Sunday, April 29, 2007

Of shawls and strawberries

I stayed up until midnight last night finishing the increase section of the diamond:

I was off over one entire row, but it's barely noticeable, thank goodness.

My strawberry plant, which isn't dead yet! Hooray! I have the worst black thumb EVER, so we'll see how long this lasts.... (BTW, the butterfly was made by my sister Amy)

Friday, April 27, 2007

Knitting and knee pain

I have been working out the past two weeks, on the treadmill mostly, then on Tuesday I had the bright idea to do a yoga workout and messed up my knee. I have gotten quite a bit of the shawl done....only one more increase section to go before I start decreasing.

Not much else to report here, it's been pretty boring.

Friday, April 20, 2007

The Landlord

Monday, April 16, 2007

Progress photos

Here is the start of the Mediterranean Lace Shawl. This is at row 111:

It looks kind of blue in this photo (to me), but it's a pretty mint green. I started this about six times because I didn't like the look of the right side...it was very loopy compared to the left. I asked Melissa about it (the lace queen!) and she said she had the same problem, so I decided to experiment. I started twisting the second knit stitch on the right and trying to make the left side a little looser, and it looks much better!

And the Moon and Stars blanket:

I just noticed a few days ago that I did the yellow border wrong (sigh), so I need to frog it and redo from the blanket down. It isn't supposed to be a regular ribbed edge, it's a row of rib then a purl row (big difference!).

Saturday, April 07, 2007

We have photos!

I'm using a lot of exclamation points lately! But I was able to upload this photo on the new 'puter:


My Mom
Only a few more files to go and I'm done with the old 'puter.

Mail!!

I got my new computer AND the yarn I ordered yesterday! Photos to come soon, but I'll be getting everything transferred to the new 'puter this weekend.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Happy dance!!

I'm getting a new computer! The one I had decided on at CompUSA went on sale...instead of a $50 rebate, it now has a $200 rebate, and I couldn't pass it up! Yay! I should have it by the beginning of next week at the latest.

I really like working on the Sampler Stole, but I need to enlarge the graphs before I do anymore. Sigh, getting older sucks! And I ended up buying the Ice Green cobweb yarn, hopefully it'll be as pale as it is in the photo on their website.

It is snowing (!) here today. Lightly. I don't think any of it will stick, and I bet you I'll still see people out today in shorts!

For all you Rockford-area people, the Yarn Sellar is starting a chapter of Stitch-n-Bitch (I thought clubs weren't allowed to use that name anymore, but I could be wrong) and will meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month from 1-3pm. I may try to go to this, since it's on my day off. Dunno yet....

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Lace woes

I decided to scrap the Mediterranean Lace shawl in the Jaggerspun Zephyr yarn--way too heavy a yarn for that delicate pattern! I will order this yarn as opposed to this yarn because:
1) it will only cost me $50 instead of $120
2) it comes in cones instead of hanks (fewer ends to deal with!)
3) wpi are very very similar (30wpi versus 32wpi). The Zephyr is 22wpi.
4) color! I am leaning towards getting the pink.

I went through my lace books and earmarked patterns for my laceweight yarn stash. I will make the "Half-Square in Trinity Stitch" from Victorian Lace Today (p 126) with my purple/green/white variegated; the "Sampler Shawl-1840 heirloom" from VLT (p 58) with the white Zephyr; and the "Frost Flowers and Leaves" from A Gathering of Lace (p 59) with the fawn laceweight. I'm going to start the sampler now and work on it until I can restart Mediterranean Lace.

It's been a lazy weekend here...errands yesterday, sitting around today. I was going to finish cleaning the downstairs today (read: pack up and get rid of junk that we haven't used since we moved in and vacuum up cobwebs), but I just. don't. feel. like. it. Plus Sir B was supposed to dig up the flowers in the front yard that WON'T DIE and are interfering with our new landscaping, but he has a flare-up of gout and has been hobbling around since Friday, so that's being put off until sometime during the week. I'm surprised ANYTHING gets done around here, we are both such procrastinators!!