Thursday, January 20, 2005
So Excited I Can Hardly Stand It!

Check it out! I only have six more rows until the main knitting on the Seascape Shawl is finished!


In case you're counting. that's 2910 stitches. Then I get to start the edgings.

Seriously, I really never thought I'd finish it....

My Very own Fiber Producers

A few posts ago in the comments, Ginger asked to see soemthing made of handspun Samoyed. Because Sammie yarn is so warm, I usually make small accessory items out of it.

My favorite ever project is the omni-present Multi-Directional Scarf, made long and skinny out of a mix of 50-50 sammie and merino wool.

I had a bag of handpainted color samples from Michelle Wipplinger that I had purchased at Maryland Sheep and Wool over 10 years ago. I divided them up into individual colors, and carded them together with the sammie, then spun and navajo plied.

People who "know yarn" will stop me on the street and ask if it's Noro Korchoran. It's actually prettier and fuzzier than Korchoran. Here's a shot of the sammie blend on the left and Korchoran on the right.


It's kind of fun to go from this:


CH Shaman's Play It Again Sam HIC (Ilsa)
To this:



Re-Use, Re-Cycle, Re-Knit, Re-Dux

Okay, so I said in my last post I had decide FOR SURE what I was going to do for the Re-KAL.

I was wrong.

I am still going to use the Silver Streak yarn, which now looks like this:


But instead of the Geometric Kimono, I'm going to make up my own modular pattern. Quite frankly, and with apologies to Valentina Devine, the Geometric Kimono pattern sucked.

I've done a fair amount of modular knitting and one of the things I love about it is the mathematic preciseness.*

The Geometric Kimono pattern had you picking up bizarre numbers of stitches that didn't match the module already knitted. Just as my frustration was peaking, I received a fortuitous postcard in the mail from LaLana advertising yet another Valentina Devine pattern. Here it is.

I like it even better than the Geometric Kimono, but given my experience with previous Valentina Devine pattern, I think I can improve on it if I do my own variation. Stay tuned....

*Don't get the idea that I am some kind of math whiz. Far from it. I can't even balance a check book. And i stillcount on my fingers when necessary. But I love things that "work out".

Cute Kira picture over here...


Anne at 10:57 AM        
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