Mail Day
Yesterday I got a delivery from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.
The skein on the left is STR lightweight in Gail’s Autumn Joy, and the skein on the right is STR mediumweight in Dragon Dance. Gail’s Autumn Joy is destined to be a semi-lacy scarf inspired by snakeskin, and Dragon Dance is going to be knit into a second Birdy Shawl, with a very much more updated pattern and chart.
With the arrival of these two skeins I have a basket full of yarns to swatch. So, I’m planning on spending a large chunk of tomorrow first fighting with the printer, and then swatching, because other than Icy Fields and Que Sera (which is currently being ignored) I don’t have anything on the needles. So here’s two more Icy Fields photos.
In this photo is a little closer and you can see more of the stitch definition. I’ve knit another 4 or 5 rows since I took the picture and hope to finish up the last two rows of the current repeat tonight.
And this photo explains why 2 rows before bed tonight will be an accomplishment.
Icy Fields is a stole, and it is knit flat, although in the photo it kind of looks like it’s in the round. It is constructed so that you cast on length-wise, knit one half of the main body, pick up the stitches from the provisional cast on, and knit the second half of the main body. Then you pick up the stitches around the outside and knit outwards, finishing either with a crochet cast off, or a knit on border, I haven’t decided which. It’s progressing slowly but consistently, so long as I don’t force myself to work on it.
Something progressing much faster on the other hand, is Belle.
I finished both singles a few days ago, and started plying this morning, but I don’t have a picture of the plied yarn at the moment. Hopefully this will be done within the next few days, and then I can wash it plus a few other skeins I have lying around.
In other news, Climbing Trellis is up and on Ravelry. I’ll be posting about it, and putting a link up on the sidebar, within the next few days.
My modified 10kH is going amazingly well. I ended up working on it for 13 and a half hours this week, which is making me feel better about the weeks that I kind of slacked off right after school ended. But I will end this post here and go work on Icy Fields.
Holly
It’s Been Awhile
It may have been awhile since I last posted, but I’ve been a little busy. In the past few weeks I’ve…
graduated.
attempted to stay on track with my hour a day of paperwork. This hasn’t gone great, but I have charted and swatched a few things, began formatting the pattern for A Study in Grey, kept in touch with all my test knitters for the Arrowhead Stole, scheduled and re-scheduled a photo-shoot more than a few times, and am getting ready to launch Climbing Trellis in the next few days.
made a very, very, teeny, tiny dent in the copy paper box full of knitting to wash and block. The second photo is my entire living room floor covered in drying knitting.
the Putty Waves scarf off the needles. I’m still looking for a better name though.
added a bunch of repeats to Que Sera, knit out of a cotton recycled from an old sweater. It’s ready to split for the armholes but,
I’ve put Que Sera down to work on Icy Fields. Which has been on the needles for a ridiculous amount of time and has very recently gone through it’s 3rd or 4th re-design.
started spinning 4oz of some Yarn Love roving in the colorway Belle.
None of the projects shown in the last post are still on the needles. The project on the bottom turned into a scarf for Lara’s mother’s birthday. It is currently sitting in the pile to be blocked and then gifted. The other two projects were swatches that just weren’t going as planned. The green one got ripped, recently re-charted, and is waiting to be swatched again. The white was going to be Cables and Lace, but the yarn got turned into a blanket/rug instead. I think I’m going to get another fleece or two, and keep adding to the current rug until it’s blanket size. Since it’s a log cabin blanket adding to it over time won’t be that hard.
and most importantly spent some quality time with an adorable kitty.
Holly
Patterning Update Today, Crafting Update Tomorrow
Hopefully I’ll get better at updating once the semester is done and there is less crazy. But for now at least sporadic updates (hopefully at least twice a week) is all I can manage.
Not a huge amount has happened on the design front because I had an 8 page paper due Friday, which in reality was an 11 page paper, because I found I kept having more to say, and today I finished the first of 5 large final projects.
Wednesday I charted out the pattern for the Dancing Girls Scarf, and wrote up the pattern. It turns out I had written out the pattern before, but in a very unclear and messy sort of way. So I found it easier just to rewrite the pattern. Thursday I charted, then swatched, then ripped for a dragonfly inspired tam that I have floating around in my brain. Friday my brain was so fried after the paper that I just wrote out a few descriptions for some projects. Saturday was spent doing a bunch of little things, like knitting a stockinette gauge swatch to fill in the gauge for one pattern, adding a few things to one or two charts, and I started writing up the pattern for a fair isle bag that I knit my mother for Christmas last year. Sunday I finished up writing and charting the fair isle bag and started the swatch for Cables and Lace. The swatch is stalled, because I’m not sure if the yarn really wants to be a shawl. Monday I spent about 15 minutes on a swatch for a new shawl (not cables and lace). While, today was spent writing up and charting the pattern for a colorwork collar/cowl/thing.
Tomorrow will hopefully be sunny so I can take pictures and write an update on the art/crafting side of things.
Holly
