Whew, the holidays have finally settled themselves down and I have a few minutes to blog here.
I did a ton (for me) of knitting for Christmas; four scarfs and two ear bands. Plus an ear band for me after some particularly cold nights at work, with a scarf in progress. They can all be seen in my projects on http://www.ravelry.com/, username RenaissanceKnits. Everyone really liked their stuff, and I'm glad. I also really wish I would have known about the curling of stockinette stitch so that I could have put some proper borders on the scarves, but I suppose it gives me an excuse to make more!
In making the ear bands--the pattern is called Calorimetry--I had my first foray into short rows. I was a bit intimidated at the thought at first but they weren't really a problem at all! I'm really pleased with how they came out with my modifications to incorporate the cable patterns from the scarves.
I'm also making my first forays into lace with a feather and fan scarf I started and a feather and fan shawl that is in the queue. It's a really simple pattern and I love the way it looks. I just need to pay a little bit more attention so I can stop ripping it out back to the lifelines I put in. I might not ever get it done at this rate!
So much yarn is on sale right now that it's really hard not to keep buying more. I had planned on doing the feather and fan shawl with some Simply Soft that I already had in my stash. Then, while I was out today, NaturallyCaron.com Country was on sale for half off today at Michaels. So, of course, I had to buy it and I'm going to use it for the shawl now.
There are so many patterns and techniques I want to try and not enough people to pawn the projects off on!
