More Swatching ?????

Casablanca is supposed to start sometime in June, so of course the swatch is up and ready to knit. Overall there will be 700 beads on this piece, and I can't decide which ones I want to use ! Typically for lace I would be leaning towards a small bead (8/0 for those that care) but I think that as the theme is Casablanca I want to go with something a little larger. On my swatch I was trying out colors, none of them said Morocco to me, so it is back to the drawing board.......

The purple swatch below is the for real swatch for Mystic Meadows. Although I loved how the dye job looked on the yarn, for lace it was just too busy. Only a few more days until that one starts, so I must get back to work on the Christmas Sweater.

~M

Swatches, Starts and Choices Oh My.

I shouldn't but I did

It is not like I don't already have a project to be working on between the knit along clues. This dratted sweater is not going to knit itself while I am not looking, and although I am really, really, REALLY tired of knitting in red I really should get it finished.

The swatch for Mystic Meadows was published today, I don't have the right yarn, so I improvised. It is designed for a fingering weight yarn, but I used lace weight and upped the needle size to get the gauge. Then I didn't like the yellows and greens of Gossamer Carribean, so I overdyed it with a purple food color.

It does remind me of wild flowers though :)

~M

Talking on Tuesday

Not a lot to report on the knitting front, I am a little further up the back of the Christmas sweater.....feels like I have been knitting this one forever as it is the third try !

I did do the swatch for the Summer Lace Sampler by Bad Cat Designs. Yep, that is it up there. :) My sampler should end up being about 17 inches wide and just under 69 inches long if the swatch is correct....but we all know that swatches lie.

Yard work is slowly getting done. I did disturb a herd of elephants that was hiding in the long grass before I mowed. They were too far away by the time I got my camera to get pics of them.

~M

Sunday Slow Bee

Another clue bites the dust. Next one comes out on Friday...until then there is a Christmas sweater to be knitted and Bad Cat Designs Summer Lace Sampler swatch to do.

~M

Friday ?

It is Friday and there are no finished objects to show you.

Instead of knitting I went out to lunch, even ate some of it :)

Things around the house are taking longer and are turning into more complicated undertakings than they should, but I am half way through the second clue for Slow Bee....man is this one pretty.

~M

Slow Bee Me Wednesday

This is the first clue for the Slow Bee Mystery, worked in a 2/28 silk from ColourMart. There will be just under 3000 beads in this when it is done (from the materials list) and I am finding the beads are slowing down my usual frantic knitting pace. I cast on late Monday and finished up around lunch time today.

~M
yes, I ate the pasta salad :)