By Wendy on February 24, 2010
The Printemps Shawlette pattern is complete and available for sale on Ravelry, here.
Like Miss Woodhouse, it’s a “more than a triangle shawl.” You work double the increases on the outer edges as you do on the inner edges to get this shape.
To make it a more open and airy design, the lace motif for the [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged different shape, inner edges, ravelry, shawl, skein, sock yarn, triangle shawl, wrong side
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 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 February 9, 2010
We’ve got another “major snow event” blowing through here tonight and tomorrow, so once again the federal government is closed and I am at home. Snow is supposed to start . . . well . . . any minute now.
Things had better be all clear by next Monday, because I’m doing a mini-trunk show at [...]
Posted in Wendy Knits | Tagged knitwear designer, miss woodhouse, presidents day, presidents day sale, sock yarn, wendy johnson
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