I have been working on a knitted lace shawl since the end of June, and I can finally say it's done! I am pleased with my first official lace shawl, and it's given me the confidence to do even more in the future.

This is a photo of it, blocking on our pull out sofa bed. It's based on the principle of Pi, the ratio between the circumference of a circle to its radius. If I remember my geometry right, it's expressed as a fraction as 22/7, or in a decimial as 3.14 ...(ad infinitum). At any rate, it certainly makes a lovely shawl!

After all that math and lace, I switched to something much smaller in scale, and ever so much faster... the Shalom Cardigan. Here it is in progress (note, it's barely in progress!)

Lastly, I've been having fun dyeing yarn, so I decided to go ahead and dye some fiber and spin it up to see what I'd get. I dyed using my left over Easter Egg dye, and I'm thrilled with the results...

It looks like candy to me, and so sweet, you could practically eat it! I'll definitely be doing more dyeing and spinning in the future. It's like big kid play time! |
Sep. 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment