lace

Drop the needles … summer is here!

Yes, I know I’m about 4 or 5 days early, but can you really blame me? It’s been so long sine we’ve had a couple weeks of consistent weather that I have to believe that summer will arrive as planned on June 20/21. Just in time for summer as well is a post from Knitfinder on Facebook about a beautiful summer top that they found in a store. It just so happens that in one of the knitting groups I go to we have been talking about reverse engineering a pattern for a few weeks now. I don’t believe […]

For the love of silk …

Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting Marie Wustner, a recent transplant to Vancouver, BC. Marie has come here from Buffalo, NY, and as unfortunate as they are to lose her, we are fortunate. You see, Marie runs Bali Silks, and importer and distributor of fine natural silks from Bali. She has a website – BALI SILKS – and you’ll find all the information you need there, but I can’t help putting up a post about the wonderful things she’s doing here (and there) now. Marie, along with her business partner Komang Suweni, believe that it is […]

Tuesday’s Tips …

Yikes, I almost missed this post. With yesterday being Thanksgiving here in Canada, today felt like a Monday rather than a Tuesday. So I guess the first tip for this week is to check your calendar when you wake up – especially the day after a holiday! At least, I should … So then, here are the tips for this week. And keeping with Thanksgiving, I have gotten each tip from someone else and am now giving acknowledgment and thanks to them and for their tip (even if they didn’t know ). Twist and Tie – I consider the […]

Check-in – Lace KAL, Angel, and what’s next …

Hi everybody, This post is just as the title says – a check in on what’s on the needles (mine and yours), and what’s coming up. First things first though, you have until this Sunday to purchase a copy of Angel if you want to have a chance of winning it for free. I still haven’t decided on the exact contest yet, but the winners will have their purchase price of Angel refunded in full. That means you will have gotten the pattern for free. Not a bad deal, huh? So anyone who has gotten a copy of Angel […]

Pick your poison …

Well, it’s time to see what you have learned with the lace. I have a good idea what Antoinette has learned because she has sent in some pictures of her lace swatches, but the rest of you haven’t. So I am hoping that at this point you are able to do the following with regards to lace; Cast on using two  or three different methods (loosely) and also using the Provisional Cast on Deftly execute the YO for those wonderful holes we will be strategically placing in our work Increase and decrease to the right and left one or […]