Our guild was very lucky to have Nancy Bush as our guest lecturer this month. I only wish I could have taken off work in order to attend the classes she was teaching while she was in the area. The main topic, in keeping with her latest book, was knitted lace of Estonia. She has beautiful photos of Estonia as part of her presentation - makes one want to run out and buy a plane ticket immediately.
Knitting
Another Noro scarf is done - with the exception of weaving in the ends...
and, unfortunately, there are many of them.
(Click to enlarge and check out the bottom of the photo.)
I've got to find similar yarn that is not Noro for more of these scarves. It is extremely frustrating to pay that much per skein and have knots in them. It is now my experience that if the skein does not have a knot/knots in it, it's by sheer luck - rather like winning the knitters' lottery.
Work on Girasole continues - I am up to chart F, after which is Chart G and then the border. Right now, it looks like a beret for a giant and, as you can imagine, it is difficult to take a decent photo.
A row feels like it takes forever - which could be attributed to the fact that there are 640 stitches on the needles. After not knitting much for the past week, I got quite a bit done last night while watching Enchanted April and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - such wonderful films. It's getting heavy to hold at this point, but I'm still enjoying it. We'll see if my enjoyment of this project continues through the end. What I'm not looking forward to is the blocking of it. Any suggestions on how to handle such a large piece of knitting when blocking?
Warm Ewe Up Swap
I received my first package this past week from my swap partner. Thanks, partner!
5 comments:
there's a movie about a tree grows in brooklyn?! I must check that out... i randomly came across the book in the library book sale, and just fell in love with the worn characteristics of the book that i had to read it. I also ended up liking the book quite a lot too...
Love the photos of your Noro striped scarf. I have one in progress too -- and in similar colors, it looks like. Aren't they fun ?
I used Paintbox from K1C2 for my striped scarf (2 balls of each colorway). I don't think there were any knots, though I did splice to cut out a dark section of one colorway. Hope you find an alternative yarn you like.
Mary
Wow - seeing Nancy Bush in person - I'm trying very hard not to be envious!
Poems by Wisdom yarns works up beautifully and is significantly less expensive than the Noro-- I made one of the scarves out of that- plus it is a very lofty yarn- thickish and soft.
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