On Monday I went to the Ottawa Knitting Guild again. It’s always nice to get to see people and chat and knit.
Kelly of Just Knitting had brought a surprise for me. She is working her way through Shaping Shawls and has finished both Tidal Waves and the Chandelier Shawl.
Her Tidal Waves is knit in Sea Silk from Handmaiden in a gorgeous light green colour (which I didn’t quite manage to capture in the poor light).
And the Chandelier Shawl is knit in Zen Yarn Garden, most likely Serenity Silk. The colour is really one of my favourites. I love deep dark reds.
I’m waiting for some yarn to arrive later this week from indigodragonfly. Of course there’s deep red, but it’s also paired with a new shade of yellow bronze. Can’t wait to see how they work together.
The latest issue of Knitcircus is out, and it has one of my patterns in it.
Riffle - photo courtesy of Knitcircus
Riffle is the part of a stream where the flow is shallower and more turbulent. This riffle moves rapidly towards the centre in swirls, and narrows on the back of the hand.
Riffle
The Riffle gloves can be worked as fingerless mittens or full fingered gloves. They are worked from the cuff up, and feature a fitted thumb gusset and twisted Bavarian cables.
Riffle - photo courtesy of Knitcircus
The first 1.5 inch of the cuff is worked flat, and is then joined in the round to create a 1.5” slit on the pinkie side of the cuff.
The cable pattern is worked on both sides of the cuff until the start of the thumb gusset, at which point the palm side of the hand changes to straight stockinette. At the end of the gusset, the thumb stitches are put on a holder and then the rest of the hand is worked in the round, and the fingers are worked individually. The thumb is worked last.
Riffle - thumb gusset
The cable pattern on the back of the hand continues until past the start of the thumb, and then the swirls become half the size for two swirls, and end in a point. As the cable pattern ends, the background becomes stockinette. The palm of the hand is stockinette, for comfort.
Riffle - palm
The pattern is available right now as part of the Winter 2011-2012 Collection.
One of my new yarn finds this year is indigodragonfly. I first managed to get my hands on some of her yarn back at the KW Knitters’ Fair in September, and I absolutely love it. Kim has graciously supplied me with some yarn for my upcoming book. In fact, my very next lace project will be in this gorgeous Merino Silk 4 ply Sock. The colourway? Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
I’m looking forward to casting on, but weekends don’t seem to be a good time for me to do so. It’s hard to start new projects in the hockey arenas, but they are perfect spots to work on existing ones.
Anyhow, this is not the only yarn Kim provided for the upcoming book. Some can be seen in yesterday’s teaser shot. AND, Kim has a contest going on RIGHT NOW. The gist of it is that if you can tell her which of these four pieces is knit with indigodragonfly yarn, name the base(s) and the colour way and guess how many skeins she gave me to design with, you can win fabulous things – a copy of Shaping Shawls, a subscription to my new mystery KAL, and some indigodragonfly yarn. So head over to her site and enter the contest.
Best of luck!!
I’ve been working hard on my second book. It’s due to be published sometime next summer with Cooperative Press. It contains a lovely collection of lace, and I’m now able to share a little teaser shot. There are more patterns in the works, and hopefully more pictures between now and when the book is published.
But yay! for a new book, and more work with the Cooperative Press team.
When I was at TNNA in June, I had the chance to meet the lovely ladies of Anzula. They had a lot of very bright, colourful yarn and I really fell for their Milky Way base. It’s a light fingering weight yarn (500 yds/100 g) made out of 80% milk protein and 20% super wash merino. When I saw it, I immediately started planning a double-knit shawl. There were many colours to choose from, but I eventually settled on Elephant and Cornflower.
Right now I’m just playing, and not knitting the real thing yet, but I like it.
Since it’s double-knit, it’s pretty on both sides, and the colours are inverted.
My double knitting has been languishing recently, since I’ve been so busy with lace and fingerless mittens, but it’s really nice to get back to it. I expect lots of progress on this in the next little while.
Last week, I participated in the Lanark County Knitter’s Guild Knitter’s Marketplace (whew, what a mouthful). It took place at a golf club, and there were 10 vendors there displaying our wares. I had a table to show all the shawls from the book, and of course the Shaping Shawls book itself.
In addition, I also brought the Chandoba pattern. I simply must get some better pictures of that shawl, since the pattern sells much better at events than online.
Anyhow, it was a most pleasant evening. Other vendors included Natalie Servant
and Kelly from Just Knitting
….and several others, but those may have been all the pictures I took.
It was a lovely evening and I had a chance to chat with a fair number of people. And I even made some progress on one of my new shawls.
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