Wip Wednesday

 Are you playing with us in the Around the World Stitch Along? (That's a Ravelry link, only click if you know you don't have issues with the new site or have already clicked to switch back to Classic)...here's a non-Ravelry link for you...IG

I have been making (very slow) progress on a pair of socks for it...

Rainbow Wanderer (which I keep wanting to type as Rainbow Warrior) by Rachel Ferguson (currently only available on Ravelry, but, if you want to get a copy of the pattern let me know and I can contact the designer for you to work something out!)

 

I'm quite a bit further than that now, nearly to the toe of the second sock!

It's ever so much fun to see the rainbow arc across the top of the foot of the sock!

Lot's of other "behind the scenes" knitting, writing, charting and editing going on.  We got a quickie (at home) photo shoot in this past weekend for three upcoming designs and I have two others that are really close to needing testers, so maybe life is settling into the new "normal" that will actually have me finishing things I started months ago!

I hope you are safe and healthy!

Until next time....

Knit Happy!

~M

Hushed

 

Shawls to come....

Gently

 

Lasciel

If you are a fan of The Dresden Files books, you already know the name, but for those who aren't...

Lasciel, also known as the Seducer, the Webweaver, and the Temptress, is a Fallen Angel and a member of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. 

 

This top down triangle shawl, like Lasciel, tempts the knitter into trying new things!  Beads that cover multiple stitches, nupps, nupps worked with beads to start them, or end them! 

I used a light fingering yarn from Colourmart for my sample in a simple white with two sizes of blue beads.

67.5 inch wingspan with a 35.5 inch drop (168 cm by 88.75 cm)means it is generously sized enough to wrap gently around you, or, pin it in your hair and have a marvelous veil!

Lasciel starts with a provisional cast on and garter tab, specialty stitches are explained after the finishing instructions and all instructions are provided in both chart and fully written forms.

 
While gauge is not critical to the piece, individual choices in yarn, needle and gauge will affect final yarn requirements and sizing.

Available now on Ravelry and Payhip, soon on Love Crafts!

Something Different

I don't know if I am the only knitting designer that does this, but sometimes I'll write up and knit a pattern, get it through all the steps except the final two....beta/preview knitting and publishing.

Sometimes it is because I have too many things at the same stage of development at one time, and if there is a third party design in the mix, it gets priority for beta/preview knitting as the publication date is fixed.

Others...it was the wrong time for getting beta/preview knitters, so the pattern went into my "unpublished" folder on my computer where it started collecting virtual dust.

I was looking at that folder over the weekend and decided to do something a little different with those designs, at least as a trial run.

For newsletter subscribers, for 24 hours only, I will offer a code to get the pattern free from Ravelry...if you can't use Ravelry because of accessibility issues, just reply to the newsletter and I will email you a copy of the pattern...so if you are reading along here, but not a newsletter subscriber and would like a free pattern, go ahead and sign up...just over there in the sidebar.  I promise I don't send lots of newsletters and you can unsubscribe at any time!

This time around...the pattern will be Lasciel...

I've been missing that purple hair for several years now!

Until later this week...

Knit Happy!

~M

When Sunday is WiP Wednesday and FO Friday!

Is time moving in strange, wibbly, wobbly, timey, whyme, type ways for you as it is for me?  I, usually, know what day of the week it is, but these days knowing where in the month; or even year; we are, is somehow beyond me!  (How is it the middle of August already?)

But, even knowing what day of the week it is, things seem to be taking a lot more effort just to complete than they ever have before.

The Around the World Stitchalong had its kickoff yesterday. Ten other designers and I are hosting it on Ravelry here and on IG here.

 

My first project for the "along" is going to be a pair of socks by Rachel Ferguson...Rainbow Wanderer, (that's a Ravelry link as Rachel doesn't currently have another place to get her patterns) which I am going to trade for a project bag hand made by another participant! (I decided if the project was for someone else I stood a better chance of actually finishing something rather than flitting from task to task and project to project the way I have been lately.)

While this time around I wasn't officially on a team for GISH...a friend asked if I could proxy for one of the tasks in the summer camp scavenger hunt.  The item was "right up my alley" as it was to create a lace collar for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Included in the task was the suggestion to either include a picture of her face or a message to/about her.

When I shared the photo with some friends and on IG enough people requested that it be turned into a pattern that I am going to write it up!

But for now...back to knitting some socks!

Happy Knitting!

~M

Tranquility and Knitting

The bottom two are up for testing on Ravelry!

The cowl...You're Still Here

The shawl....Colors on Display