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Ξ February 5th, 2009 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
arbor day
it looks like a bright pile of leaves from a sugar maple, doesn’t it? but it’s not?it’s the faroese sibling to the autumn arbor stole. i’m once again knitting in whisper merino lace from the woolen rabbit and i couldn’t be happier?the yarn is just lovely to work with.
the phrase autumn mantle keeps coming to mind when i think about this project. the sweeping shape of the faroese shawl reminds me of tree canopy, i guess, so i’m working with that image in mind for the final silhouette?the hem will look like a fringe of big, fat, overlapping leaves that leads upward through a tangle of more open lace to the shoulders.
i’m working this shawl completely different than the previous faroese shawls i designed. while i like working down from shoulder to hem, increasing steadily as i go, i wasn’t going to have the beautiful edge we all liked so much in the autum arbor stole. it would still have been scalloped but not the same way.
i’m designing this one on the needles to a certain extent, which has not been my usual way of going about it. and the shaping is all different, too. the lack of planning has potential to make me nervous, but so far, the design feels like it’s falling into place as long as i stay one step ahead of myself. wish me luck.
starting at the hem means that the rows are very long in the beginning, but funny enough, they are moving along more quickly than i expected?i love this stitch pattern cialis kaufen and the length of each row has a zen quality about it which i’m enjoying (no need to check the chart very often, ha). still, i’m already 40 rows in? almost at the next transition, where i need to decrease down and continue with a smaller version of the same motif. the nice part is that it will get smaller as i go.
i love the new england red colorway?just what i need in february. when i look outside everything is thickly coated in white; we can’t even see the pavement or the sidewalks. the orange really brings a bit of sunshine into the place.
now, before i talk about any other knitting, i want to share some good news from deb kessler at fearless fibers, who is now taking signups for her whisper of spring lace club.
this is one of deb’s wonderful “short” clubs?three shipments of three lovely yarns and patterns for lace projects. what’s terribly exciting about this one is that deb is re-launching her incredibly lovely cashmere laceweight yarn for one of the club installments. you might remember that i’ve knit with this yarn a couple of times, and that my friend susie knit her casino shawl from it.
it was unavailable in deb’s shop for a while but she’s decided to start dyeing it again and the first recipients will be club members.
i’ll be doing a scarf design to go with it in this beautiful lavendar/gray colorway for the may installment. now if that doesn’t look like a gentle may breeze, i dunno what does?i can practically feel the fresh air washing over me.
in other knitting news, i also have quick little secret project on the needles that i’ll be able to reveal in a week or so which is providing a break from those long shawl rows once in a while (not that i need one very often).
what i need is to get a sock on the needles . . . can you believe i don’t have one to work on right now? i certainly have plenty of yarn to start one, hehe. the trouble is deciding which.
i also have another little neckwarmer i’ve been pondering?i did some swatches a couple of months back that i didn’t show you, one of which was this pattern
it reminds me of ice crystals and frost flowers that form on the windowpaness, so i thought it would be a great little quick-and-pretty project for february (and sure enough, it has been all-ice, all the time around here for the last week).
anyhow, i of course fell in love
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