The two tank tops above were knit from a pattern from in Vogue Knitting, Summer 1991. The one on the right I made in 1991 or 1992, I don’t remember which. The one on the left I finished knitting in early August.
The new one is made from O~Wool Balance, 50% cotton and 50% wool, all [...]
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There’s not only music, food and theater happening at LowLands. There’s also knitting! The University of Stirling is a stunning campus. Everywhere you look there are trees and rolling hills and mountains in the background. It kind of reminds me of the university I went to, back about a hundred years ago, Humboldt State Univ. in northern California. That campus is also full of hills and stairs, concrete [...] One of the main reasons for going to Knit Camp is to take classes and learn more about knitting, or fiber crafts in general. For this event we were asked to sign up 9 months in advance and then to sign up for classes 7 months in advance! There was of list of teachers and [...] Where have I been all this time? In Scotland of course! Last week I went to UK Knit Camp, held at the U. of Stirling campus. What a week it was! The event started last Monday, 9 August, but I didn’t get there until early Wednesday morning. I didn’t manage to get the whole week [...] No, the above photo is not spaghetti with some weird tomato. That’s yarn in a pot of dye. Results coming up later in the post. It’s been warm this week. We’ve had a couple of summer showers, but mostly it’s been warm and sunny and beautiful. I’m so glad I’ve had this week off work and could fully enjoy it! Above is a photo of Utrecht, taken Tuesday night. It was MUGGY and warm that evening but still it just [...] I promised photos of my progress with Lyra, and here’s photo number 2, up through row 51. I had to slip most of the stitches onto a smaller but longer needle in order to get this photo. Just for you dear readers. Now I have slip them all back. I have, finally, started a Lyra (the link is a flickr search result). This is currently the most well known of Herbert Niebling’s designs (sorry, the only link I could find was a commercial one to a book for sale - i wish there was a wikipedia page about Niebling, a German man who designed [...] Today I received another shipment of Madelinetosh lace weight yarn. This is 100% merino in just gorgeous colors! Look at this rainbow! I have in the shop 20 different colors of lacey goodness. |
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