Just Knitting Around

HH1st blocking

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Here is HH in all her glory. I forgot to post her final pic. Now I just have to get the right outfit to wear it with this spring.

I am such a geek. I am knitting Hyrna Herborgar from the book Three-Cornered and Long Shawls. I started a group on Ravelry to knit through the shawls in the book. A friend in my knitting group who also has the book mentioned she would like to know the stitch counts for […]

Christmas Gifts 2008

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The DH did good this Christmas. He can follow a Christmas list very well. No ad libbing when it comes to knitting gifts. Just in case you cant figure out the cone, Take a look below.

That’s 2.86 miles of laceweight yarn and a pattern that will use […]

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Finished about 1:30 am last night and blocked this afternoon. I had less than 7 yards of yarn left. I was worried I would run out, and bound off a little too tightly to make the “peaks” come out as shown in the pattern. I should have taken out […]

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It’s about 12:30 am, and I think the nupps ate up the yarn quicker than the Shawl Progress Calculator could account for. I have two rows and the bind off left at this point, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-3 grams of yarn. Some decisions need to be made. […]

I had begun to worry if I would have enough yarn left to finish Swallowtail. I used the shawl progress calculator at Rose Kim Knits. According to that, I am 75% finished with the shawl and according to my scale and calculations, I have used about 67% of the yarn. I think […]

Swallowtail and Habu Silk

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I started this Swallowtail (free .pdf) while on vacation a couple of weeks ago with my souvenir Habu silk bought at Knitch in Atlanta. The pic is from shortly after I got home. I am now on the first Lily of the Valley chart […]

Summer Shawlette Blocking 2

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Here is what I made with the remaining yarn from my Faux Russian. It’s the Summer Shawlette from Knitting Daily by Sandi Wiseheart. I upsized it a little since it was lace weight instead of fingering. I kept doing increases until it looked like it was […]

Faux Russian in the dyepot1

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Faux Russian in the dyepot. The water has almost cooled, and the dye is not fully exhausted. Maybe I used a little too much dye? I cooked it for about an hour, and it has been cooling over 3 hours.

Faux Russian 100%

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At 12:30 AM EST I finiished the knitting of the Faux Russian. I am going to leave the grafting for tomorrow since I am so tired I annot see straight. Tomorrow I dye and block, Wednesday I pack and Thursday I leave for the Big Apple.

Snow 3

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I got a bit of knitting done on the shawl and reached the halfway point last night. This picture is why I got caught up last weekend after falling behind. Without the big snow, I never would have gotten this far since I was supposed to […]

Faux Russian

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I do love a good white Russian. This one is a pretender. It is the Faux Russian Stole from a Gathering of Lace. My plan is to wear it when I go to New York at the end of the month. I wanted something classy for the symphony […]

Koigu eyelet rib footies

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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

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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 […]

This is the Flower Petal Shawl (Free Pattern on Elann.com). I started it on January 8. The knitting went quickly at first. I started with just 4 stitches on the needle. At the end there were 300. Now I am on the 9th “tail” out of 12 on the […]

Here is another picture of Clapotis. Plus I added another one in the gallery.
To answer some questions I have gotten to yesterday’s post, here are the project details: I used a single strand of Cherry Tree Hill Silk and Merino DK in Java and size US7 Denise needles. I had 2 skeins and used […]