March 02, 2008
South Seas Stole
Something finished, finally: the South Seas Stole by Laura Patterson. Knit with Heirloom Knitting merino lace yarn on 2.75mm needles. Embellished with size 8/0 silver-lined glass beads from the local bead store.
Even the knitted-on edging was enjoyable with this--I think beads add greatly to the fun. :)
Since I used a finer-than-laceweight yarn, the stole is much shorter than specified in the pattern--about 60 inches rather than 72. I could have added more pattern repeats in any of the lace sections, but I'm just too lazy, I guess.
Now, back to Princess knitting....
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January 22, 2008
Feathery
Thanks to the three-day weekend bonus knitting time, I completed the Princess border charts. Now for six rows of plain knitting (ew) and the insertion before figuring out the best way to hold all those live stitches while knitting the center.
The South Seas stole is shaping up to be a lot of fun. The beads are nice and shiny, which pleases both me and the little magpie who lives inside me.
This freewheeling knitting pace will surely slow a bit since my spring semester classes start tonight. I've been in denial.
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January 14, 2008
The others
Princess knitting continues smoothly--I passed border row 177 last night, so I think my projections for finishing the border this month will prove accurate. All that knitting and it's still a bit of fluff that can fit with plenty of breathing room in a gallon-size ziploc bag (embarrassingly, my default knitting project carrier).
Much as I love the Princess, however, I am still distractable by new and shiny things.
For example, I just started the South Seas Stole--firstly, because it's pretty, and secondly because it will give me the opportunity to play with lots of pretty blue silver-lined 8/0 beads. (Yarn is Merino Lace from Heirloom Knitting.)
While not exactly shiny, Filatura di Crosa Superior is ridiculously soft. I found it in a yarn store while visiting my mom over the holidays and remembered the tantalizing review published at Knitter's Review last May. It's now well on its way to becoming a scarf with an unwieldy name from Victorian Lace Today.
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