I’ve been wading my way through to-do list after to-do list, and I’m not sure when it’s going to end, so this is just a quick check in.

First off, there’s been a pattern release, (actually two, but I already posted about Gothic Spires).

Zodiac le Plume was published as part of the Sanguine Gryphon’s Spring 2011 line.
Inspired by the curves and twists that characterize the Art Nouveau movement, Zodiac le Plume is a crescent shaped shawl worked all in one piece from neck to hem.
The pattern is both written and charted, and can be purchased for download through the Sanguine Gryphon.
Image copyright The Sanguine Gryphon.

Now, what’s on my needles?
(that isn’t a secret….)

I posted about this on twitter a while ago while I spent an evening fighting with the chart, and ripping, reknitting, ripping, reknitting, ripping, reknitting. But once I got the chart straightened out, it’s been smooth sailing. The shawl out of Madelinetosh lace weight in the colorway flashdance (it’s brighter in real life), knit up on US size 2s (2.75mm).

I’ve resurrected the handspun memory blanket that I started about a year ago. I think I first mentioned it in this post. Since I don’t have any more of this particular handspun left I’m continuing with Cascade’s Eco wool and Eco+. The blue is Eco+ colorway 4009 (which doesn’t seem to be listed on their website), and I’ll pick up another skein or two in one of their creams/natural colorways, to make up the rest. This is just a garter stitch log cabin blanket knit on US size 10s (6mm) for when I can’t do anything more complicated than garter.

I started a pair of colorwork mittens in the brightest colors I could find, sometime around the middle of March when the grey was sucking out my soul. But these are sort of stalled while I waffle between ripping and rethinking the design, or just continuing and seeing what happens. These are out of Spud & Chole fine sock (80% superwash wool, 20% silk) colorways 7812, green and 7806, blue, knit on 3.00mm needles.

Recent Stash Enhancement

I realized I didn’t have any really large project bags a couple of weeks (months?) ago. So I played around and ended up with two usable bags.

And as it turns out, one skein of Madelinetosh really isn’t enough. So I got,

Tosh Lace (100% superwash merino, 950 yards, lace weight), colorway nebula

Tosh Lace (100% superwash merino, 950 yards, lace weight), colorway curiosity

and Tosh Sock (100% superwash merino, 395 yards, fingering weight), colorway terre verte

For this bag, I’m just going with “it followed me home.”

And last but certainly not least, the blog will be one year old, in about one week (the 13th). To be fair it has been a rather sporadic year of blogging, but it’s still been a year. So I’ll come up with some sort of contest to celebrate, (if you’ve got any ideas let me know), and announce it in a couple of days.

But, that’s all for now.