Souvenir Yarn

While waiting for Miss Stephanie Sunday, we decided to walk the short distance to Busy Hands and do a little yarn shopping. I mean, 20% off the entire store? That was reason to go even without the wait!

What you see above is the loot I scored at the store. Two skeins of Malabrigo laceweight in Velvet Grapes, 100% Baby Merino, 470 yards and a skein of Grignasco Merino Silk, 75% Merino, 25% Silk, 1533 yds. I've been feeling lacy lately. :)

I have no idea what I am going to make with this yet, but I know it will be fabulous. I also got my prize for winning Sheri's contest. I'll talk about that in my next post. :)

Holy Lace BatMan!

Oh, Great Knitting Goddess, what have I done?

I'm involved with this group called the Lafayette Lacers and there was this guy and he had a camera and I'm in this video thingy and holy shit.

By the way, he only sort of got it right. My grandma did teach me to knit when I was very young, but I didn't remember beyond a month or so. I taught myself to knit from the Lionbrand manual my freshman year here at Purdue University.

I can't believe I'm on the news, me with my shawl, the shawl I knit from Miriam's pattern. EEK!

Fibery Decorating

I finally took Christmas down last week and I needed to put some sort of decoration on the fireplace. So, I looked around my house for inspiration and what do you think I found? Why yarn, roving, and fibery tools, of course! As fiber and its many manifestations has taken over my life in the last few years, I decided to make a display with some of my tools, yarn, and other fibery things. Hence, my first picture of this post, my fireplace with fibery pursuits.

I also managed to block my scarf, though it became more of a short shawl, and wash my socks. That was about it though as Beau and I are still sick. Here's a pic of the blocked shawl/scarf. I made several mistakes in this, but as it was practice for the heavy lace knitting I'll be doing this year, I chose not to correct the mistakes. I love the way this blocked out, though I should have encouraged it to be longer and skinnier.

I'm going to go curl up in my chair and work on Will's socks. Well, maybe my sweater. No wait, the shawl that I started! Or maybe I'll cast on a scarf. :)

I feel icky

And Beau does too. He looked so sad in his little bed last night that I took a picture just to prove it. Doesn't he look sad and a little under the weather? I know I feel like he looks, achy head, stuffed up nose and ears, and a sore throat. I've had two cups of tea this evening and I think I need a third. ** That is his pillow and blanket. He just happened to be in a position that I could cover him with the blankie to get the picture. :)


I did manage to get a bit of knitting done this weekend. I finished up this scarf from Victorian Lace Today, but haven't blocked it yet. Better pictures when I do finally get it blocked. I used Alpaca With a Twist laceweight leftover from Grandma's Scribble shawl. I went down a needle size from the suggested and used a US 6 for the body and a US 4 for the border. I had some trouble with the edging as I apparently can't read the corners correctly. I fudged it since this is just a practice piece.


If you're keeping track, this meant that I only had one project on the needles, my sweater. Instead of working on my sweater, I promptly cast on for something else for me. Gloves! Then I went and finished them since I'm feeling icky and didn't want to leave my chair.

Yarn: Scout's Swag, Appletini, ? yardage, 100% wool
Needles: US 1 Britanny Birch DPNs
Pattern: Ann Budd's Handy Book of Patterns (slightly modified to fit my hand better)


Of course, I now only have the sweater on the needles again, but I'm about to remedy that. I'm going to cast on toe-up socks for Will in the Ebony Fleece Artist, and another lace weight shawl in the next day or two. I may not be up to posting in the next few days, but I'll try my best. :)