Sep 01 2008
lace, lace everywhere.
I thought, since I tend to be kind of AWOL lately, I would share a few photos of my WIPs and nearly FOs.
They are mostly sort of ’secret’ (ie. unpublished) at the moment but most of them should be available by the end of the month (with any luck some should be available at the KW show in a few weeks - x your fingers - it’s been challenging to keep the pace lately and as is typical when I’m dyeing like a madwoman for a show, I’ve come down with a chest cold… ick). Today I should make decent progress (now that the deck is finally stained - I’ve been wanting to do so for a year or so but last summer came and went and this year there have not been many stretches of dry days in a row - I jumped on the bandwagon this weekend, not wanting to think another summer would go by without completing the task. I am hoping to park in my usual spot with the laptop and spend a good chunk of the day fighting this cold and knitting productively.
My back deck is kind of my oasis (even when shared with a 3-year-old lining up trains and crashing them loudly surrounding items it has a certain peacefulness LOL).
This is the view from my chair if you look up:
This tree is one of the things I love about our property. I’m not sure what kind of maple it is; it’s huge, with large leaves that last well into the fall. Sometimes the snow comes before it turns on its fall colours.
I am really grateful to have this little spot to work.
This motif is one I’ve been working on for years… finally getting knitted into a shawl. Swatches have been floating around my desk for what seems like forever. Can you see what I see? I’m not sure how apparent it will be to the viewer… but I also love the idea of someone thinking ‘oh, pretty lace’ and then realizing the shawl is covered in dancing dragonflies.
This one is taking a long time to complete but I’m getting to the lower edge. It is very gratifying to near the finish line on this one (someone is waiting on this design with wonderful patience).
I wanted also to share a few feathers in my cap (I know, probably too many photos but who knows when I will find a moment to blog again…):
I never got a photo of the competition (there was lots) because my batteries were pooping out. The Laminaria shawl was also chosen to go to an Ontario regional fair in February. It’s nice to be recognized online, but also very nice at the local level. The ladies at the local knitting group had been urging me to enter for a while and I finally did.
And so, you can see I’ve (as usual) got my work cut out for me. ;)
When my eyeballs are tired of manipulating lace stitches and fitzing around with spreadsheets making and checking charts, I have this:
It’s great for baseball and movies, and, unfortunately, days like today spent watching the track of a nasty storm on CNN. :( My thoughts are with everyone affected. I can’t imagine.
