Eirwen
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Breathe. Sit. Knit.
This shawl is simple and meditative, but not boring. The lace pattern is small, easy to memorize, and easy to knit. The stockinette rows make great resting rounds and sections. The colorwork is all just stripes, so you’re only ever working with one yarn at a time.
But together, the lace, the stockinette, the striping, combine to create a spectacular shawl.
Yarn: MC: 950 yards (868 meters), lace weight
Shown in: Madelinetosh, “Tosh Lace”; 1 skein, 950 yards (868 meters)/skein, colorway ‘citrus’
CC: 650 yards (594 meters), lace weight
Shown in: Sweet Georgia, “Merino Silk Lace”; 1 skein, 765 yards (700 meters)/skein, colorway ‘dutch’
Needles: US size 3 (3.25 mm) 1 set DPNs, 32 inch (80 cm) circular, 40 inch (100 cm) circular, or size needed to obtain gauge
Notions: 1 stitch markers, tapestry needle
Gauge: 30 sts/4 inches; 32 rows/4 inches (30 sts/10 cm; 32 rows/10 cm) in washed and blocked stockinette
Blocked Dimensions: 48 inches (122 cm) diameter, blocked
Skills Used: casting on, binding off, knitting, working in the round on circulars and DPNs, working with two colors of yarn in stripes, k2tog, ssk, sk2p, yo, weaving in ends, blocking lace
FO: Eirwen
Pattern: My own (almost ready for publication)
Yarn: 1 skein Tosh lace, colorway: citrus (the orange); 1 skein Sweet Georgia merino/silk lace, colorway; dutch (the golden yellow)
Yardage: 1 skein Tosh lace (950 yards; 868 meters); 1 skein Sweet Georgia merino silk lace (765 yards; 700 meters). I had a fair amount of the Sweet Georgia left over and a small ball of the Tosh lace.
Needles: 3.25 mm (US 3s) 40″ circulars
Blog Silence… Must Mean Something is Going On
The funny thing about blogging, at least for me, is that I blog when I have time. I don’t have a schedule, I tried that and failed miserably. Then, whenever there’s a blog silence, I think to myself every week or so that “I should really put something up” but then the silence continues because somethingelse comes up. Because as it turns out I blog when I have time. I’m writing this on the train, on my way into work. (Now, it’s a few days later now, and I’m just getting back to add photos and edit.)
But the catch is I almost never seem to have free time, but I don’t have free time because I’m busy (at least part of the time) doing the things that I would be blogging about. Of course a lot of the time is spent doing boring non-blog related or blog worthy stuff (laundry anyone?). But some of that time is spent knitting and designing, and making or doing cool stuff, like decorating my new apartment. (Yep, I moved. Again. For the third time this summer.)
So if I were blogging in my limited amounts of free time this last month, there would have been nothing to blog about. I’m mean my last post was just a picture of a lot of boxes and a “sorry, can’t blog, I’ll do it later.” But now it’s been a month and a half and I haven’t blogged, and I feel terrible. So I’m sorry my poor neglected little blog.
But on the plus side I did get a whole heck of a lot done.
I moved. Again.
I finished a bunch of stuff.
From bottom to top. Kora. Asymmetrical Bluebells. Eirwen. Ghosts & Mirrors. and Very Berry. I’ve written about all of these before mostly under different names, or under no name. Except for Very Berry (which seriously needs a new name), it was done so quickly that I never got a chance to blog about it.
I started some stuff.
Another sample for my Arrowhead Stole in Tosh Lace colorway lapis.
A new hat that I’m working on, probably with some sort of cable design.
And I (sort of) made a smidge of progress on one WIP.
Only a few more rows to go on the shawl with a thousand beads.
I bought also some stuff.
Melissa Leapman’s book Continuous Cables, which I mostly got for the stitch dictionary at the end of the book. I think I’m going to play with some of these cables for the hat that I’m working on.
A skein of Manos Lace in “L2435 Aivina Aqua.” For another geometric lace stole with a garter stitch border along the same lines as Ghosts & Mirrors.
Two skeins of Wool Candy in “Gothic.” For an asymmetrical (not so) little something of a shawl.
And a skein of Scrumptious Lace in “Cherry.” Just because it was pretty.
So, so long and until next time my little corner of the Internet. I’ll try to get back to you soon. And I’ll try for a bit more balance between creating and writing about it.
