aestlight, originally uploaded by katie:m.
Aestlight is finished. And has been for a while. It’s a lovely, light, and rather colorful, shawl that deserves its own post.
Until then, I will leave you to ponder: how does one accumulate seven size US9/5.5mm circs? In various materials? When one only very rarely [...]
Yeah, well, I am feeling like a bit of a lame duck. Or a poor chicken, as the Germans would have it.
Basically, I can’t seem to get my camera to take non-crappy photos. They’re always kind of dark, kind of blurry, kind of lame. So I don’t post. And now I have a big backlog [...]
Noun: Worry; anxiety.
Transitive verb: To worry; to annoy.
That pretty much covers it.
In an attempt to get around all of the worriting going on here, I made some muffins. Hearty breakfast muffins with whole-wheat flour, muesli, honey, dried fruit, and fresh blueberries. My oven is wonky (i.e. broken) and they are a bit under-done, but still [...]
girasole, originally uploaded by katie:m.
I’ve used the title before, but it’s a good one: short and to the point. Indeed, this shawl is very much an on-going endeavor.
After visiting a friend over the weekend — a trip which provided not only a welcome change of scenery, but also much knitting time on the train — [...]
The edging is almost finished. Just a few more episodes of Kath & Kim reruns and I might be finished.
Now if the blocking wires would arrive …
Maybe it was all that Kath & Kim I watched over the weekend. But this is turning out a bit more colorful than I’d had in mind.
Although I’m halfway finished with the edging, I’m still not sure about that purple stripe, waylaid up there between the body of the shawl and the bird’s eye lace. [...]
My original plan of pairing the Aestlight shawl with aran-weight wool went south. Not, of course, until I’d practically finished the thing. No photos to document that particular pile of FAIL. The yarn was just too chunky; the shawl was just too big and unwieldy.
All of my various attempts to modify and make work left [...]
I must say, though it was nice to be home — not to mention the only way I was going to get my work finished up — I did miss my blue table. And my main kitty, too. (Not pictured. She went to the vet this morning and is not feeling photogenic.)
The first of the [...]
Why I cannot keep aran in its proper place on the wool-weight spectrum will perhaps remain a mystery for the ages.
It has something to do, I think, with the fact that, in my mind, I associate “aran” with a traditional sweater, one of those knit on tiny needles using tiny wool for burly fisherman who [...]
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