Category: knitting

  • a week past

    I’m sure you’ve seen Ysolda’s awesome TNNA booth around the internets, but I’ve some photos to share too! Who cares that they’re a little late?

    the whole booth

    Looking into the booth from the aisle. Featuring Olgajazzzy in the middle!

    gudrun's corner

    Gudrun’s beautiful corner.

    sweaters and shawls

    My own corner!

    fab posters for Little Red in the City

    I LOVE these posters for Ysolda’s upcoming book, Little Red in the City – those buttons and skeins of yarn were surprisingly difficult to pin up there though!

    small bob

    Small Bob hangin’ with the toys and trains.

    photobooth photos

    Fantastic photos hanging outside the photobooth. So fun.

    And for a bit of knitting content, the shrug I was working on before TNNA, and before I was sidelined by my elbow pain:

    sweetgeorgia merino silk DK

    It’s in Sweetgeorgia Merino Silk DK, and though I didn’t get to wear it in Columbus, I’m back working on it now! Mmmm, silky.

  • 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!

  • I love yarn

    Because it’s sooooo pretty!

    Merino Fingering from local dyer Viola, in Sea Storm:
    sea storm

    Sliver Moon Farm merino fingering in Smoky Plum:
    so pretty

    Colinette Jitterbug in Oyster Blush:
    jitterbug in oyster blush

    I’m madly in love with all these yarns at the moment. Good thing they don’t expect me to be faithful!