Shawls and Scarves with between 400 and 600 yards
The countdown to War Eagle Fair has begun and we’ve been bustling to get everything ready for one of our biggest shows of the year. If you’ve not visited War Eagle Fair in Hindsville, Arkansas, you’ve missed out. There are both crafts of the crafty type and true craftsmen of high caliber at this show.…
I’ve spent the past few days knitting on an old WIP, the Cloisters Wrap. It’s coming along very quickly and I’m feeling a little guilt over the fact that it was the first lace project I cast on in 2011 and it’s now October and still unfinished. Only four repeats of the next to the…
The ancient Celts believed that washing one’s face on the first day of May with the morning dew would enhance a woman’s beauty and health. This simple leaf pattern incorporates silver-lined size 8 seed beads which, if the sun hits them right, glisten like dew drops on fresh spring leaves. People have asked me several…
When I finished the Maaema Scarf I made this deal with myself to finish one other WIP before casting on a new project. Usually I’m pretty good at this little game. Not this time though, before long I found myself pulling on a pair of crazy pants. First I worked diligently on my Nonpariel Sweater.…
If you’ve not entered the FB End of Year Giveaway today is your last opportunity. Click on the FB badge on the sidebar, become a friend of LostCity Knits and you might win a skein of lace weight merino yarn, a sachet, and some lavender shea butter! The next contest will be held here on…
Anjou Scarf There is an obscene amount of knit preparation (piddling) going on in advance of our vacation. No I didn’t cast on three new lace projects to take with me. I cast on one, well two – but I already frogged one so it doesn’t count. That other baggie is purely a protective measure.…
After the joy of finishing my Icarus shawl that had been languishing for nearly a year I gave myself a little talking to about getting a few WIP’s off the needles. I wanted to feel that triumphant joy again and Brandywine was an easy choice on which to focus. Good news is that I’ve finished…
Although I bound this shawl off on August first we’ve just this morning taken a few photos for show and tell. Pattern: Emily Dickinson Shawl by Keiran Foley Yarn: Lost City Silk in colorway Portland Beads: Copper-lined clear size 6 from Bead Merchant in Tulsa, OK In one of her letters to Thomas Higginson, Emily…
Summer in Oklahoma can be brutal. The heat and the humidity are taking the toll on many of our farmer friends. While our field has already been harvested, Chris is working each morning (while the temps are slightly lower) to maintain or reclaim parts of the field, in the afternoon he’s been tackling paperwork or…
I thought since the Emily Dickinson shawl is garter stitch that it’d be a good time to learn to knit Continental. The fastest knitters are usually knitting Continental style. Like Mariam Tegels, she’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. I’m a Thrower, not a Picker – which is what Continental knitters are called.…
