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3
Feb
2016

knitting by a pool in January

Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.

knitting by a pool

Stonemountain buttons

Avenue Yarns

KNITTTTTTTTTIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!
(by a pool).
(in January).
(and then picnicking).
(outside).
(without freezing).
(California has it’s perks).
(it’s also got some great yarn & fabric shops).
(which is not a perk – it’s a necessity).

Of course, there are also botanical gardens
& parks
& walks
& museums
& charming shops
& stunning street art
& cute restaurants
& meeting up with amazing people.
But I’m suffering from photo overload again this week.

So in the mean time, knitting.

27
Jan
2016

photos, stories, sharing, and swatching

Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.

Bay Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge at sunset

Britex fabrics

cattown Oakland

Paxton Gate

image

palm tree sunset

I’m pretty sure I spent more time sorting through photos for this post and trying to whittle my selection down under half a dozen – then I’ll spend writing it.

I’ve taken hundreds of photos in the past week and a half. Some of them are ending up here, some on Instagram – but mostly they’re organizing themselves into stories & collections.

But the problem is, they’re not organizing themselves into chronological stories – the kind of stories that can be told while they’re happening. The photos I’m finding myself taking are organizing themselves into pattern-like stories – patterns in street art, and plant forms, in architecture and color, and funny street signs.

These are the kind of stories that can only be told after the fact – when you can get perspective, and see all the dots, before connecting them.

All that said, I do want to start using little stolen bits of time (waiting for coffee, or for food to come) to start sorting and sharing – before I get to the end of this trip, and find myself faces with an overwhelming number of thoughts and photos.

(Oh! And I also started swatching for a new sweater – looking forward and starting to plan for two 18 hour long train rides, from Oakland to Portland and back).

13
Apr
2015

“Ordo” – a new brain bending shawl pattern

Ordo - a new shawl pattern

knit lace shawl

brain bending knitted shawls

Order and chaos.
Order created from chaos.
Chaos facilitating order.
One begins – the other follows.
The two swirling around each other.

Two strands of yarn,
twisting around each other,
creating a whole new color.

Intertwining paths,
built with negative space,
splitting, intersecting, looping back around.

‘Ordo’ is Latin for “order, rank, or class.”

Order begets chaos. Chaos begets order.

Add a stitch. Create a hole. Make some lace.

Ordo - a knitted shawl

The Important Pattern Details:

Yarn: 1,750 yards of lace weight yarn; 2 skeins of Toil & Trouble’s “Filament (Merino Silk Lace)” colorways: ‘Smoke Signals’ & ‘Apollo’

Two strands of lace weight yarn (one strand of each colorway) are held together throughout the shawl. This gives you a marled fabric, and at the same time, lets you use a not so itty bitty needle.

Needles: US 5s (3.75mm) 40″ circular needles; larger needles for binding off

Notions: stitch markers (8); tapestry/yarn needle

Gauge: 20 stitches & 34 rounds = 4 inches (10 cm) with smaller needle, in washed and blocked stockinette stitch

Dimensions: 40 inches (101.5 cm) blocked diameter

Skills Used: reading charts; casting on; knitting; k2tog, ssk, yo, k3tog, k3togtbl; binding off; weaving in ends; blocking lace

Please note that this lace stitch pattern is charted only.

lace shawl

Queue and purchase the pattern here on Ravelry.

knitted lace shawl pattern

Here’s the Ravelry link.

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