By Wendy on February 4, 2010
Unblocked, the Miss Woodhouse Shawl was 50″ across the top, 16″ down the center back.
Blocked she is 66″ across the top, 25″ down the center back.
I used a size 6 (4mm) needle and one skein of MadelineTosh Tosh Sock in the “Oak B” colorway with 24 grams left over.
Expect a pattern presently.
Lucy is beside herself [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, miss woodhouse, one skein, shawl, size 6
By Wendy on February 3, 2010
I’m fairly close to the finish of my current shawlette and I gotta tell you — the suspense is killing me.
Because I am far too lazy and impatient to do anything like actually swatch out the lace before starting work on it, I’ve been designing it on the fly. In fact, the last two charts [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, greeny, lace, lucy, one skein, sock yarn, triangle
By Wendy on January 27, 2010
Yep, I’m working on a new shawlette. Clearly I have shawlette fever.
I cheated on the pic I showed you yesterday, because it is from Sunday afternoon. Here is the current state of the shawlette.
Sorry for the crappy flash pic — it’s dark, so hard to get a good shot.
I’m knitting this from one of my [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, crappy flash, needle size, one skein, sock yarn, sock yarns
By Wendy on January 19, 2010
As I mentioned yesterday, I finished the shawlette that I was working on last week on Saturday evening.
Here it is in its unblocked state.
Cat included for scale. Unblocked, it measures a petite 40″ across the top and 20″ down the center back.
And here it after blocking.
It now measures a surprising 54″ across the top, and [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, doctors without borders, gwendolyn, saturday evening, state cat, weight yarn, zzzzzzzzzz
By Wendy on January 11, 2010
Well, I sat down yesterday afternoon after posting to my blog to knit the first row of my Enchanted Woods shawl and after knitting across approximately 360 stitches (out of 375) discovered that there was an error in the first row of the pattern. I emailed The Unique Sheep and alerted them to it, and [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, first clue, shawls, silk blend, waiting in the wings, yesterday afternoon
