and it's been cool enough here lately to wear it! Yay Fall!!!Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Derailed Again
Another pattern idea has messed with my schedule :) This was born of a desire to knit garter stitch stripes in a shawl that I would actually wear. The shape is an asymmetrical triangle and the stripes are random. I used leftovers from my other shawls I've knit this summer for both of these. The pattern is going out to testers today!
In YOTM news - my May yarn project is finally done!
My August yarn project has been cast on:
July's yarn is still untouched. It will be a cooler weather sweater anyway, so I doubt I'll get to it before the end of the month.
In YOTM news - my May yarn project is finally done!
My August yarn project has been cast on:
July's yarn is still untouched. It will be a cooler weather sweater anyway, so I doubt I'll get to it before the end of the month.
This is my September yarn - Yarn Chef Creme Brulee laceweight. Silk and merino. Yum. I may not cast on for this until early in 2012 because I am so far behind on other things I want to get done sooner. I have another idea for a pattern that I want to use this for too.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Yarn-of-the-Month Update
August yarn is tosh merino light in Rosewood.
July yarn was Tosh Merino DK in Hearth.
Neither has been cast on. First I want to finish my May YOTM sweater. I am nearing the end of the body on that. Then there's sleeve island to look forward to...
I am muchly behind on my 12 sweaters for 2011, so I'm trying to concentrate on that. The Hearth TMDK will most likely be a Harvest Moon Cardigan and I'm thinking of striping the Rosewood tml with another color or 2 for a loose-gauge striped summer pullover. I am getting very interested in a couple of methods of top-down set-in sleeve sweater knitting. Sewing in sleeves is not my idea of a good time :)
July yarn was Tosh Merino DK in Hearth.
Neither has been cast on. First I want to finish my May YOTM sweater. I am nearing the end of the body on that. Then there's sleeve island to look forward to...I am muchly behind on my 12 sweaters for 2011, so I'm trying to concentrate on that. The Hearth TMDK will most likely be a Harvest Moon Cardigan and I'm thinking of striping the Rosewood tml with another color or 2 for a loose-gauge striped summer pullover. I am getting very interested in a couple of methods of top-down set-in sleeve sweater knitting. Sewing in sleeves is not my idea of a good time :)
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Stella Luna is released into the wild!
My second shawl pattern has been published on Ravelry!
This has been such an interesting summer in the shawl-knitting arena for me. First, the MadMay design contest inspired me to refine a shawl idea I'd had for awhile and my Litchfield Shawl was born. Then my yarn-of-the-month for June inspired me to pull out another idea I had awhile back leading to my Stella Luna pattern. I'm really glad I kept my old sketches!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
It Worked!
Currently working on #2 in one color.How come everything I knit lately makes me buy more yarn? I had to buy a 2nd skein of my MC of this latest shawl, plus I started using some Sundara Fingering Meino Cashmere for another project and liked it so much that I ordered 3 more skeins. And I'm still buying tml. May and June have really increased the size of my stash....
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Designing Bug - I haz it...
Here's the 2nd knit of my new pattern which is now up on Ravelry!
And here's the start of the 3rd go -
so I went browsing throught the gazillion 2-color shawl patterns I have faved on Ravelry. But you know what? I want to design something myself :) So I pulled out a sketch from I-don't-know-when of a shawl idea I had, thought about how to make it 2-color, drug out a bunch of stitch pattern books and shawl-construction ideas and got to work! No idea if it's going to work out - I've ripped and reknit the beginning about 10 times. And about 6" in I can tell that I should have done some things differently. So it hasn't been the smooth process that my Litchfield pattern was but that's okay. They can't all go that well! If it's a total flop, I'll rip it out. That's the cool thing about knitting, right?
And here's the start of the 3rd go -
That yarn I drew for this month? I knew I wanted to pair it with another skein of Sundara Sock I have -
so I went browsing throught the gazillion 2-color shawl patterns I have faved on Ravelry. But you know what? I want to design something myself :) So I pulled out a sketch from I-don't-know-when of a shawl idea I had, thought about how to make it 2-color, drug out a bunch of stitch pattern books and shawl-construction ideas and got to work! No idea if it's going to work out - I've ripped and reknit the beginning about 10 times. And about 6" in I can tell that I should have done some things differently. So it hasn't been the smooth process that my Litchfield pattern was but that's okay. They can't all go that well! If it's a total flop, I'll rip it out. That's the cool thing about knitting, right?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
May Madness
The upside to yarn-buying sprees? They can be inspiring:
This is my new pattern! Inspired by (a very small portion of) the yarn I bought this month, MadMay on ravelry - http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/madelinetosh-lovers/1623993/1-25 and my Merrywood Afghan -
(This is one corner folded over a towel.) I am working on a reknit and have a lovely knitter helping me test the pattern before I release it. And I've already picked out colors for #3!
This is my new pattern! Inspired by (a very small portion of) the yarn I bought this month, MadMay on ravelry - http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/madelinetosh-lovers/1623993/1-25 and my Merrywood Afghan -
(This is one corner folded over a towel.) I am working on a reknit and have a lovely knitter helping me test the pattern before I release it. And I've already picked out colors for #3!I finished another MadMay project -
And So Are You by Rose Beck in Northumbria tosh merino light. I'm working on the yarn I drew last month - more tml in Filigree - but this has been on hold while I worked on my new idea.
I have knit with nothing but tml this month! For June I drew this - I only have one skein of it left. It will have to wait awhile though. I really want to finish reknitting my design and get it 'published'!
And So Are You by Rose Beck in Northumbria tosh merino light. I'm working on the yarn I drew last month - more tml in Filigree - but this has been on hold while I worked on my new idea.
I have knit with nothing but tml this month! For June I drew this - I only have one skein of it left. It will have to wait awhile though. I really want to finish reknitting my design and get it 'published'!
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