Madli, deeply finished!…

… And sent away (or just about!) Little project summary: Pattern: Madli’s Shawl, by Nancy Bush (Ravelry link) Yarn: 1.7 skeins of Malabrigo Lace in Continental Blue Mods: I didn’t do the nupps in the main part of the stole and I used 3.25mm needles. I also changed the garter rows before the grafting part, [...]

In the pipelines

Feels like I haven’t talked about anything crafty in a long time! I have been busy though, but I didn’t have anything finished to show. Well, I still don’t have anything finished, but I thought that I should share what I am working on at the moment and the progress being made. You remember the [...]

Madli

I have started working again on a lacy stole I began last month. I took a break to start and finish the Seaweed socks that should be off this week to their final destination. That is, if my husband remembers to get a birthday card… I blogged yesterday about my eczema and how it was [...]

Bitterroot

I have finally finished my Bitterroot shawlette. The knitting had been finished for nearly a month (see this earlier post), but it needed to be washed and blocked to be considered fully finished. I bought some blocking wires, which helped a lot. But I think I could have blocked it even harder. I did block [...]

Ooooh Ooooh! Miss you!

The upstairs neighbour is listening to The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You” on repeat, so that kinda inspired the title of this blog post… Same neighbour who almost got us killed a couple of months ago. Not sure I blogged about it then. Long story short: while he was away, one of his gas pipes broke [...]