By Wendy on March 2, 2010
I don’t have much to blog about today because most of my knitting time last night was used dozing off and waking up until I finally gave up and went to bed. And my knitting time on my commute is taken up by a stealth project.
However, I can show you a close-up of the cast-on [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged artificial sweeteners, garter stitch, lace pattern, lace section, stealth project
By Wendy on February 22, 2010
The red lace shawlette that I finished last week has a name: the Lady Bertram Shawlette. (I was on a Jane Austen kick there for a while).
She had her photo-shoot for her glamour photos.
The unblocked shawl measures 44” across the top and 16” down the center back. Blocked it measures 58” across and 23” down [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged glamour photos, harbinger of spring, lace pattern, lady bertram, sock yarn
By Wendy on February 17, 2010
That is the question.
In the photo of my shawl in progress yesterday, you may have noticed that I have the pattern repeats marked with stitchmarkers. I have since removed the markers.
Most of the time, I prefer to knit lace without stitchmarkers. I put them in this project, because I took it with me to work [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged dotted lines, knitting, lace pattern, maneuver, mid row, shawl, yarn shop
By Wendy on February 16, 2010
Here’s the yarn I bought while at fibre space yesterday:
That’s, reading from left to right, Dragonfly Fibers Dragon Sock in the Prophets of Persia, Golden Pear, and Villainness colorways, Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the Clover colorway, and Miss Babs Yummy in the Spring Lettuce colorway.
Winners!
The Random Number Generator has chosen five winners in the Crazy [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged book contest, crazy aunt, dragonfly, fibers, golden pear, lace pattern, lace shawl, random number generator, sock yarn, triangle shape
By Wendy on January 6, 2010
Not the brand of vegetables, the lace pattern.
I finally made it to the Bird’s Eye Lace portion of the Aestlight Shawl.
I would have made more progress had I not done something stupid halfway through the first repeat. As I knit I realized that the holes in the pattern weren’t lining up properly, so I had [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged backtrack, enchanted wood, first clue, lace pattern, preview copy, ravelry, shawl, vegetables
