I ordered yarn online for the first time. Always hesitated because I thought I had to feel the yarn first. But then I couldn’t get any lace yarn locally, so I searched online and finally ordered malabrigo lace yarn. For the Laminaria shawl in a green called lettuce and then I couldn’t help but also get some i a colour called cognac.
This yarn is so incredably soft, I could touch it all the time… Even Sweetheart often touches my WIP just to say “ this is SO soft”.
and here it is: the beginning of the
Laminaria shawl. Love to knit it so far.
click on this one to enlarge it and see it in all it's beauty - you can tell I am in love with this yarn and project...
This is the curtain I crocheted with Britanny in my mind. It is made in the style they do it there traditionally with bands of motifs and crochet chains inbetween. I made a band with triskells and one with the "hermine", two symbols common in Britanny. I like how it came out!
This is what happened on Monday and Tuesday this week. The winter wheat is gone... It is seeded in fall and when we moved in in December it was little plants already soaking in all winter's rain water (and that of that one inch of snow we had for a few hours...) and growing on warm sunny days.
I am on the first pattern repeat and having a lot of fun knitting this sweater! Slow progress but back and front done at once- in the round, 320 stitches... 2 mm needles.
Finally I decided to use Regia silk sock yarn for this one. Soft, shiny, thin enough, not too expensive and I even found a colour I really like, a warm dark green.
Best thing to do on a cool and rainy day in July? There's only one answer: