March 21, 2008

Robin is taunting me......

I giddily drove to spring my new-to-me Robin wheel from the Post Office at lunch. It is chilling in the back seat of my SUV, where he/she has been taunting me all afternoon from the parking lot ready to leave the cardboard prison. He/she would like to come out and play, but I have to work! His/her call is getting louder the closer it gets to quitting time - only a half hour more my sweet! Bwahahahaha

March 09, 2008

Waiting

Spalted
Robin Wheel - Special Edition Spalted Birdseye Maple - new, 2 year wait

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Winging it's way to me from it's previous home in New York - 6 yr. old

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Priceless

March 08, 2008

Snow

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Six plus inches - March 7, 2008

January 16, 2008

Lizzy

I'm knitting Lizzy from the Naturally Noro book in Noro Silver Thaw in colorway #9 for my Mom.  She spotted a sample at one of the yarn shops in Nashville when I was visiting over Christmas.  Lucky for me the store did not have the number of skeins I needed to make her the sweater - they had one, I needed 4.  I found it online at littleknits.com for half price - yippee!  I ordered 5 skeins because we wanted to lengthen the sleeves (which are written as 3/4 length).  I have finished one front and am almost thru with the second.  I've tried really hard to match the stripes - as much as you can with Noro.  When I told her that the stripes would not match, front to back, because it's a cardigan and the stripes would be narrower on the back than the front - I think she kind of freaked.  She did not remember that it had any stripes.  Wonderful.  I emailed her a few finished pics of sweaters I found thru Ravelry (flickr pics).  She didn't really like the one in her yarn.  Too dark, too purple, too much brown.  Wonderful.  At least I initially bought this book a few years ago, because I liked this sweater.  Just hadn't knit it yet.  Obviously changed my mind for some reason.

Lizzy left front

Mods - I knit an inch of seed stitch hem because I didn't want the stockinette rolling hem.  I've made slight waist shaping - at 5 inches I added a waist decrease, then another after 6 rows.  I knit 12 rows then  added an increase and another after 8 rows. 

It's really hard to photograph this color.  It's much more subtle in person.

January 11, 2008

Bird in Hand mitten

Just one

BIH mitten right
Bird close
BIH mittens in progress

Left mitten has been frogged back to the wrist - too big.

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