12 Shawls in 2012 Progress
In my last post I talked about finishing one final shawl before the end of the year, and I mentioned having no idea of how many shawls I’ve completed this year. And since I don’t know how many I’ve completed, I can’t know how close I am to my goal of completing 12 this year, (I finished 11 last year). So it’d probably be a good idea to count them, huh.
1. Ponycorns & Rainbow Fragments
2. Eirwen
3. Kora
Well, that’s sobering. But here’s the (kind of) embarrassing part:
I have 4 shawls waiting to be blocked. And 2 shawls that I just haven’t talked about. Yea…
I guess I’ll be frantically blocking shawls over the next couple weeks.
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Friday on a Monday
It’s obviously not Friday, it’s Monday (boo!). But here’s an finished object for FO Friday anyway.
So between all the various moves this summer I managed to misplace a whole heck of a lot of things, most of which I’ve since found, but some of which I haven’t. Somewhat impressively I managed to misplace every single hat I own. I’m positive I have some, somewhere in this apartment. I’ve torn this place apart multiple times trying to find them. They’re nowhere to be found. (And this is not a huge, or even very messy, apartment.)
I eventually realized that it would probably be faster to knit a hat then find any of mine. So I did. Just in time for the first snow storm of the year.
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Madelinetosh Merino, colorway: unknown, its a very rich dark blue if you want to take a guess.
Yardage: one skein (210 yards/192 meters)
Fiber Source: got it in a destash from a friend
Needles: 3.75 mm (US 5s) 40″ circulars for the tubular cast on; 4.5 mm (US 7s) 40″ circulars for the ribbing; and 6.00mm (US 10s) 40″ circulars for the main body of the hat. All knit using magic loop.
So I’m still waiting for all my other hats to show up, but at least I’m waiting with a warm head, and a cute hat.
FO: Eirwen
Pattern: My own (almost ready for publication)
Yarn: 1 skein Tosh lace, colorway: citrus (the orange); 1 skein Sweet Georgia merino/silk lace, colorway; dutch (the golden yellow)
Yardage: 1 skein Tosh lace (950 yards; 868 meters); 1 skein Sweet Georgia merino silk lace (765 yards; 700 meters). I had a fair amount of the Sweet Georgia left over and a small ball of the Tosh lace.
Needles: 3.25 mm (US 3s) 40″ circulars
