Mine has been mostly quiet, with a little knitting time and some help with yard work. TDQ made me a bracelet (that's her thing these days, bracelets and necklaces, then running around selling them to her friends.) It was a rough week so I needed a little peace and quiet in my life before Monday rolls around and rough week the second begins!
As I have mentioned before, Andrea, of Bad Cat Designs has a book that is soon to be at a bookseller near you (or available through Amazon as a dead tree version and Interweave as an e-book.) As one of her faithful test knitters, I of course got a sneak peek at the designs when they were still in the charting and initial knitting phases.
It takes a long time to get from there to publication date, and I did not keep very good track at all of what yarns I used, which beads and needles...but I did manage to dig out some of my finished object photo's that I shared with Andrea when I was done with the knitting portion of each project.
Just to be different I am going to move right to the ending chapters of the book. Where Andrea discusses and demonstrates how to take a vintage doily and turn it into something new!
We start with an 8 wedge doily.
Just like this one!
Add some particularly luscious yarn (Lara's Creations Majestic in Your Highness)
Slightly larger needles, with a slightly adjusted chart gets you....
A pretty Purple Shawl!
Of course, being a purple shawl it was immediately stolen by that sassy little model!
There are 22 patterns in the book, various shapes and sizes of shawls, doilies and hats. Pretty much something for every knitter, from beginners (The Purple Shawl is a good one for that) to the expert who wants a bit of a challenge.
~M
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