Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Lace

My Emily shawl blocking.

A blend of merino and silk yarn, kind of shiny.



Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The First Elephant


The garter stitch elephant, a free Ravelry download. Pretty cute. I have another one in the works in green.


They're for a friend to give to a new baby. The sex is unknown and the nursery theme is Noah's Ark, so I went green and yellow with the elephants.



Thursday, April 1, 2010

Peanut!

Two skeins of Peanut, ready to be knit up into something awesome.

A close up shot of peanut.


Peanut ended up becoming about 100 yards of three ply yarn. I had one thicker single and one skinnier single. I plied the skinnier single back onto itself, but it was all overspun and coiled because I hadn't put enough twist in when I was plying. The thicker single was also coiling up on itself. So I plied the two ply with the single, and voila, it all ended up a pretty calm balanced three ply. Not exactly what I had planned, but it should work out just fine.