Fingernail Friday

Not so much knitting as....

seaming! and seaming and seaming...it never seems to end! But I have gotten thus far:

Landon Bay

Checked out the Landon Bay hiking trails. These trails were a bit more 'rustic'. In other words, they were more what I would picture as a hiking trail. Ups and downs, rocks to go around and over etc. The trailhead was marked nicely:

A pic of the trail:

See? Rocks and trees and stuff! The trail lead to a nice view of the bay:

and a little bridge along the edge of the bay:


All in all, a very nice place to take a hike!

KP Trail

Went hiking out on the KP Trail. It is an old railway right of way that has been rehabbed into a hiking/biking/horseback riding trail.

There were a multitude of deerflies, so bring your bugspray! It goes through farmland so the view is pretty much what you would expect.

Aaaaaand then I got home and saw this in my backyard:

Hiking in the wilderness indeed! Apparently my backyard was more wild than the trail!

Lazy Katy Progress

I am currently working on a Lazy Katy shawlette/scarf. This is Smooshy sock yarn.

It doesn't look like much right now. I just started the first row on the lacy border and realized about 1/3 of hte way in that I started on the wrong side of the chart. headdesk
So I will have to tink back a bit and try that again....

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NOT with Extra Protein

I like to sit on my deck. I like to have refreshig beverages while sitiing on my deck. I do not like having bugs befoul my refreshing beverage. I have devised a method to prevent said bugs from committing suicide in my refreshing beverage:



To whit, the saucer from my espresso cup set.

Next up!

I am on a shawl roll. I keep seeing lovely ones that NEED to be made. The next one is the LazyKaty.

Ciao

An FO!

I have finished my first Faroese style shawl. It has been christened the Camoshawl.

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A tribute to childhood

Having trouble with the sizing...click on pic and select original size on Flickr...



By Chris Lester

Fingernail Friday

Sometimes I wish...I was on a tropical beach...

Next Up!

Having finished the lovely circular shawl, I started poking around trying to decide what to make next. In the midst of all this, hubby and I discovered that his credit card may have been hacked when Sony screwed up with the information protection systems. So I am restricted to free patterns, until this is sorted. Fortunately, there were no funky charges on the card, so it's just a matter of getting a new one. I have been looking at Faroese shawl designs and decided to try a simple one first. Summer Shawlette , it's a free pattern at Knitting Daily. So far, it's been a clear pattern, with no surprises.

I am not quite getting gauge. Should be 4 stitches per inch and I am getting 4.5 and row should be 6.25 rows per inch and I am getting 5. However, that is unblocked and, lets say it all together, swatches LIE. And that is all this is at this point, essentially, a swatch. Besides, it's a shawl, not exactly a gauge-critical project, right?
Ciao

FO Time

I have finished the shawl!



Elvis Approves of this shawl.




Stats

Yarn: Sweet Sheep BFL superwash. super skein. (about 800 yards)
Needles size: 7
Time to completion: approx a month (project monogamy FTW)
Diameter of shawl: 46 inches

The cast on was a complete and utter pain. After I got it, a friend on Rav, upon hearing of my frustration, told me of a trick used in circular starts with few stitches: cast on with doubled yarn for half the number of stitches and then 'spread' the stitches out. The errata on the project page has NOT been put into the pattern, so please make sure you know where the errata goes!

Otherwise, this is a mindless knit once you get into the repeat section and is very impressive once it is finished.

ciao

Round and Round and Round and Round

.....we go! My Candian Shawl continues. Current stats: approx 92 inches around. Approx 100 gram of yarn left (on my incrediby inaccurate kitchen scale) Ciao

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Spring Thing nails!

Round and Round and Round and Round.....

I am working happily on my Candian Whirlppol shawl. It's 408 stitches around, currently. So it is growing a little less quickly than it did at the beginning. here's a couple of crappily lit pics: It's grey and thunderstormy out, so the natural light leaves a lot to be desired. The flash leaves a lot to be desired too, but beggars can't be choosers. I don't want to switch to longer circs till I have to, so it's all squished up on the shorter ones. I am rather glad the rain came as forcast today. Yesterday hubs and I did the sprinkling of the cornmeal on the lawn to keep the crabgrass away and give the grass a bit of a feed. So the rain will help melt that in a bit. Spring. It might actually be here!

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The "I Hope Spring is Here" Edition.....

Spring!

The weather today is beautiful....for once. It's been a long, grey winter. So, I decided the other day to cast on something with spring colours. The Vortex shawl in some 'mistake yarn' dyed by the Sweet Sheep. The cast on was a MAJOR PITA. 8 stitches on 4 dpns. Yeah, twisted the stitches, dropped dpns, you name it, I did it. Finally tried it via magic loop, and while I still had to cast on a few times to get it right, it was slightly less frustrating. If you try this pattern, please note the errata on the Ravelry project page. I mistakenly assumed the pdf would have been corrected. It was not. Much swearing ocurred. Another note, when the designer says 'place stitch markers beteween sections' or repeats or whatever, she means the grouping of stitches. Also, when you get to the ....and repeat these 2 rows until size desired is reached....part, the directions are for each repeat between the stitch markers. The pattern is a little unclear about that. All that aside, once you get going it is very easy to do. It is lace knitting that can be done in front of the tv. It is also very impressive looking. The second picture has truer colours. On my monitor at any rate. Ciao