FO and Travel Plans

I have actually finished another project, yeah!

Specs: Wrought Iron
Pattern: Ironwrought Scarf
Designer: Anna Dalvi
Source: Ravelry store

Yarn: Dye-version Silver (Merino, Silk, Nylon, and Sterling Silver), 100gr/421yds in the colourway Midnight
Yardage: about 95% of the skein
Needles: 4.5mm circs
Cast-On: July 6.09 at knit night
Bound Off: (in this case, grafted the ends together) July 17.09
Blocked: July 19-21.09 (the theatre [...]

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True Blue

Apparently I have a thing for blue… not that this is much of a surprise (looking at my project page or my wardrobe…).
Today, my FO is blue, my WIP is blue, and the UFO I’m avoiding, also blue. But since I am avoiding the last, I’ll do my review of Sock Innovation instead.
First up [...]

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Overwrought

Seems to be the appropriate title for me over the last few months, but instead I’ll apply it to this FO, which is pretty fan-fricking-tastic in my humble opinion, I think I’ll have to knit a few more of these.  As a side note this was my Canada Day project, Canadian pattern source (okay, Swedish [...]

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Projects, Projects Everywhere

and, of course, the camera doesn’t work.
I have started the second Oyster Bay Shawl, in Tickled Pink – which is a really really lovely pink. (Hey Lizzie, did you hear that, I like this pink!) I’m almost half way through the repeats of the main chart, so there is hope for finishing it in [...]

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It was the wool fumes…

I swear! Well… actually, all things considered I did pretty darn well.
Yes, I bought yarn. I was down on King West (like really far west… as in almost to Roncevalles west) and what do you do when you have hours to kill after a meeting at that end of town before you can catch the [...]

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oohhh shiny!

Yesterday my Loopy Ewe order came! I had ordered Stricken and Ornette and 2 skeins of Malabrigo Lace in the Cypress colourway.

And since it was my 6th order, I achieved Loopy Groupie status (I won’t spoil it for anyone else waiting to see what the surprises are). But I will say this, I am beginning [...]

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FO: Streaks of Midnight

I have a new shawl – wanna see?

The centre back tip
Specs
Name: Streaks of Midnight
Pattern: Diamond Fantasy
Designer: Sivia Harding
Source: Ravelry Store

Yarn: Fleece Artist 2/6 Merino
Colourway: Midnight
Yardage: nearly 2 full skeins
Source: the Loopy Ewe
Neeldes: 3.25mm fixed circ

Cast-on: Oct. 19.08
Bound-off: Oct. 26.08
Blocked: Oct. 28.08
Finished Dimensions: 72″ long side, 38″ centre back

Notes: Great pattern, love the I-cord bind-off (didn’t [...]

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Third Time’s a Charm

Didn’t work for the socks… didn’t like where the magical mystical tour was going… but I seem to have finally found a pattern that my Fleece Artist Merino Sock 2/6 wants to be when it grows up.
I cast on the Diamond Fantasy Shawl (by Sivia Harding) over the weekend, looking for something harder than socks [...]

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Oh. My. Gosh. SQUEE!!

Look! Look! Look! Look!

It’s so fine, the camera won’t focus!!
I made lace – not like before where my singles were lace (like this):

Lovely, but infuriatingly fingering weight when plied.
But really real lace, lace where when I ply it it will absolutely be lace, not light fingering, but lace lace!! YEAH!!!!

I bought 50g of custom blended [...]

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Approximately

I can proudly report that: most of the laundry is done (I’m down to the last duvet and whatever has accumulated in the last day and a half).
The pie met with mixed reviews, A. for whom it was gluten free really liked it, Dad also claimed to like it, and the rest of us ate [...]

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