Blog entries - February 2007

The Easy Mesh Lace Triangle

Shelley — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:50:32 +0100

Pattern: Easy Mesh Lace Triangle from Fiddlesticks Knitting
Yarn: 1 skein Fiddlesticks Knitting Country Silk Yarn (aprox. 800m/250g) I’m not sure what the colourway was called - autumn or harvest or something like that.
Needles: 3.75 mm bamboo circular(32”)
Modifications: None

I knew I was getting close to the end of this early in February w...

Insta-stash!

Shelley — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:09:08 +0100

This is my vacation shopping yarn stash! I went down to Edmonton with a bunch of patterns and some vague ideas for colours and walked into River City Yarns , which had been particularly recommended to me by somefriends. The ladies at the shop were very nice and helped me find appropriate yarns for all my projects. I had three of the skeins I bought wound into balls at the shop ...

Back from Vacation

Shelley — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:51:04 +0100

It’s always a tough decision choosing a flight to leave on. Evening flights mean hectic packing; morning flights mean early rising. We decided it would be nice to have most of the day after we finished traveling so we went for the morning flight. Another bonus was visible as we took off - sunrise is never so spectacular on the ground as it is from 30, 000 feet.
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A Tiny View

Shelley — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:59:04 +0100

I have a new photo gallery up. It is an idea I’ve been playing with in my head for a while - inspired by the photos I took to show the new ribbons and thread I got last week - but it took some creative thinking before I was able to create a set-up that would let me takethe right kind of pictures.

Several times recently I have seen pictures of ordinary objects shown at many tim...

My Mixy Mitts

Shelley — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:55:46 +0100

Pattern: My Own (see below)
Yarn: SULI FIBRES Pink Mixy. Wool, mohair, silk and sparkle. Bobble plied, thick and thin.
Needles: 4.5 mm bamboo DPNs
Modifications: None

I actually made these up last weekend but didn’t get around

to photographing them until today. They were a lot of fun to make up. They go pretty quickly and you can try them on as yo...