Too Much Yarn

Finished Another Shawl!

I haven't taken a photo of this modeled yet, although it has been off the pins for a week now.  This is my new favorite shawl.  Just love the colors.  The pattern is Romi's Carson.

On Saturday, Romi released the second pattern of the 2015 Pins & Laces club. It's called Flowers for Yvonne!  I have never used Laceweight yarn and I think Yvonne is proud of me and smiling from Heaven that I'm knitting this shawl named after her with LACE yarn!  But I'm using size 5 needles, so it's not as bad as it sounds.  It started with casting a gazillion stitches and then, you short-rowed it to a small number and then, you do something, and then, you knit on  the lace border/edging... you'll see when I get there - whenever that is.  I have not taken any photos of my project, but this should be the finished project.. This is a photo from the pattern, Flowers for Yvonne, by Romi (Rosemary Hill).  It may look overwhelming, but the pattern is quite simple - just keep at it.. Romi writes such good patterns.

I'm also using a BLUE yarn -  Yvonne's favorite color (which also happens to be mine). I'm using Wollmeise Lace that I bought in Germany.  I haven't given up on it, even though I've only knitted 10 rows!

Last weekend, I went with my knitting buddies, Pam and Cathy, to the Shepard's Harvest Wool Festival.  I did not do much harm - maybe 3 skeins of yarn?  I haven't taken photos to show you, so I won't count them.. But here are some photos of the festival.

Yep - I bought this worsted MCN to make this shawl.  It looks like something I would wear and looks like a good travel project.

Also like this poncho - but most probably, it's because of the gradient colors and the cabley lace spine. I did not buy the kit, but I may buy the pattern Trade Winds Ponchette. It also looks boring enough that I would not finish.  So, for now, I will just admire it.

I also bought a bunch of these Mohair locks.  I don't think I'll use them for weaving (oh yes, I used to weave and I haven't even shown you my weaving project!!).  But maybe I'll use them for greeting cards.

What else?

Oh, yes, I started a shawlette/scarf... the pattern is Tre O Molti.  But instead of using 3 colors, I'm using my mini skeins from Yarnover - the ModeKnits Yarn mini skeins in the Dragon Dance (Game of Thrones) colors. 

It's a fun and addicting knit.. Would be fun for your leftover sock yarn.  There are 12 sections.. I'm on section 7.  Photo was up to section 6.. Section 7 is in red for Red Wedding, I believe.

So yarnwatchers:  27

Today:  +0

Used up: -2

Total:  25

 

New Shawl, New Yarn

When you don't post as often as you used to, there seems to be so much to tell you!  Well, it's been more than 5 weeks since we started on the Romi Mystery Shawl.  It's all done!  And here's the finished shawl!

 

And you know me... I have to tell you when I make a mistake - on the very last row.  For some reason, I just wanted to finish the shawl - I had one last row on Sunday morning, and I just screwed up.  So, it ends up that my bindoff was not loose enough to be able to block points from.  Oh well, I'm not the biggest fan of points anyway.

I also finished another sock in the past month:

Its mate will need to wait until August!!

Two weekends ago was Yarnover (an opportunity to acquire yarn!!) and this was my haul:

I think I'm only counting this as 1 skein - it's enough to make a small shawl.  From Grinning Gargoyles:

I'm into mini's... I'll count 2 skeins from this pack:

I'm thinking of knitting Tre O Molti from this kit.

And then, at StevenBe's booth, I scored on 2 sets of mini's in Three Irish Girls' Adorn:

No plans on what to knit with this yet...  At Sun Valley, I picked up 3 skeins - two MCS (Merino Cashmere Silk)

and a new sock yarn base:

And then, I finally found this

to match the skein I bought at the Shop Hop:

I saw a pattern I think would work great with this shawl - Secret of Change. What do you think?  Knitting the first one (lighter color) until I run out of yarn and just continue on with the second skein?

So yarnwatchers:  19

Today:  +10

Used up: -2

Total:  27

I just noticed there are some more yarn I haven't shown you on Flickr yet.  Looks like  Yarnwatchers is going the same way as Weightwatchers where I just joined!