After the Rain

We had the pleasure of a visitor that stayed for quite awhile the other night. He crawled up and down the door, disappearing occasionaly and then returning. Is he a baby bullfrog or a rain frog. Regardless, I love to hear them after rains.

Redbud Tone-on-Tone Colorway

This is one of the last tone-on-tone colorways that I designed after the Redbud tree. Theresa, this picture is the small skein; I have one of those left and 4 of the larger ones.

Happy Easter! Happy Day!

He is risen! It has been a beautiful day here to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you and yours.

More Knitting Projects Finished in 2009 - Installment 2

Begun on October 18 and finished on November 11, this project is for our guild's Think Pink show to be held next month. I've named it Celebration of Life Shrug. Although the shrug design is my own, I followed Jane Thornley's stitches in her Paua Shell Topper. It is very warm and can be worn in 2 directions. One direction is longer in the back. It makes a nice shawl collar worn that way.



Front worn the long way



Detail of the front worn the long way



Back worn the long way



Back detail worn the long way



Front collar detail worn with shawl collar



Detail of the front worn the short way



Back collar detail worn the short way



Detail of the back worn the short way

More Knitting Projects Finished in 2009-Installment 1

I knitted a lot in 2009 and seldom stopped to mark progress with blogging during the busy fall season. Rather than postiing all today, I will post all in the next few days; stay tuned.

The first that I finished on October 29 was the Sea Island Shrug inspired by Jane Thornley's Autumn Grasses Caped Cardigan.

I knitted a medium-sized bodice from using Jane Thornley’s guidelines. I wasn’t satisfied with the way the stripes were looking on me and so I changed the directions of the stripes. Rather than increasing for armholes, I decreased until I got to the cuff and did a k2,p2 ribbing. On the other side, I took out the cast on, put it back on the needles and repeated the decreases that I made on the other side. I finished off with a k3,p1 ribbing for about 6”. The binding is lying flat mostly except for the collar which probably will not due to the weight of the shrug. When I get the nerve, I will steek the collar as Christie suggested.




The bottom 2 pictures show how the garment is made to lift the collar to wear.

Forest Glen Shrug

This is the latest knitting project I've finished inspired by Jane Thornley's Autumn Grasses Cardigan. My fabrics don't always turn out like patterns, as I enjoy letting the fabric dictate the style in which it would look best based on the finished size of my fabric, drape and to what looks best on my body.

When it was time to do armhole shaping, I increased rapidly rather than decreasing slowly as the pattern indicated, until I had a good width. I then placed the fabric on a lifeline and held the fabric up to my torso to see what would look best on me; a shrug was the answer. The increases provided a nice cap sleeve. I folded it in half and joined the sides for the length of the increases. Then, I double-crocheted around the perimiter with Manos handspun and single-crocheted around the armhole openings. The shrug was finished with 8 mm beads. I look forward to wearing this soon.


Forest Glen Shrug - Back


Forest Glen Shrug - Detail of Back Collar


Forest Glen Shrug - Detail of Back Edge


Forest Glen Shrug - Detail of Front Collar

Forest Glen Cardigan

This is the cardigan I am knitting for the soon-to-take-place knitalong with Jane Thornley's group on Ravelry, the Autumn Grasses Caped Cardigan. Golden colors, as much as I love them, wreak havoc with my complexion so, I am knitting in mostly blacks, grays and browns with touches of green including a golden green. I look forward to seeing how this is going to turn out.