We need Photography lessons

I said I would and I did.

I said I would knit it again, this time in a solid color and I did. Misti Alpaca Lace yarn and size 1 - yes you read that right, size 1 needles. The other variations of this shawl had been a little on the big side for me so I went for the tightest knit that I could tolerate and then, well to put it in plain terms....blocked the hell out of it ! (in case you were wondering the color name is denim.) She came off the blocking board just before 8pm and we took pictures immediately. I am sure that once we see some daylight tomorrow I will be able to get better ones...note to self, wear a white shirt so the lace shows up ! (sorry for the fuzzy, my dear daughter took the pic for me and couldn't hold my camera still to save her life ! )

Other than that I have been working at designing and knitting "The not-so Perfect" baby blanket. I need to move some yarn out of my stash and I didn't have enough of a single color of baby-yarn to knit a decent size blanket, so it has different panels.....the not so perfect ?....I can't count. The first section is about ten rows longer than the other sections and I am too lazy to frog it and start again, juggling five balls of yarn and size 9 needles after a nice comforting lace project is bad enough without frogging an entire knitting session.

Not much to say on the food front...ate crepes today, does that count as food ???

Later

~M

It's about time

It is about time I took some pictures of Mystic Waters (the large size.)

I loved knitting this pattern, it is much more elegant than my yarn shows. Would I knit it again ? YES but I would definitely not use the same wool. It feels wonderful, but the color changes are too busy for the pattern to show up unless you examine it.

My model thinks it is very cozy and wanted to keep it. He was very disappointed to hear that boys do not usually wear lace shawls !

~M

Finally some finished projects on the knit-along front. The top is Mystic Waters (the small version) knitted in a fingering weight yarn that was in my stash sans labels. It has a recipient in mind and did from the second or third row.

The second is SotS in a cream baby yarn that was also in my stash - gotta love stash busting. It is homeless right now.

I still have the large version of Mystic Waters in blue tones to complete. I am two sections behind in that one as I have turned to finishing my gift projects.

Nothing fancy there - plain mittens for the boys and a cardigan/jacket for Allison. Phillip's mittens are complete, Christopher's are on the needles now and all I need for the jacket is to finish the second sleeve and knit a belt. Mindless tv knitting there.

~Mary