Last night, while unable to nod off, I decided to cast-on the recent pattern by The Purl Bee, called The Lovely Leaf Lace Scarf, which is absolutely gush worthy I knew I immediately had to make it up for my Mum as a Christmas gift.
While I used a more reddish colorway than the example at [...]
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December 3, 2008
Elaine Harper should have worn this one in Arsenic and Lace…don’t you think?
December 2, 2008
I feel a little bit bored…will someone take me to the pub?
…”Only if you wear this beautiful neck gift…”
Over the holiday break, I took a wee bit of a hiatus from the sock and baby knitting to quickly whip out yet another scarf for gifties. And what I wanted, I got.
Using an “ebony” colorway (which is really just a deep gray bulky yarn with hues of [...]
November 19, 2008
Full-Coverage Cowl….you’ll “cowl” into a corner if you can’t own one of these.
Can I please, please, please gush on how absolutely beyond satisfied I am of this extra chunky cowl I recently designed and knitted up?
Not only is the brilliant yellow-green color phenomenal in person, it is so g.d. warm. I’ve warn it a couple of times since I completed it last week, and I have to [...]
October 23, 2008
Cowling under the pressure of cold? Perhaps!
As I mentioned last week, I’ve gone on a serious cowl knitting bender. It’s turned into an addiction and a new area in which I can flex my knitwear design muscle.
But, in order to kick it off, I went back to the Life is Uneven Cowl and knitted another up in “Lemongrass” this time, which [...]






