by Helene | Jun 22, 2008 | In Stitches Knitting Blog, Knitting, watergarden shrug
After a few starts and stops, a rip here and there, a challenge or two… I finished my shrug! Even with all the small issues, this was so much fun to make. There was a certain freedom in this project – choosing which yarn to use when and what stitch to use with...
by Helene | Jun 12, 2008 | In Stitches Knitting Blog, Knitting, Shrug
So I’m having a great time with my shrug – mixing fibers – feels like free form knitting. This is knit in all one piece cuff to cuff. As I get closer to finishing the “back” I’m just having that feeling that something isnt making sense. Its beautiful but...
by Helene | Jun 2, 2008 | In Stitches Knitting Blog, Knitting, Knitting Shops, Yarn
Part of finishing projects is that emptieness I’m left with when I only have one substantial project on the needles – a far cry from when I thought the only way to knit was to do one thing at a time – seriously where’s the fun in that! I found a really...
by Helene | Jun 1, 2008 | Crocheting, In Stitches Knitting Blog, Knitting
Seeing that I’m a fan of the quick hit here and there project wise, I’m always looking for those little projects. I’m a huge fan of the flower washcloth from weekend knitting – I’ve given tons of them as gifts over the years. They’re fun…but.. So I was given a...
by Helene | May 22, 2008 | In Stitches Knitting Blog, Knitting, Shrug
Having finished two projects put me right in the whats next mode – actually I started poking around ravelry as soon as I saw the completion of my projects within close reach. I came across a project that I just had to do – the Water Garden Shrug by Jane...
by Helene | May 20, 2008 | In Stitches Knitting Blog, Uncategorized
Its interesting to me to see how my knitting moods change – some days its all about browsing patterns and yarns that I want to work with, others days its all about finishing what I have on the needles. There’s this point in a project when that need to finish...
