two knits of ivory

I finished my eighth(!) Shetland Triangle this weekend. No, that picture above is not the Shetland Triangle. I don't have any recent pictures. I'm not motivated to take pictures of anything lately, even the record number of yarn skeins I wound into cakes on Saturday. Instead of bemoaning my creative paucity, I've decided to fill in the blanks with an unblogged project from last year's deadspot. Last spring I knit a lovely Serenity baby blanket for my husband's best friend's first child, a baby girl. Did I mention this is a free pattern? It is a free pattern, and from the charts at least, an error free, free pattern. I really enjoyed knitting this project. And the reason's why are, what? What did I like about this project? Do I even know? Hmmm. 1) The lace was challenging but not fussy. 2) The occasional cabling was easy, and eye pleasing. 3) The yarn is Dream in Color's Classy, in the Chinatown Apple colorway. I took a big ...

1. 2009mosaic , 2. Strange Fruit Clothilde , 3. Cable Warshrags , 4. Indian Rib , 5. Dishcloth , 6. Midnight Moon Clothilde , 7. Flinstone Rib , 8. Febrillious , 9. Eire Shetland , 10. Pumpkin Waffle knitting , 11. Pumpkin Waffle knitting , 12. Sunday Ribalib , 13. Cranberry Forest , 14. Retro Rib Socks , 15. Cool Haas Luke , 16. EOS_2184b , 17. Spruce Baby Llama Shetland , 18. Cinnamon Toast Ishbel , 19. Jen's Gloves , 20. Limeade Warshrag , 21. Another Shetland , 22. Jellied Beans , 23. Leaf on the Wind , 24. Marina Waves Socks , 25. Woodland Embossed Leaves Socks , 26. Gold Hill Cable Rib Socks , 27. Shetland Triangle Hat , 28. Tweed Seed Rib Sweater , 29. Cocoa Lace Scarf , 30. Shetland Tweed Mitts , 31. Pink Granite Lace Hat , 32. Pink Granite Shetland Triangle 1 Baby Blanket 5 Dishcloths 1 pair of Gloves 4 Hats 2 pair of Mitts 1 Scarf 9 Shawls 7 pair of Socks 3 Sweaters 31 Projects, 33 Items, 17 (52%) were gifts. I've seriously pondered calculating the yard...

LOL. What a whiner. I've been concerned that my last post was a little too bitter in tone. I wanna keep things light around here, and this morning I found the humor in it: Me. This is one of the reasons I identify with the wall flower Bella, everything is do or die with this character and here I was whining about how boring she is as if it were do or die. Me: "Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who's the whiniest of them all?" Mirror: "Well Dear Knitter, you don't have to be bitter, as it is you the whiniest Drama Llama queenie pie pie." I've been contemplating other things besides Twilight. No, really. Watching myself knit my recent FO, the Strange Fruit Clothilde , an interesting thought occurred to me. When I knit, in particular, knit lace, my hands are actually graceful. It's like hand ballet and it makes me feel lovely inside. Being short and squat, in body and digits, and congenitally poor at most hand crafts such as drawing, painting,...