Posted in Knitting on Jun 26th, 2006
Icarus is all done now. I love this shawl. It was cool today so I wore it around the house and it was perfect.
Details:
Pattern: Icarus Shawl Summer ‘06 Intweave Knits
Yarn: KnitPicks Alpaca Cloud in Smoke (approx. 2 skiens)
Needles: US3 Addi Turbos
Hopefully, I’ll have another post tomorrow with a new WIP!
If you’ve been wanting a set of Denise Interchangeable Knitting Needles, KnitPicks has them on sale for $25 a set, here. If I had the money I would order a second set. I cannot say how much I love these needles. I don’t think they’ll last long at that price, so if you’re going to [...]
Posted in Knitting on Jun 23rd, 2006
I finished binding off Icarus last night and decided to go ahead and block it today instead of waiting until Monday. The bottom picture is how much yarn I had left. I came really close to not having enough to finish. In fact, I skipped the last two rows of the last chart, just to [...]
Posted in Friday Random Ten, Photography on Jun 23rd, 2006
This is what the storm clouds looked like earlier. I took this at about 1:00PM.
1. Horse Head Fiddle- 16 Horsepower
2. Sabotage- Beastie Boys
3. Chord of Souls- Fields of the Nephilim
4. Across the Universe- Fiona Apple
5. With a Wonder and a Wild Desire- Flogging Molly
6. Galang- M.I.A.
7. Dig Your Grave- Modest Mouse
8. Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
9. [...]
Posted in Knitting on Jun 22nd, 2006
But no pictures. It is dark and storming outside and all the pictures I tried to take just came out blurry. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Still working on Icarus. I have one and a half rows left and, hopefully, enough yarn to finish with. I’m getting very close to running out.
That’s really it, nothing too exicting, [...]
