even more lace

I've been working on this Lace Ribbon Scarf for a while now, and just finally got around to taking pictures of it. It's going really slow... and I have 6 or 7 more of these in my queue for Christmas presents! I've been aiming for one full repeat a day of the lace pattern.



I really like the pattern, though. It's easy to memorize and to tell where you are just by looking at it.



And it's pretty, too!

half way

Here is my Hemlock Ring Blanket with one skein + a few rounds of the second in it!



I love this blanket! This is a pattern that I will definitely make again someday. It's going to be big, too - I'm already just a few rounds away from the "normal sized throw" line, and I have a lot more yarn to knit into it. Good thing there is an extended version of the pattern!

The same designer - Jared Flood - just came out with a new pattern for a baby blanket. Somebody needs to get pregnant just so I can knit that blanket! Come on, people... :)

new friends

Sophie hasn't been well lately, so to make her feel better we went to the fish store...



And came back with these. They don't have names yet, but I made the fish guy work really hard to get one of each color so that we'd be able to tell them apart when they have names :)

a diversion

Last night I hemmed Sophie's long underwear onesie into a shirt (now that she has to go potty all the time those onesies don't work so well!) and I had the leftover fabric just sitting there, so...



Ta-da! A jellyfish shirt. Two "new" shirts in one night, not too bad, eh?

socks off, socks on

Donna's socks are done! They are the "Mermaid Lagoon" color of Imagination sock yarn.





It's more purply than the pictures show, very pretty. And I think there might be just enough extra left over for a pair of toddler socks for Sophie.... :)



And there's new socks on the needles already. This one looks like it's nearly done, but it's actually for my dad and has a long way to go still. It's working up super fast in worsted weight Fisherman's Wool and size 6 needles. They will be warm - and soft and squishy too. I might need to make myself a pair of these this winter.

Here I am last night, enjoying summer still - what's better than knitting in front of the fire??



I was working on my Hemlock Ring Blanket. I'm almost done with the first ball of yarn - Eco Wool - and I think when it runs out I'll put it on scrap yarn and lay it out flat... I can't wait to see the lace stretched out!

knitting lace

My first adventure into lace knitting has somehow turned into three adventures all at once:



The Mystique Sweater (Ravel it) I'm knitting for myself - I'm into the lace panels on the body now - I love this sweater so far, despite having had to cast on three (3) times to get it right. This pattern is a challenge, which is nice, assuming it all turns out right anyways. We'll see! I did the miniature cables in the raglan section, and I'm really glad I did even though it was kind of a pain. If I make this sweater again I'll have to experiment with cabling without a cable needle.



The Hemlock Ring Blanket by Brooklyn Tweed (love this blog!), which is growing so quickly that I had to order longer cables for my new Options needles already! (I love them, by the way.) I'm still on the first ball of yarn, so I think I'll be able to keep going to the very end of the chart rather than stop at the 'standard size' line.

I don't have pictures of the next one yet, but I'm so happy with it so far that I've already ordered yarn for about six more of these (or similar, depending on how bored I get with the same pattern :)... Christmas is coming, you know! It's the Lace Ribbon Scarf, and I'm beginning to wonder if the yarn I have will be enough. That may be a problem as it's in Araucania Ranco and is hand dyed - crossing my fingers that it will turn out to be an acceptable length. The yarn lady assured me that one skein would make a "very long scarf."

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Happy 4th of July!