August 18, 2009
Rosemary
At last, it is finished! To recap: this is the Rosemary Shawl, designed by Gladys Amedro. The yarn was spun on a spindle from 8 oz of Enchanted Knoll Farm batts in Cleopatra (approximately 1800 yards of laceweight). I was worried that I might run out of yarn, but hooray! I had a bit left over.
The sparkly yarn is hard to capture, but I like the way the color variations in the batts play out in the square shawl. Subtle stripes please me.
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July 14, 2009
Lacy things and tasty things
It's been a while, hasn't it? There was a kitchen renovation in there that sucked up a lot of psychic energy, but I think things are mostly back to normal now.
(More photos here for the curious.)
Anyway, back to my current lace knitting project--a handspun Rosemary shawl, as shown above. One really nice thing about Gladys Amedro's shawls is that they're worked from the outside in, meaning the rows get shorter and faster the further you go.
The sparkle level is more accurate in this photo. The yarn is spun from Cleopatra batts from Enchanted Knoll Farm--8 ounces on my little Ethan Jakob spindle. The shawl has eaten up a lot of yarn so far, though, so I'm eying the remaining skeins a bit nervously....
In addition to the ubiquitous lace knitting, projects have been multiplying around here at a somewhat alarming rate.
There is spinning, of course. This is tussah silk acquired at Connecticut Sheep and Wool last year. (There are many other spinning projects in progress, but they should probably wait for a post of their own.)
Some of you may notice from this photo that I've dug out the Dear Jane blocks again. (!) But I'm considering a smaller quilt at this point, with some different colors. We'll see how that goes. :)
A new kitchen means a revived interest in making tasty foods. We made butter this weekend with this as guidance, but using a food processor instead of a stand mixer. Easy and yum. We subsequently used the butter in French toast, rhubarb cobbler, and raspberry cream cheese muffins.
(Tatting has even made a reappearance, but I've no photos to back that up yet.)
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