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Rapunzel Sock update

Alyse — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:44:17 +0000

I have gotten to the spot where the ankle pattern kicks in, there will also be a gusset pattern, but there isn’t enough of it yet to photograph.

OMG its Knit blogging!

Alyse — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:03:45 +0000

I haven’t done this in a while -

Here is some recent knitting – this is a sock pattern that I am designing.

So you want to learn how to knit socks?

Alyse — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:07:22 +0000

Well if you live in the chicago-milwaukee area or will be in that area at the end of June – then you might want to consider taking Universal Sock Construction from Merike Saarniit this summer at Midwest Folk and Fiber. This is the class that I took that started me knitting toe up socks – this class basically will teach you to knit any kind of sock you want, with whatever sock you want.

Lacey Endeavors

Alyse — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:02:43 +0000

I know I have mentioned this to a few people in person, but I haven’t gotten around to mentioning this here. Helen, Maria and I had a little run in with insanity last month. There is a really long and fairly amusing story – but the long and short of it is that we are running a KAL (Knit-along.) It is a Lace knit along, not based around a specific pattern, just based around knitting lace for the summer.

We got started organizing it a little over a month ago, and already we have a pile of sponsors and prizes (Helen has done an awesome job procuring these for us.) We have a Ravelry group and a Blog and I am pretty excited about how it is all coming together. Its called Seasons of Lace – and if you are interested you are welcome to join us!

Even though I am Mod there, I am really quite the lace newbie. I have 2 lace projects on the needles right now. One of them I am doing in my own made up pattern – but I am not very far along on that one. This one is someone else’s pattern and is the one that i am working on primarily.

This is the Strangling Vine Lace Scarf. I got off to a rocky start, there is a bit of a discrepancy between the written pattern, and the chart. But once I worked it all out and put some stitch markers in everything smoothed right out.

I am knitting it in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool – which I love love love! I bought this yarn to be Aibhlinn, but after I started knitting, it really was just about the most boring thing ever – and you needed to pay just enough attention to it that it wasn’t even “mindless” knitting. So Riiiiip! Its been a few thing in between, but now its found its happy match.

this is not the Shifting Sands Scarf

Alyse — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:32:12 +0000

[singlepic=50,320,240,,left] But it should be.

I am sure I am knitting the pattern, but it really doesn’t look like the Lovelyness which i have seen in Grumperina’s scarf gallery. It also has a few structural problems, like needing a needle 2 sizes or so larger. So I have decided its a REALLY large swatch (at this point its about 2x the size it is in the picture.) So I am starting again on larger needles and with 20 fewer stitches than is in the original pattern (10 less than the “swatch”.)

The yarn is my own hand-dyed yarn, the base yarn is *Kn!@ !@#ks* and I actually can’t say enough bleah things about it. Suffice it to say, I won’t be purchasing more, and certainly not as a base yarn for me to dye with. Which is a bit of a shame, because I LOVE the colors though. I cannot get a picture that does justice to the colors in the yarn, the blues go from a midnight blue that is almost black through to beautiful turquoisey sky blue with some lovely stark white highlights.

I have been looking for some patterns that really do a nice job of showing off my style of hand-dyeing. Just enough shape/texture/pattern to really make the color ways stand out, without burying the colors or the patten.

I am working on a pair of mittens that are plain stockinette, and the yarn is blending to a beautiful mottled heathery color texture.

Coming soon: actual decent pictures – I am getting a camera on loan. YAY!!!