Wedding Veil

The wedding veil that I made for my daughter-in-law. I used 20/2 Tencel thread with 2.5 mm needles. I made it in Shetland Shawl style, I did the centre square, then picked up the stitches all around and did the borders, corners and the edging. It took me about 4 months to finish it.

Stand by Me

I love this video! This is from the Playing for Change website

A World Without Water

Found this excellent video today!



It's snowing out here today!

Seabreeze Sweater

I’ve finally finished my Seabreeze Sweater and taken photos!! It’s a bit warm to wear just yet but I’m really pleased with the way it turned out. It’s a little more close fitting than I’m used to but very comfortable. I’ve been wearing shapeless boxy tops for too long I think.









The yarn is soooo nice to work with. I used Apple Laine's Apple Pie yarn.

With a 2mm circular needle, I cast on 240 sts, joined and placed markers at the raglan increase points. 80 / 3 / 34 / 3 / 80 / 3 / 34 / 3

Knit in 2 x 2 ribbing, increasing 8 sts. every 2nd round, until armhole depth is reached (10” in my case).

Then divide for body and sleeves. Body = 328 sts. Sleeves = 130 sts.

I'll see if I can decipher the rest of my notes later.

Ambitus neckwarmer

This post was from February 9, 2008, and didn't get posted either, so here we go!

This week I finished up my Ambitus neckwarmer and wore it for the first time yesterday, a -27C north wind kinda day. I was nice and warm!



I used Apple Laine's Apple Pie yarn double-stranded for this pattern with 3.75mm and 4.5mm needles. The colourway is called "Arizona". I purchased the yarn from Darlene at Northern Sunshine Designs.

Right now, I'm working on socks for myself out of the Apple Pie yarn in "Sea Breeze". After these are finished, I'm going to make a sweater for myself out of the "Sea Breeze" colourway. I'm designing it in my head right now. I'm thinking top down raglan with 3x2 ribbing. I'll post details as I get them figured out.

Happy Spring / Tire Tread Hearts

This post is from February 7, 2008, and for some reason it didn't get posted, so I thought I would post it now! Better late than never, I guess.

I looked out of my studio window this morning(Feb. 7) and this is what I saw in the parking lot! I managed to get the photo just before someone drove over it.

Odds n' Ends Socks Finale and Meet up with Rosemarie

Wow! It's been awhile. I did finish the Odds n' Ends Socks and have enjoyed wearing them this winter.








Here I am wearing them on the Harbour Walk in Nanaimo, BC. I spent the weekend of March 7 - 10, 2008, at the Spring Meeting for the Board of the Assembly of BC Arts Councils. Such a nice city and we had great weather for the weekend too.







On Monday, it was a bit rainy, but I got to meet up with Rosemarie and check out the local LYS, Mad About Ewe (ravelry link). Rosemarie and I hadn't met in person before but have been online friends through the Laceknitters list for a few years now. It was so much fun to finally meet in person! I hope we get to do it again soon.






While we were at the yarn store, I picked out a seashell button to put on my Malabrigo Hat.





The button didn't look quite right all by itself so I put it in the centre of a little knitted flower. Much better!


Talk to you soon,
Cyndi in BC