Category: crafting

  • winner!

    Wow, the comments on that Vogue giveaway post were awesome. I loved reading about all the types of lace you guys love. A few non-scientific popular trends from the comments, off the top of my head:

    – Estonian lace (nupps!)
    – large scale lace (I love this too)
    – shawlettes (is anyone surprised?)
    – floral/organic/leafy shapes

    The Random Number Generator has spoken and the winner is comment number 404, from Eliza: “I actually had to read the comments to determine what different types of lace there are! I like to knit lace shawls, but Iā€™m also working on a large format lace cardigan.”

    To cap off this post, a little bit of fingering weight lace I was working on this week (man this colour is hard to photograph – it’s the Sliver Moon Farm stuff from a couple posts ago):

    purple in progress

    Thanks for playing everyone!

  • saturday morning coffee

    coffee

    I really can’t handle the caffeine from coffee or tea (boooooo) so I’ve just not been drinking them. Then I realized that do have some nice decaf beans! Hurrah! Made some strong espresso in the mokapot and having it in my favourite mug from Anthropologie.

    Starting a new swatch, too – Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in Douglas Fir.

  • v-neck

    v-neck

    Took a few tries (had to rip back a bit due to shoulder miscalculation) but I finished knitting up the yoke the other night and joined the shoulders with a three-needle bindoff. Something about the shape of the neckline in this particular sweater really tickles my fancy!

    Then came some nice twisted ribbing. Works really well with this tweedy yarn. Too bad the dressform kind of lacks shoulders, it makes it look like they’re falling off! Needs a good blocking to help everything relax.

    twisted rib

    The seamless set-in sleeve technique that I’m using is from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Workshop.