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Well Then.

Posted in Adventures, cute kids, Doozer, Knitting, Lace, life on May 1, 2012 | 4 Comments »

So it looks like I let 2 whole months go by without a new blog post! And while I ordinarily wouldn’t let it go so long, I think that I must’ve needed the head space, because I am returning to you revitalized and more inspired to write than ever. So inspired, in fact, that I [...]

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Slow Going

Posted in Knitting, Lace on September 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Well, I’ve been working on the edge of the Blue Blossom shawl for a few days now. Man, oh man, is it tedious. The thing is knitted on sideways and incorporates 3 of the shawl stitches into every repeat. I think that means I am doing 100 or so repeats of the edge (6 rows [...]

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THE FFFFFUUUUU…….

Posted in Knitting, Lace, tagged on January 21, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I sat down dutifully today with the Blue Blossom Shawl, a bunch of knitting tools, and my camera. The plan was to document my first attempt at lace surgery a la Romi. Two problems were immediately apparent. One, the lace pattern shifts every 8 rows, making it difficult to see where the beginning of the [...]

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Upon Further Consideration

Posted in Knitting, Lace, tagged on January 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The more I’ve thought about it, the more I realize that I need to go back and fix those dropped stitches. Otherwise, this: is going to bug the crap out of me. At first I thought I would just put in a life line and rip the whole thing back, but I think I’m going [...]

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A Lace Knitting Breakthrough

Posted in Knitting, Lace on June 18, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Remember how I was making slow and painstaking progress on the Blue Blossom Shawl and feeling extremely stressed out by it? Well, I finally got a clue and made myself a crapton of very delicate and very sparkly stitch markers. I placed them at the beginning of each pattern repeat, and then something just clicked. [...]

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It’s a start. Sort of.

Posted in Knitting, Lace on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So, it turns out that designing lace is really really hard. Especially if you’ve never done anything like it before. I think I’ve gotten a fairly decent start, though. See the references I have gathered? I think I’m ready to get out some graph paper and start sketching. Have you, reader, designed lace? What references [...]

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Watch out for the lace bug, it bites!

Posted in Knitting, Lace on August 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve spent a lot of knitting time over the past couple of weeks, poring over circular shawl projects on Ravelry. And stitch dictionaries. And old doily patterns. Because I am crazy. I want to design my own circular shawl, even though I am lace noob. So consumed am I by my passion for this, that [...]

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