Taking Stock
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way.
What’s in progress?
Somethings you’ve seen before:
but it hasn’t come out of it’s project bag since you last saw it.
Some totally new things:
-a simple elegant circular purple shawl
-a coat, which I kind of done because it’s been damn cold
–swatches for the next Shawl Geometry book about mutant shawls, at least the swatches aren’t green this time 😉
-a non-sucky about page, which is harder than it sounds
-the pattern for this shawl went to my technical editor Monday.
What’s coming up next?
-a new blog series about binding off, specifically for shawls
-writing the pattern for this shawl
-writing the mutant shawl geometry book
Announce! Announce!
I sent out an exclusive free pattern to the list just before the new year, if you aren’t on the list, and want the pattern, you can sign up here.
This was part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog.
lace cables and garter stitch
I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way.
I’ve been working on a couple projects the past couple weeks. None of which have been the posy and celedon shawl. But all of which have seen lots and lots of progress. I haven’t had a lot of time to knit, but when I was able to carve out a chunk of time, I focused primarily on a shawl you haven’t seen yet.
It’s a circular shawl with a lace cable pattern, knit out of the Verdant Gryphon’s Eidos in “fenris” and “blinding polyphemus.” Once it’s blocked you’ll be able to see the patterning much, much better. That’s the magic of blocking. And when I wasn’t working on that,
I was working on a fabulously simple garter stitch shawl in Tosh Merino Light. It’s soft and squishy and delightfully mindless (but not boring.)
If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog.
Lapidarius
Lapidarius is now available for purchase as a download, for $8.00 either on Ravelry, or directly through the blog …buy now
Lapidary– a person who works with precious stone. Also, of/relating to gemstones. From the Latin lapidarius. This design came out of playing with diamonds. Playing with the way they fit together, the way you can build larger diamonds out of smaller diamonds, and the way you can carve smaller diamonds out of larger ones.
Lapidarius is a rectangular shawl with a cast on edge at one end, a bind off edge at the other and 12 repeats of the 48 row repeat in between.
Yarn: 750 yards (686 meters), lace weight
Shown in: The Verdant Gryphon, “Mithril”; 750 yards (686 meters)/skein, 1skein of “Interior”
Needles: US size 2.5 (3.00 mm) 32 inch (80 cm) circular or size needed to obtain gauge
Notions: tapestry needle, US 3 (3.25 mm) or US 4 (3.5 mm) needles for cast on edges (optional)
Gauge: 28 sts/4 inches; 38 rows/4 inches (20 sts/10 cm; 30 rows/10 cm) in washed and blocked stockinette
Blocked Dimensions: 10 inches (25.5 cm) wide x 60 inches (152.5 cm) long, blocked
Skills Used: cable cast on, knitting and purling, k2tog, ssk, k3tog, k3togtbl, yo, weaving in ends, blocking lace
