Tall Gal Knits and Spins

A little bit of spring green early

Winter in New England....not my favorite time of year as anyone who knows me will agree.  Winters usually look something like this...

 
and the roads look like this

Some people find this a grand time of year...full of skiing and cold adventures up north.

I personally find this a time of year to hunker down with all that lovely wool, alpaca, silk and blends there of that I own and knit..under a blanket preferably.  This winter has been gray early and often, there's about 18" of hard pack snow on the ground, a sheet of ice under my car.  So what does the knitter do when she needs a bit of spring in her life sooner than mid March??

She starts a new lace shawl...

In spring green...Classic Elie's Silky Alpaca lace!  This is one of the nicest lace Alpaca/silk blends I've felt.  I am in love with this yarn and in fact I am considering getting more...even though I have enough lace to last two lifetimes...it is soft, warm, pliable and will drape beautifully will blocked out, I'm positive.

 This is Anne Hanson's Bee Fields Shawl.  I love Anne's work and blog..I've had several of her patterns queued up in my Ravelry Q for a while.  I looked at my 4 skeins of the lace and just decided that it wanted to be this pattern.

I'm particularly loving the fact that the edging is done at the same time...saves time in the long run. 

I'm almost most finished with the first pattern motif..I'm not working on this as fast as I could, there are 6 more weeks before the clocks turn back and another 8 until the equinox...this shawl will be my "Spring" until mid march...when hopefully little sprouts of green blossoms will start to appear..

Spring semester starts tonite...3 nights a week, 7:30 to 9:30 class each night..ugh. 

Think Spring...

New Year, New Hope, New Beginnings for all of us

For everyone...yesterday marked a new era for those of us who are in the US.  I am cautiously optimistic that our new president will make things better, with time, as long as we give him the opportunity.

Since I last posted...yes that was an extremely long gap, many things have occurred around here as well.  The semester from hell is finished, for which I am eternally grateful.  I am on a new beginning as well, both for school and personally. 

I did not get much knitting done, but here's a short parade of what I did manage to get done, most of which in December during the holiday break.  If you are on Ravelry you can see more pics here.

A long over due scarf...started back when it was warm...the Manitou Scarf, a lovely reversible cable scarf.

I did this in some stash yarn!  Foxfibre's Cormo Silk blend.  I still have 1-1/2 skeins left of this lovely yarn.  I'm sitting on it for now.  Maybe a hat or really toasty warm socks later on....

I also did Bad Cat Designs November KAL..Autumn in New York.  Andrea does wonderful work..the shawl was  a breeze to do..minus papers and quizzes!

I used some sport weight Merino Hand Dyed that I got from M a while back..its a nice shawl to take the chill off...

Socks for a friend..generic ribbed socks.  Knit Picks Imagination alpaca blend sock yarn.

And Finally the first finished object for 2009...a little something sparkly for me.  A nice quick knit.

Simple wristlets made with a delicious yarn. Artyarns Beaded Mohair and Sequins.  Warm, gorgeous and dresses up jeans and a sweater beautifully.

I've got a new lace shawl on the needles, but more on that in a day or two...

New year, new beginnings for everyone...take a deep breath...