Friday, July 07, 2006

Row 22 of test swatch of The Wedding Ring Shawl

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Opthamologist swears that I can do this folks! I had my yearly eye exam and asked if there was some reliable magnifying device I could attac...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Heck of an old Yarn Stash (Can you carbon date your yarn like me?)

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I went to Lacis today to pick up additional Shetland Cobweb weight yarn. This is not to say that I have made a choice as to what yarn I will...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Tennis Elbow (what you get from winding over 6 thousand yards of silk yarn)

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Well. I finally got the Silk wound off. Whew! As I thought, not all in one ball. It kept getting snagged or snapped. This made it very slow ...

Size Matters (choosing the correct needles)

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On this, the glorious 4th of July, I am making lace swatches. I can only do the swatches from what I have on hand because I have PROMISED my...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

The Curse of the Peacock Shawl (get back on the knitting horse darn it )

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This is the re-do of my Peacock Shawl or as my computer tech family might say, version 7.0 of the shawl as I've had to start over that m...

Laceweight Cashmere (Do I really have to send away to England for every darned thing?)

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If you Google Cashmere laceweight yarn do you know what you get? You get the American sites you already know of, hoping you will see a yarn ...
Saturday, July 01, 2006

Miss Runner-ups (Or the yarn's that would be lace!)

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That's right. "Wedding Ring" shawl "wanna-be's! They never made the cut because they are too bulky for that type of a...
Friday, June 30, 2006

Laceweight Yarn Stash (Can you really have too much to choose from?)

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Since I have ordered a copy of the "Wedding Ring Shawl" from Heirloom Knitting, I have been looking at my "stash" of lac...
Monday, June 26, 2006

Blast from the Past (Shawl from long ago)

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This is a shawl I made for my friend, Louise many many years ago. She let me have it just to post it since none of the other shawls I've...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

What to Knit when you need something easier! (Brain Fry)

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Whenever I need to knit something that won't fry my brain, I rotate my lace knitting to things much more simple yet not a waste of time....

Lace (Life-long obsession)

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I am creating this site for my lace projects. Something that I can post my progress on. My other site is for other crafts in general, but La...