I've knit some really nice lace in my time ( Gold & Grace, Nubles, Cherry Red, Melon Scarf, Elaine, Woodland), but faced with the VLT Knitalong on January 1st my urge to knit lace sort of imploded. I've bought some lovely laceweight yarn in the past few months, but lace takes a lot of concentration, and I've been trying to knit socially more often. ( Read more... )

I finished the Fire Clapotis last night and now I'll have something obscenely pink for my triumphant return to Toronto, the place where I bought the obscenely pink yarn in the first place.


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Since last week or so I've been knitting on two new projects : a Fire Clapotis and some No Purl Monkeys for my mother. They have a twelve and an eleven row pattern repeat (respectively), so I've been doing about one pattern repeat on each project each night. I knit a bit on the Monkeys, ending on a non knit-all row so I can see where I left off, ( Read more... )