Posted on 02/29/2008 by Andrea
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On the menu today is a salad made from delicious Noro Silk Garden, with raspberry and plum and tomato orange with a side of deep dark pumpernickel, all resting on a bed of healthy dark greens.
Noro Silk Garden, how I just want to eat you right up. This was an impulse buy, I must admit. It's the first time I've given in to the temptation of Noro Silk Garden and it's because I just couldn't resist this colorway. I'm not sure what to make with it: a scarf, a hat?
The green stuff is my Stow Away Bag, in progress. I'm just starting on the handles, which means I'll be done well in time for the Double Ewe String Bag Sale. I was originally making the Saturday Market Bag from MagKnits, but I didn't like how it was turning out. I can't entirely blame that pattern because I do think I made a couple of ill-advised modifications. But I liked how Mom's Stow Away Bag was turning out and decided I wanted to make one too.
It's Leap Day, it's Friday, it's the last day of the dreaded February. The sun is sort of shining and the snow is sort of melting. There are fresh tulips on my desk. Life isn't bad. Hope you're having a good Friday too.
Posted on 02/27/2008 by Barb
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Ravelry’s Stash Knit Down 2008 Group issued a January Challenge to knit a mile, which I did (yea for me). The total for the group was reported by the group’s moderators, Angela and Karin, to be a whopping 66.21 miles!
I haven’t accomplished tons since The Challenge, but I did finish my Stow-Away Bag (pictured below) so I’m all ready to yarn shop at Double Ewe.
I also have a tear-out in my future. The project is a vintage Christmas stocking I’m trying to recreate. I think I've mentioned it before. It’s coming along but I have a mistake a few rows back and since I should really be using a smaller needle, I’ve decided to rip it out and start over. Sigh. I have the motif all figured out, which is probably the toughest part … or at least the most tedious. So now it’s just a matter of knitting it up. It's been hard to get into it since it's months and months away from Christmas. But I do have to return the stocking to its owner soon so I have to keep on it. More on this when I have something to show, and have had a chance to take some pictures.
