No Blogging ≠ No Knitting

I’ve been a very neglectful blogger. I’m not really sure what happened and can’t believe it’s been so long since I last posted. I have however been very busy knitting, designing and learning to weave. Since I last posted, I’ve started and frogged several projects. I’ve completed a sweater that I designed myself. At first I wasn’t sure if I’d blog about it because I was seriously considering submitting it to Knitty. However, the way that I did the yoke made it very difficult to grade the pattern to different sizes. I’m also really terrible at writing patterns. Anyway, I’ll write a separate post about the sweater.




I’ve also been knitting socks. Not pairs, just single socks so I can play around with construction methods and stitch patterns.

What about lace? This blog is called The Lace Maven, after all. Well I haven’t been in the mood for anything very complicated, so there has been no addition progress on The Wedding Ring shawl. After completing three of the four borders on the Spider Queen, it has also stalled. I just don’t feel like working on it right now. On the upside, Balmoral Thistle is off the needles. I don’t know what possessed me to do a knitted on edging. It just took forever to finish the 288 edging repeats. I’m really happy with the results. I just have to find some time to block it.

Thanks everyone for commenting on my scarf pattern and wishing me well for my first ever knitting class. The lace class went very well. I had students who were eager and enthusiastic and that is always a wonderful thing. They have three weeks to work on their scarf and then we have the second part of the class. There was just too much information to cover in one 2 hour session. I’ve always respected and admired teachers but now I have even more respect for them. It is not as easy as it looks.

I've created a PDF file of the scarf pattern, but I haven't figured out how to make it available here. So if anyone would like the pattern just email me.

That’s it for now. There is so much to blog about that I don’t think I’ll go this long between posts, again.

Happy knitting!