Stitches was a blast and I am still recovering from the wealth of information and OMG! the market. It was a dark and rainy weekend in Chi town and the weather followed me home. I actually had to pull over twice the skies were so dark and the rain so thick. Mind you it was between 1 and 7 pm. Power was down in some areas of St Louis when I got home and my computer needed a reboot which didn’t occur til Thursday~ the radio silence really was all about timing last week.

During the interim I finished STTS. I keep thinking I should maybe block her before I show her but lets make it a before and after dealie…. Before:

There is some serious 3-D stuff going on in this shawl:

See all the bloops around first lace pattern~ before increase round? The epitome of peaks. Again near the increase round of second lace pattern and the third lace pattern is all lumpy bumpy. This probably means I will be blocking sooner than later to see how it all looks in the end. For the edging BO and sewing together I substituted the Russian Graft technique I learned at Stitches and I am gonna close up when it is blocked to decide how much we lurv it. OK I could go on and on about stuff from last week but then what would we blog about the rest of week hmmmmmmm? Til tomorrow~

yarny days and knitterly evenings ;^>

We are just now finished with edging repeat 65/115. Can you stand it?

As always a yarny day and knitterly evening to all my readers~ toodles

Ah so I decided to not complete the Artyarns scarf. Very slow knitting. Mind you the results were stunning but I just couldn’t get my fingers to cooperate. I realize other people do odious stuff for the sake of the J. O. B. but I am freelance knitter person and I need to get my groove on! Ummm not to imply it was odious just not my thang right now.

Guess what I picked up again? Ummmmm you do read the blog right? Enough to remember I was working quite deligently on Shetland Tea Time Shawl? Yes. It took me a few hours to figure out where I was in the pattern since I didn’t jot down a little note to self. My fingers aren’t cooperating on this one either. There is a rhythm to lace and I have my own particular language. This particular row[the one I stopped in middle of] was *k, together, over, k, over, together, over, slip 2 k pass over, over, SKA over SKA over knit over SKA* I have no idea where I picked up the SKA but thats what I mutter to myself while I work the row ‘together over kay SKA over kay SKA’ and if I am knitting steadily it turns into a little song. There is always an emphasis on SKA and note the lack of comma’s which any outloud reader knows indicates a slight pause.

Anyway I am working on getting my groove on with the shawl. I sincerely hope your knitting is putting you into a jive-alicious groove too ~ yarny day and knitterly evening to all!

Ah so I took the advice of my commenters last week and took a time out. After all my readers are particularly clever gals and I would be foolish to ignore them. No work for me last weekend but rather a break for Tea. Shetland Tea Shawl to be exact. I finished the second lace portion and did my final increase round. Up to 574sts per round which means a mere 27,552 or 48,216 sts more until edging portion. Hmmmmmmm I wonder if I will feel up to the larger size which I suspect I want. No matter here is a picture of the second lace portion really poorly stretched out cause I wasn’t gonna risk loosing any sts and had to hold it with one hand and photograph with the other:

/Question and Answer time~ I was asked if Stonington could be knit as a triangle. Why yes it could. I would make a few changes most specifically to work a few plain rounds after creating the center triangle to finish that edge up. If I were feeling ambitious I would even calculate to make sure I could attach my edging to top, including the side of borders, by doing math. I was also asked if I purchased yarn. Why yes I did. Some loverly {at least I expect it to be loverly} coned yarn from one of my favorite ebay sellers. No I am not sharing her name cause I cannot afford the bidding wars that are already in place and don’t need more fans fighting me for her stuff. Over the past ummm jeesh I think its been 4 or 5 years I have only managed to win the wars on 5 items including this time. And I try all the time really. I won 2lbs 15 oz of yarn {thats the cones stuff there is another 400 gms or 7 oz in hanks} I will make sure to show you the second I receive it. Why do I love this gals yarn so much? Its fine. NO not fine with all the winx but fine. Hey here is a pix of some of her stuff I already own: 
The fine gray strand is silk and kid mohair and my last purchase of last year. Yah I held out on you guys. The white strand is silk and cashmere. The thicker gray strand is put in there for comparisons sake~ its shetland laceweight yarn from J&S. I’m stocking up for the lace book that is due out soon please by Bridget Rorem. I preordered mine last summer from Schoolhouse Press.

Yay it was Amy who is knitting the loverly Coquette. I have been popping into her site via the referers page of site meter and enjoying her blog immensely for the past month~ she is now bookmarked. I sent a pkg out to Miss Steph for correctly identifying the blogger and leave it up to her to show you what she gets.

Toodles fellow knitters…. have a great yarny day and knitterly evening