Several finished objects showed up Tues evening, and gotta say this great shawl of blues is pretty amazing. You really have to see it to catch all the subtle little pattern effects that Wasie has knitted.
A little cool tool called a Fleegle Beader was also in use last night which allows you to put a bead into your knitting as you go along rather than try and string beads onto your yarn before you knit. This is another wondrous shawl in the works.
Jennifer is letting Ripley aka: Vicki take her scarf for a test spin, we fear she might not let loose of it! This is a scarf she knitted with some of the lovely aplaca yarn the shop has using a simple pattern repeated over and over to give this detailed look of cables.
Again here is that wonderful scarf and you can see Margaret now might run away with it!
I am almost done with my Multnomeh
Shawl. A few more rows till I bind off, super easy, with just garter stitch and a few yarn overs. This should be a class project! It would be pretty in solid yarns as well as tweeds or various looks. This pattern on Ravelry for free download, and if you want a copy you can also email me!
I was gifted a few skeins of yarn over the weekend, and coming from a friend in MN came two balls of this NORO yarn called Silk Garden Sock Yarn. 328 yards to the skein and calls for a size 3 needle, but I could tell it was gong to be to fat for a size 3 and socks, so I tried a size 2 needle and the cuff would fit an elephant! Frogged the idea of knitting socks with it. Now what,,,Here they sit and not enough to do a project without one more skein of each color! WHAAAAAAAAA.....Know your yarn and don't take the word of the label, try a swatch and guage. This yarn is made in Japan and has many different types of yarns in the most magnificent colors, but this one for socks - that dog aint' gonna hunt.
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