Just Knitting Around

Koigu eyelet rib footies

Originally uploaded by Dtkpmom.

The traditional back to school essay works for me too. I am a terrible blogger, maybe I’ll get better soon. Here are the footies I made our of the leftover Koigu from my Diamond Fantasy Shawl. They have an eyelet rib pattern on the instep and […]

Yeah, I know I probably am not the first to use the title for a blog post about the DFS, but what else is there. I think I am out of diamond references.
Details:
Diamond Fantasy Shawl (Sivia Harding)
Knit from chart-9 repeats
4 skeins (+ a smidge of the 5th) Koigu KPPPM color 121
size US […]

Yes, here is MY Diamond Fantasy shawl in the severe blocking stage (4 year old boy included for scale). Boy did this grow when fully blocked out. I threaded a cotton crochet thread through the i-cord bind off and pulled the string taut. Then I pinned out all the points. I […]

Diamond Fantasy Pre-Blocking

Originally uploaded by Dtkpmom.

How long has it been? I bought the yarn over a year ago, and started the Diamond Fantasy Shawl around May 2, 2006 and last posted about it on May 9 2006. Shortly after I attached the second ball of yarn, I set it aside.
Some of […]

…at least the knitting seems to take forever. Don’t get me wrong, I an enjoying it, but it is definately an at home, do not disturb me right now I’m trying to fix a big honnkin mistake counting type of project. So most of the knitting time is done after everyone but […]

Here is the start of my Diamond Fantasy Shawl. I have joined the DF KAL, officially starting to knit mine yesterday on May 1st. I swatched on April 30. I started with size 5 Denise needles, and felt it was too open. I seem to knit loosely and didn’t want to […]