and saw that I hadn’t read the notions list, and therefore didn’t have single fold bias tape. So that didn’t last very long. Since
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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.
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. The four books in this omnibus are all tales of the land of Dalemark. It’s long been divided into a North and South. When the last king died, the Earls took over the rule of the land. Those in the North are kind to their
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Some of the non-bulb and later bulb flowers are starting to appear. Thank goodness it seems to have finally warmed up for good! Today’s project was to finally get the peas planted. I meant to do it last weekend, but it just never happened. I was also able to get the trellis in for the
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
