My current work in progress:

1. Viajante, designed by Martina Behm, knit in Kauni wool on U.S. size 6 needles.
2. Myriad stealth projects.

Change of Plans

May 19, 2013 By 5 Comments

I started swatching with the silk I showed in my last blog post and decided it wasn’t right for what I had in mind. So it went back into the stash room and I started something else.

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This is the beginning of the Triquetra Capelet which appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Interweave Knits.

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I am knitting mine from Rowan Purelife British Sheep Breeds Chunky Undyed in “Black Welsh Mountain.”

And of course I am incorporating some mods. I am making mine much longer. I’ve got lots of yarn, so I can easily add a lot of length to it.

The capelet has a large Celtic knot in each panel around, and the knot spans the length of the piece. Here’s the start of a knot:

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Because I am making mine longer, I need to add some length to the knot motif. I’m adding a series of repeats of circles. Well, it’ll be easier to describe when I have a bit more done. And I won’t start the decreases for a while.

That means I currently have 658 stitches on the needles.

Lucy is impressed.

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Something New

May 15, 2013 By 28 Comments

First things first, thanks to everyone who left a comment to be entered in the yarn bowl giveaway sponsored by  StardustPottery. The random number generator has spoken and has chosen Julia, who has an email addy that ends in earthlink.net. Julia has been emailed so if this sounds like you, check your email!

Lucy thanks you for all your good wishes on the anniversary of her having come to live with me. In celebration, here is the first photo I ever posted of her, on May 12, 2003:

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Look at how light-colored her body fur is. She was 2 years old at the time I adopted her (so she is 12 now) and her coat darkened in the first year after she came to live with me.

Lucy today:

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I am finishing up the second prototype for my upcoming Summer Mystery Shawl this evening, so will be needing a new project.

Here’s the yarn I plan to use:

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This is a natural colored China silk that I purchased from Handknitting.com. You can see it here.

(Do you know about Handknitting.com? They have some great yarns at very good prices.)

I am going to do something lacy with this yarn. Stay tuned.

In other news, I am going to Camp Loopy this summer! How about you?

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Bowled Over

May 12, 2013 By
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First of all, the winner of my copy of Scandinavian Stitch Craft: Unique Projects and Patterns for Inspired Embroidery is Bobbi, who has been emailed. Second, I finally wrote up the pattern for the rainbow Kauni wrap I knit a while back and the pattern is available on Ravelry, here. Now. on to new business [...]

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Scandinavian Stitch Craft

May 8, 2013 By
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I have another lovely book to review, this one not on the topic of knitting, but embroidery. This is Scandinavian Stitch Craft: Unique Projects and Patterns for Inspired Embroidery by Karin Holmberg. The book uses traditional Scandinavian embroidery techniques in a collection of projects (both clothing and housewares). There are thirty projects in all, and [...]

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Viajante Unbound

May 5, 2013 By
Lucy050513

Ta-da! Early this morning I bound off the last stitches of Viajante. It seems as though I had been working on this for a very long time, but a check of the project page in Ravelry tells me that I started this on April 17. So . . . not all that long. Knit using [...]

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