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  • Yay me! Tier 2 complete

    21 to go........... Dillweed plays innocent and tries to resis the temptation of the stole on the floor I know-it doesn't look like much now. But I promise it's gorgeous! AND-the second tier went more smoothly than the f…

  • YAY ME! I have two squares of the second tier finished. I had to put aside my lace sacrf for now. I think I need different needles. The bamboos I am using are dull and driving me nuts and the nickel-plated ones are too s…

  • OH YUMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!! In this stash you see before you 2 more skeins of Maple Shimmer(because I didn't buy enough to finish the FPS), one Happy Dance Shimmer, one Jewels Heather Shimmer, one midnight Heather Alpaca …

  • Urgh. Forest Path Stole. Need I say anymore?I DID get the second tier started. And again, it took me more than one start to get it going. Fortunately I got it going in LESS than 10 attempts! LOLMy zephyr in soft white ar…

  • FINALLY!

    I achieve success. I HOPE. A completed tier 1. FINALLY. AFter umpteen trillion false starts! I am just in love with this pattern. I definitely think I need to re-do it in a solid color. The idea of white followed by a p…

  • ace is not something you want to do when irritated at your soon-to-be-teen. I sent said soon-to-be-teen to bed TWO hours early last night because she was "too sick to load the dishwasher". ARGH! Soon-to-be-teen decided r…

  • I did it. I bought 4 skeins of Lorna's Laces Lion and lamb. My friend Margaret thought that Tuscany would be better...it will when I make it. BUT I couldn't resist. I HAD to buy the Flame. It's so bright and cheery and j…

  • sadly I can see that my FPS is going to be a slow go. I can only work on it when there are no littel hands in my work, no kittens being dropped on my lap, no children trying to "help" me. It's going to be one or two squ…

  • Oh the joys of learning new things...............After completing the entire border and first base triangle, tearing it out and starting it again, making it 11 rows only to drop several stitches and frogging the shawl to…

  • Ahh tax time!

    I ordered Zephyr yarn today for the weddign shawl. Oh I love tax time money to play with.AND-sweet success after three tries on the base, and one triangle done correctly. A bit of a tangle, but I got the pattern figured…

  • Children and knitting projects:

    Llike oil and water. Sigh. Little boys who think knitting needles are swords are very detrimental to knitting anything delicate and lacy. Particularly when the delicate and lacy is on the needles at the time of the "Erro…

  • I have the base an one triangle done! It's slow going, and if I get distracted by the kids, oh golly! On March 3rd, a friend who spins the most deliscious yarns is going to come up here and teach my girls and I how to ha…

  • Oh I am in knitting heaven. A challenge has been laid at my feet! The pattern is CHARTED! So I have to learn to knit off a chart. I've made lace from charts oin crochet before, but it's always one or two stitches. Either…

  • Happy Birthday to me!

    It came! It came! Can you guess what I'll be starting today?? I was going to take pictures of it in the hanks, but I couldn't wait to go wind it into the little cakes. And THEN my husband tortured me by driving all ove…

  • Birthday casserole is in the crockpot-cabbage roll casserole. I love the flavor of the rolls, but hate the headache of making the rolls. It just gets mangled on your plate anyway. Russian black bread is in the bread mac…

  • Kitten from the depths

    The infamous "Kitten from the Depth"-Dillweed. He was rescued from our chicken coop by a young man from our church goose hunting on our property. He nearly died the day we got him from malnourishment, exposure and pneum…

  • Ah lace

    Ah the joys of knitting lace. I had made wonderful progress on my beautiful scarf. Made it up to 11 repeats of the pattern and I only need to do 23 total. It goes fast if I pay attention. And then.......dun dun dun......…

  • First lace

    Well, I figured that since I was going to start making a lace shawl, I'd better attempt to make lace for the first time, so.............. This is that yarn I bought off etsy. It's not nearly as brilliant as the origin…

  • Didn't make it to Ewe Count yesterday...oh well. I'll hit the Mercanitle today. have to go and get my shotgun out of storage anyway and take care of a critter problem on the homestead.I get to start knitting a shawl in W…

  • One shawl, completed except for tucked loose ends-the yarn needle fairies have been to my house and stolen all the yarn needls, so it's a trip to my FAVORITE fiber and needle arts store tomorrow perhaps. Oh golly help …

  • Oh it's official. I have crossed over the the dark side.http://www.heartstringsfiberarts.com/rectangu.shtm

  • BTW-My yarn for the Forest Path Stole wasn't an outrageously priced yarn-it's from Knitpicks.com, and was only 5.50 a hank. Funny, I use dto cringe if yarn was over 2 dollars. Hmm............

  • Sigh

    An just when I think I've found enough cool patterns, what do I do? I go reading blogs of other KAL members..............These are the MOST incredible afghans! They really appeal to me, which is odd because the designers…

  • Okay, so that beautiful shawl in the blog below this one?? I showed my husband the pattern yesterday. And I discovered a knit-along in progreess that actually started today on that very shawl! I was bummed because I miss…

  • What is it

    about knitting? I mean really. I've crocheted for YEARs. Caron and Red Heart were good enough for me. I would see patterns(mainly doilies) that I liked. But knitting...I've gone from "If I don't learn THIS time, I'm nev…

  • Projects in the works

    I'm back. Current projects on needles: Mari's shawl in late december^Mari's Shawl today^ it's now over 5 feet across the shoulder portion, so I am contemplating binding off and finishing it. This is a clapotis-pattern …

  • Oh this pattern is too too gorgeous!http://www.tkga.com/pdf/WristWarmers.pdfAs if I dobn't have enough projects on the needles(pcitures to come) and enough patterns......sigh the 3-ring binder just keeps getting fatter a…

  • Oh it was inevitable. The yarn snob beast inside me couldn't hold out any longer. I now have my own knitting blog. The addiction is complete.Here's some sites to tempt you and cause trouble. I've been accused of it you k…

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