Knitting Report – October 13, 2017

Ahh . . Friday, the 13th. Anyone superstitious? Just to be safe, I think I’ll spend the day knitting . . probably on Apparition by Boo Knits! 🙂

Patterns Added:

• Morning Star Lace Shawl – Another Anna Victoria pattern. I’m truly losing sleep over these patterns.
• To the Heart of the Mountain – Another . . dare I say . . Anna Victoria pattern.
• Fugue in Mosaic Minor – I love the lacy border. I can see this being done in school colors . . unless your school colors are orange and black like mine were.

Yarn Added:

Not a lot of yarn arrived. I’m feeling like I have a good selection of silk yarns or silk blends so I can happily knit away on the lacy shawls I’ve fallen in love with.

These yarns, all lace weight, left to right: 

The three on the left are all from Solstice Yarns.

• Far left: Leah, 50% silk/50% cotton. 875 yards per skein. The color is Starship
• Second from left: Sea Angel Lace, 70% silk/30% seacell. Also 875 yards per skein. The color is One Love.
• Third from the left: Banshee Lace, is 100% tussah silk. It’s 765 yards per skein. The color is Falling Gently.

The four yarns on the right are all Dye for Yarn, 100% tussah silk, 760 yards per skein.

• Left to right (beginning with the fourth one from the left):  
  • Too Much Caramel Cake 
  • Chocolate Cosmos Ceasing To Be
  • Bleached Dead Rosewood
  • Army of the Dead

Going down this new road . . the lace and beads road . . it’s kinda like completely starting a new hobby. I needed lace weight yarn. I needed beads. I needed tools to attach the beads. I needed a new iPad but you can’t really blame that one the lace knitting.

Speaking of the iPad . . my old eyes are thanking Vince for getting the big one instead of the mini. It is much brighter and clear. I guess everything gets better with each new model, along with the added screen size . . the vision part makes it worth putting up with the bigger size . . I guess. The bigger one does not sit on the arm of my chair like the mini does. There’s good and bad but in the end . . I have it and hopefully it will last me a lot of years.

Projects I Worked On:

There and Back is finished! It is still sitting on the dress form in the living room and I keep admiring it. I love it so much.

I started Shieldmaiden, also by Anna Victoria. I struggled with a bead color, and that’s something I may always struggle with. I don’t mean struggling as in losing sleep but I love picking out beads. There are so many that are perfect and it’s fun watching the beads bring life to the shawl.

For this one, I wanted the beads not to stand out so much but just to add some sparkle and I think that’s what I’m getting. I truly cannot stop knitting on these patterns.

One last shawl . . I’m trying to stay caught up on Boo Knit’s Apparition Mystery KAL. You know I’m terrible about staying up to date. I’m about halfway through Clue #3. I should be able to finish it before lunch today. Clue #4 should have come out this morning. I haven’t even checked. The 5th and final clue will be out Monday so this should be fairly quick to finish up but . . it calls for over 800 beads and so far, I’ve only used less than a dozen beads so I have a heck of a lot of beads left to add.

Please don’t judge it by the photo! The yarn is actually a very pretty shade of light pink . . not the salmon color it appears in my late night photo.

Knitting Plans for this Week:

1. The yarn will arrive today for the second test knit I committed to doing so I need to put everything else aside and get that done.
2. I want to get one more hat made for my aunt and get several hats and some fingerless mitts sent off to her.
3. Any extra knitting time this week will be spent knitting on either Apparition or Shieldmaiden.