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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Something easy

I need something easy to knit.  All my current projects are too complicated to take with me to knitting groups. Well, except for one project, but I'm not loving that project right now.  I thought that the Rose Lace Stole would be my easy project, but I'm at the lace edging and I doubt I could knit that while talking.  Though, would it be that crazy if I thought that I could knit the lace while talking??  The lace pattern is "simple" enough and easy enough to tell what stitches should be where.  I could probably catch a mistake quickly and fix it...hmmmm.  The border is going quickly, but anything seems quicker after having to knit 124 rows!


I am really loving the yellow for this stole.  You can't really see it in the picture and it doesn't help that I am not a photographer, but the subtle variations in the yellow are just stunning.  Sometimes I just sit and look at it in awe.  Knitting this just makes me happy.  Now, I have no idea when/how I will wear this, but that's a problem for another day.


My mail stalking finally paid off yesterday.  I received my Vogue Knitting Stitchionary 5 - Lace Knitting and my skein of Crafty Dinger Sock from The Asylum for Wayward Yarn!  I'd looked though this book at a Barnes & Noble and found THE stitch pattern that I'd been trying to come up with for my next shawl.  Well, I didn't pick it up then, but I told Mr. SpiderKate about it.  Being the awesome husband that he is, he went on amazon a couple of days later and ordered it for me!  I looked through the book again yesterday and am really happy that I now own it.  I know it isn't going to be as awesome as the Barber Walker books, but for the time being this book has a lot of good stitch patterns in it and I can see it being useful for years to come.  I've already seen a couple (stitch patterns) that I'm interested in and looking forward to putting together.  The funny thing is that while waiting for thing book to come, I was able to figure out my stitch pattern - as I posted about the other day.  I haven't compared them directly yet, but I think they are very similar (the book and what I came up).


And the yarn.  I. Love. the. Yarn!  Love love love.  I've never been much of a purple knitter - at least that is what I tell myself, a quick look at past projects might say otherwise.  Purple just isn't typically one of those colors that I gravitate towards in the yarn shops.  I'm mostly enthralled with the blues, greens, and deep reds.  But, this purple and love of purple has been sneaking up and getting a strong hold on me and I'm not the only one.  I'm seeing it more when I'm watching morning shows - like the today show - and other programs.  I might even have heard or read somewhere someone saying "purple is the new black."  Except, they might have been saying it more like "purple is the new black?"  Either way, I've fallen in love with purple for the time being.  This yarn will be used for the Crafty Diversions KAL that I'm going to be participating in.  I've already wound the skein up and can't wait to start working with it.

Oh!  Before I forget.  It was brought to my attention that there is an error in Chart A - Set up for my Chincoteague Shawl.  Essentially I haven't shown the garter stitch border correctly, so I will be fixing that chart and sending out an update.  I don't think I know of anyone knitting it strictly from the charts and hopefully the mistake is minor enough that the knitter should be able to see that the first and last three stitches of the row should always be knit (on both the WS and RS) in order to get the garter stitch edge.  The written directions for Chart A - Set up are correct.

2 comments:

  1. Good thing you know someone with purple as their favorite color!!

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  2. I thought you might be interested in this shawl since it is going to be purple!

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