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All Blocked and Ready for Action

By Wendy on November 2, 2009

I’ve released the Two-Thirds Shawl from its bondage. Here is Gwendolyn modeling her new shawl.

She’s stylin’.

Thanks for all your lovely comments about this shawl. It was great fun to knit, and not particularly difficult. The only arduous bit was that by the time I bound off there were 605 stitches on my needles. I confess [...]

Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, google, google image search, hateful thoughts, shawl, sock yarns, tea party

Before and After

By Wendy on November 1, 2009

Before:

It measures 24″ down the center back and has a 60″ wingspan.
After:

After a bath in warm water and woolwash, pinned out for blocking, it measures 30″ down the center back and has a wingspan of 70″.

To recap, this is the Two-Thirds Shawl (my own design) knit from Handmaiden Mini Maiden in the “Periwinkle” colorway, on [...]

Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, handmaiden, shawl, warm water, wingspan

Back to What Passes for Normal

By Wendy on October 27, 2009

It was back to work today for me. Whee.
And back to my regularly scheduled knitting projects. I don’t believe that I ever showed you that I completed my first Bamboo sock:

And a close-up:

I finished that last week before I left for Oklahoma. And I’ve made some decent progress on the second sock:

I’m also knitting on [...]

Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged blob, knitting projects, miss lucy, mousie, shawl, sock yarn, two thirds

Parade of WIPs

By Wendy on October 14, 2009

I currently have an almost-unheard-of-for-me three knitting projects in progress. Let’s review, shall we?

This is my traveling sock which is growing very slowly. (And I don’t seem able to take a non-blurry photo of it.) I started it on my trip to Virginia Beach last month and then stopped working on it when I got [...]

Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged blurry photo, catnip, knitting projects, shawl, stockinette

Hot Hot Hot

By Wendy on October 12, 2009

Today is Columbus Day and I have spent the day reclining on the couch, one hand trailing on the floor, a la Greta Garbo Camille. I have done no knitting and very little else that can be even remotely considered productive.
But I did have a great, action-packed weekend at Sip n’ Knit in Maitland Florida.

Gotta [...]

Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged columbus day, giant sheep, greta garbo, maitland florida, shawl

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