i'm slowly finishing up the third clue of the rockefeller. i-cord bind off is a booger, let me tell you. it's not hard, mind you, just takes for.ev.er to complete.
in the middle of knitting Rockefeller i heard about laura nelkin's trapeze mystery shawl kal. this was another lace and bead shawl pattern, which used two colors of beads. i searched for yarn in cleveland and bought 2 skeins of tosh merino light in dried rose before deciding to buy two skeins of tosh sock in steam age. i bought a couple colors of beads that coordinated with either colors - the ones i don't use i can use for a future project.
why did i choose steam age? most of my shawls are either green or purple. actually, the majority of my stash is green, purple or blue. i have very little grey in my stash, and i liked the tarnished color of steam age. of course it has a bit of magenta and peacock blue spotted throughout. what can i say? i like purple and blue-green.
you know those ads they have at the bottom of ravelry pages? those things are the work of the devil - i lose more money to them! anywho, i saw an ad for malice in wonderland. as the name suggests, it sounds like a doozy of a KAL. i'm always up for a challenge tho, so i bought the pattern and stash dived for yarn. as luck had it, i had the perfect "widely variegated" fingering weight with enough yardage for the shawl, but i needed to find a coordinating solid to go with it. the dried rose tosh would fit the bill, but i put it in destash on rave and as luck had it, someone wanted to buy it (from denmark, no less). i sighed, prayed to the karma gods, and took the yarn off destash and emailed the knitter back that unfortunately i couldn't sell it (thankfully she understood). this KAL begins in a few weeks, but i'll be knitting on trapeze, so it'll have to wait.
if two KALs weren't enough, i found this TBA KAL. beads and garter ridges. i just need to dig up 720 yards of sport weight!
i also bought yarn to make the kiddos hoot cardigans. i have no idear when i'm going to knit these!
my name is k1k2, and i'm addicted to shawl knit alongs. help me!
in the middle of knitting Rockefeller i heard about laura nelkin's trapeze mystery shawl kal. this was another lace and bead shawl pattern, which used two colors of beads. i searched for yarn in cleveland and bought 2 skeins of tosh merino light in dried rose before deciding to buy two skeins of tosh sock in steam age. i bought a couple colors of beads that coordinated with either colors - the ones i don't use i can use for a future project.
why did i choose steam age? most of my shawls are either green or purple. actually, the majority of my stash is green, purple or blue. i have very little grey in my stash, and i liked the tarnished color of steam age. of course it has a bit of magenta and peacock blue spotted throughout. what can i say? i like purple and blue-green.
you know those ads they have at the bottom of ravelry pages? those things are the work of the devil - i lose more money to them! anywho, i saw an ad for malice in wonderland. as the name suggests, it sounds like a doozy of a KAL. i'm always up for a challenge tho, so i bought the pattern and stash dived for yarn. as luck had it, i had the perfect "widely variegated" fingering weight with enough yardage for the shawl, but i needed to find a coordinating solid to go with it. the dried rose tosh would fit the bill, but i put it in destash on rave and as luck had it, someone wanted to buy it (from denmark, no less). i sighed, prayed to the karma gods, and took the yarn off destash and emailed the knitter back that unfortunately i couldn't sell it (thankfully she understood). this KAL begins in a few weeks, but i'll be knitting on trapeze, so it'll have to wait.
if two KALs weren't enough, i found this TBA KAL. beads and garter ridges. i just need to dig up 720 yards of sport weight!
i also bought yarn to make the kiddos hoot cardigans. i have no idear when i'm going to knit these!
my name is k1k2, and i'm addicted to shawl knit alongs. help me!
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