By Wendy on March 15, 2010
My “stolen time” worked out well for me, because last night I finished knitting my Chevron Stole.
Here it is pre-blocking.
It measures 22″ wide by 50″ long.
The b locking photo is sort of boring because the lace does not show up well on my black foam blocking board. But here you go.
It now measures 26″ wide [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged blog, chevron, lace, pattern details, skeins, stolen time
By Wendy on March 1, 2010
I mentioned last week that when I finished the Chevron Shawlette, I was going to knit a Chevron Stole using the same stitch motifs.
I have started said stole and here it is.
This is more Madelinetosh Tosh Sock yarn, this in the “logwood” colorway. The stole will take more yarn than the shawlette, so I bought [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged chevron, crafter, logwood, skeins, stitches, yarn
By Wendy on February 25, 2010
Bind-off of the Chevron Shawlette will commence in five, four, three, two . . .
As soon as this baby is off the needles, I will cast on for the Chevron Stole. Conveniently, the yarn I have planned to use for the Chevron stole arrived in my Loopy Ewe order today.
I do so like it when [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged fluffy fur, fur coat, logwood, loopy ewe, miss woodhouse, one skein, skeins
By Wendy on January 10, 2010
Yesterday I finished my Aestlight Shawl.
When I finished the body of it and looked at the edging chart, I decided I really didn’t care for the pattern as written, so I subbed my own edging. It’s actually the edging I winkled together for The Exonumist’s Shawl (Ravelry link).
Before blocking, my Aestlight had a wingspan of [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged enchanted wood, famous painter, hands and knees, kind comments, shawl, skeins
By Wendy on December 27, 2009
I hope you all had a great holiday. Lucy and I did! Even my little Droid got a present:
A cellphone beanbag chair!
Here is Lucy’s favorite new toy:
A tear strip from a box. Gotta love kitties!
Right before Christmas I put my Talisman Shawl pattern up for sale on Ravelry for $5.00 for a pdf download. Here [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged colorway, ravelry, shawl pattern, skeins, steam iron
Aestlight Shawl
By Wendy on January 10, 2010
Yesterday I finished my Aestlight Shawl.
When I finished the body of it and looked at the edging chart, I decided I really didn’t care for the pattern as written, so I subbed my own edging. It’s actually the edging I winkled together for The Exonumist’s Shawl (Ravelry link).
Before blocking, my Aestlight had a wingspan of [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged enchanted wood, famous painter, hands and knees, kind comments, shawl, skeins