| Besides being the day to celebrate Thanksgiving, I have a completed project to share with you today! Yesterday was photography session and I snuck in some shots of the narrow scarf version of Elemental Changes Shetland Stole, the HeartStrings pattern that will be released in a couple of weeks. |
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This is the knitting I brought along to work on during my travel-time to and from Sophie’s Fall Knitting Retreat where I taught this past weekend. We were at Clifty Falls State Park just across the Kentucky state line in Indiana. Wonderful knitters, accommodations and hospitality all around made for delightful classes and even some knitting down-time for myself in the evenings.
The knitting went quickly on this small scarf, probably because I had not taken my computer along and thus did not have that distraction, lol. As those who saw the knitting-in-progress can likely attest, it didn’t look like much at the time before blocking. It still absolutely fascinates me to block lace and see the finished product so beautifully transformed.
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For those of you in the USA, have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Whatever makes up your holiday, I hope it is a grand day for you and yours. For those who have loved ones far away, I send hopes that you are reunited soon. For those who will be traveling during the holiday, I wish you safe journeys. For those who are cooking, I wish you enthusiastic clean-up crews. To those who are on clean-up detail, I wish you good luck in fitting all the leftovers into the fridge.
In keeping with the theme of “Taking Time to Smell the Roses”, my idea these days of Thanksgiving is to let someone else do the cooking. So my man-friend John and I will be heading down to the Thanksgiving buffet at Hotel Intercontinental. Bon Appetit!
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| I just wanted to let you know about a pattern of mine that is included in the recently published book Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders: 101 Small Indulgences. The pattern is Qiviut Neck Muff, pictured on page 21 and instructions on page 124. I hope you will look it up if you happen to have already gotten this book or will be getting it. |
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There is just the one photograph in the book, so I thought you’d enjoy some other ideas of wearing this versatile accessory. The pattern stitch is pleasingly reversible, so wearing to either side gives a slightly different look, too.
I’d like to caution though the book’s editor says the collection of patterns is organized by weight of yarn, it really is organized by gauge. As you know, when knitting lace, light weight yarns (especially those like qiviut with so much loft and warmth) are often worked on larger needles to a more open gauge than typical sweater fabric. That put the Qiviut Neck Muff in the “Fine Weight’ category according to this book, even though it would normally be categorized as Super-Fine Weight.
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There are 100 other patterns in this book, all needing no more than one skein of the stated yarn to be made up (of course, some of those skeins have a lot of yardage, such as the project for a sleeveless vest).The assortment of projects is quite nice, but if substituting yarns you will still have to guess at actual amount of yarn needed since only the standard put-up of the stated yarn’s ball/skein is given. |
p.s. The Qiviut Neck Muff didn’t even take the entire of ball! If you’d like to know the actual amount needed, let me know and I will look it up in my design notes.
Worn in the style of a loose cowl. |
Worn in the style of a turtleneck. |
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I guess for those of us who are unfortunate enough to live in areas ruled by Daylight Savings Time, we should be glad that we have gained back that hour in our lives that we lost last spring. Or did we? I am not so gullible as to fall for that, tongue in cheek. Just think of all that time wasted last spring changing clocks, and then again today! Darn it, there are so many clocks to change that I must have given back that hour and then some, lol.
| Remember the Halloween recipe I wrote about briefly last month? I wanted to let you know that my recipe for Jackie-O-Lantern Open Wrap Pizza is now posted at TheArmChairChef.com. Woops, I had to try a slice just to be sure. Hurry over before I eat it all up! |
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p.s. Since Halloween is now passed, you wouldn’t need to decorate the pizza with the extra “carved facial features” – it would still be a neat treat decorated just as a pumpkin. Enjoy.
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Behind the scenes with Jackie E-S and life at the HeartStrings FiberArts studio.
