Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Fatal Error (RIP first attempt at WRS)

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My first go at the WRS center has failed. What is referred to in health care as a "fatal error" has occurred! I had to pick back o...
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Monday, July 17, 2006

The Wedding Ring Shawl (Or why I lost what was left of my mind in 2006)

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One of the women at work who I taught to knit took a look at my test swatch for the Wedding Ring Shawl and asked in an absolutely horrified ...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Cashmere is here! (And why I will be using the Shetland)

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I received some very nice cones of Cashmere singles in the mail today from ColorMartUK in the United Kingdom. Four cones of what they label ...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

So waddaya think? (62 row swatch of The Wedding Ring Shawl)

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So here we have it ladies and gentlemen. This is the 62 rows that are the center of the Wedding Ring Shawl ( one view plain, one with a dime...
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Monday, July 10, 2006

A good yarn is hard to find! (Not all cobweb weight Shetlands are made equal)

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I previously posted that I bought additional skeins of cobweb weight Shetland yarn from Lacis, as a back-up. Better safe than sorry and all ...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

The Wedding Ring Shawl or Where is Yoda when you really need him? (There is no "rip" in lacework)

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Every choice in tools has a "downside" and an "upside". Straight metal needles have no join to ease stitches over. A joi...
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When you are older, you need a lot of crutch's (Dodges to keep from messing up!)

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Although Jason was nice enough to say that I appear to be knitting fast, in reality I'm not fast, just sedentary. I like to sit and knit...
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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...