I love this stole pattern. It's done strip method, and has a flower-y look to it.
It's from 1952.
( Barbara Stole )

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I'm afraid I don't have any pictures right now to offer, but this is a method my daughter and I have used with great success to dye/paint silk shawls. She was 5 at the time, so it's a really simple process with some pretty surprisingly good results.

You'll need a silk shawl/scarf, E and I used 44x44 inch blanks, but next ( Read more... )

For example, I was trying to figure out some math for shawls. I got all caught up in trying to make sense of Pythagorean formulas for right angle triangles, and lost sight of a simple fact that really simplified the math. Worse? I KNEW it. It's a mathy thing I had figured out a while back, but for some reason, didn't remember and it took a ( Read more... )

Something I didn't think of until we went to turn in the movies the kids picked out last time we went to the library was looking at the craft section in the kids area of the library ( Read more... )

( picture of the finished shawl )

( fringing now )

Incredible yarn is 2.00 a ball at Michael's this week. Matrix is 1.00 a ball. Bad me bought up the 6 or 7 remaining balls of dk red Matrix last night at my local Michaels. I also got some yarn to make Emily a scarf/hat set. She has many hats, and many scarves, but no sets. I picked up Incredible in Carnival and Blue Shades, enough of each for ( Read more... )

This time of the year, I miss my mother so much it hurts, she died in September, her birthday is October, my grandmother died in November (yeah, 2 months after my mom. It was a HARD year), and then the holidays ( Read more... )

I'm soo broke. I spent too much this week and I know it ( Read more... )

I'm sick sick sick. So I'm not sure how much sense I'm going to make ( Read more... )