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crazy days – packing and moving my mother from one apt to another in my small river town… almost done… not much knitting though…

did manage to order some gorgeous stitch markers from my favourite ETSY seller Beadmarkers

and the new Evelyn A. Clark book – Knitting Lace Triangles – but its backordered.

more at the weekend when things calm down.  maybe a little knitting tonight to alleviate all the packing and moving aches!!

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August blahs

remember that yarn I ordered from Elann? the baby lace merino – i LOVED the color and still do but the yarn – not so much.  yesterday i tried to wind the yarn – let me tell you it was NOT happening – i rewound that one ball about three times and then tried to cast on – even using size 1 lace needles – i HATED it.  I don’t think SUPERFINE yarn and I go together.

but the problem is i am CRAVING a red lace shawl – i have been drooling over the shawls in the SIMPLY STUNNING projects (Sharon Miller) and even thinking of ordering a few more from the website (although at the current exchange rate its ludicrous prices) and even to designing my own (i have her book).  but am really disappointed in finding a beautiful red - and actually like the ELANN red – so i went stash shopping and found a pretty deepish red from Mountain Colors BEARFOOT in Ruby River that I had bought earlier this year (one skein) for socks (never having done any wanted to make them in red of course). 

Love the color but its nylon, mohair and superwash – not sure how those combos will do for a lacey shawl… wonder if the superwash means not much give in the blocking process.  however LOVE the colors.

So then after a night of tossing in the lovely (that’s sarcasm folks) humidity of the august heat wave that is our weather this week (and suppose to break tonight please please)… i thought i might try to DOUBLE the Elann Baby Lace Merino.

So late this afternoon I took the one wound ball and an unwound ball – and had fun (yeah really) winding them together – i managed to get two balls of two strands each – I am not sure if I will like it after all but will try to swatch tonight.

but i am still surfing for a pretty fingering weight (i guess thats what works for me) or sock weight red.

any suggestions, please ?

as for CECE - we are stuck on SLEEVE ISLAND.  having restarted the first sleeve twice in order to figure out a good way to do the increases in the lace pattern – not as easy as it is written but finally figured out something that may work (after all how often will the underarm side be seen anyway – but you know, YOU know.)

one for the todo list

Qiviut Cardigan from The Natural Knitter by Barbara Albright. Cardigan designed by Linda Romens.

Photo from zeitgeist yarns blog

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Not much knitting this week as I am in New Mexico since Tuesday returning to NY on Monday .  Brought along my CECE – working on the first sleeve, body is waiting for them to be attached and then raglan up to the neck.

Also brought BEE FIELDS kit but haven’t even unpacked it – a very programmed visit.  Today is the first downtime day - we are hanging out at my sister’s house (in Albuquerque) – the rest of them at the pool, I have to wait as all I do is burn – so I am in the house listening to the LIVE feed from the Royal Albert Hall of the final opera in the four year RING cycle – GOTTERDAMMERUNG – its the last scene of Act Three – the end of the end so to speak.  A colleague of mine Christine Brewer is singing her FIRST Brunhilde and sounds FABULOUS – you go girl!

Had to restart the sleeve last night – to figure out how to deal with those sleeve increases and the lace pattern – I had done about four of the increases and didn’t like the wide stst band that had formed – of course then went back to the instructions and read that you should increase into the pattern – which is a NINE stitch pattern – so now I am on the second increase – which gives you FIVE stitches in the band and trying to figure out how to introduce the pattern at the next increase – i guess i’ll just try something and see how it works – ripping is my friend right?

ok, Brunhilde is getting ready for the IMMOLATION SCENE – so off i go.

more when I return to NY.

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Nigella Lawson’s new ONLINE store….. <sigh>

Waiting over (part one)

LOOKIE LOOKIE what came in the mail on Wednesday!

So  now I am a novice in the bee fields……

Waiting over (part deux)

 

Yes, more goodies - it was a GOOD mail day!

This is from Elann - with lovely Addi Lace Needles and yarn for the Mystery Stole 3 .



I got both the black and the red - I really want to knit the red - but may wait until Friday to see the design theme as apparently it will be revealed.

After all its not like I don't have anything to knit (see previous post)