Mohana

This is "Mohana". Monika (www.yarnloopie.blogspot.com) designed this one and had me testknit it for her. It's really great to knit and the mediumweight Fingering Sock yarn from Maggie (www.dyedinthewoolhandmade.com) made this one fast to knit. I used my size 5 (3.75mm) KP options needles for this one and blocked and all finished it measures a good 40 x80 inches. Big enough to snuggle in. The color is called Winter Violet and just down my alley.

The pattern, once Monika releases it, can be found on her blog or over at Ravelry. Just punch in "Mohana" or "yarnloopie" and you'll find it for sure.

Garden Party Shawl WIP

Here is a quick picture of the test knit I'm still working on for Laura over at fiberdreams.com. Just so everybody can see how far I've gotten on it and what it's going to look like. Of course her pink version is the bomb, but my gold one is not so shabby either. It just doesn't seem to be that big, but this picture is just a quick pin on the bed and not the fully stretched out end product. After 3/4 of the border I finally have the pattern memorized. Well it's about time, I think. I hope to get this done before the new yarn for my next KP project arrives, which should be here by this weekend.

Flechtmuster Tuch/Braided Shawl

Here is the finished braided shawl I knitted with a german KAL. The pattern was available in the Anna magazine 9/2007 and was thanks to the KAL hard to get, especially here in the states. It's so good to have connections :). Kick off for the KAL was the 15th of this month, but since the pattern was here, the yarn was looking at me and waiting for me to cast on I cheated and started on the oh so boring garter stitch part two days early. So it took me pretty much about 7 days to finish the whole shawl. Wow, now that I think about it, not bad at all. And it's so totally wearable for those cooler fall evenings. This might just be one of my favorite shawls to wear.

For more pictures of the different stages of the shawl you can visit my blog.

Kimono Shawl finally done

May I present my Kimono Shawl? It's finally, finally done. It took long enough, I know. Don't ask me exactly when I started it, but I blogged with this one in the Lacevember KAL. I was on a family trip that took a good five hours one way, which gave me enough time to work on this an finally get around finishing up those pesky five last repeats. I was close to giving up and making this shawl shorter than intended, but I stuck with it. So here it is, the Kimono Shawl from Cheryl Oberle's book Folk Shawls. It's made from recycled red Cashmere bought off of ebay and after blocking it I'm happy to say that all the kinks from unraveling it disappeared.

Rona Lace Update

For everyone that has been missing me (yeah right) I just wanted to let you know that I finally followed the wave and moved over to the new blogger. This was the reason why I didn't post on this blog for a while. Now I'm back.

I didn't want to bore you with pictures of an unfinished project, but to follow my progress you can check out my blog. Right now I'm on row 121 of 153 and my shawl doesn't look so impressive at all. I have people asking me, if I'm knitting a bag! No, it's a round shawl and won't they all be surprised when it emerges in all it's beauty. Hopefully that won't take that much longer and I can post a picture of the finished shawl. Bare with me and keep checking in with me. I'm knitting as fast as I can.