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finished: holden shawlette

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Laura C in knitting

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holden shawlette, plucky feet

I finished my Holden Shawlette weeks ago, and haven’t posted about it–mainly because it is seriously difficult to photograph the back of oneself while artfully wearing a shawl. (And my helper husband gets a little weird about quilt photography, so the mortification of a shawl photography session…well, I didn’t even ask him.)

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This was the first lace pattern I’ve ever knitted, and my first “shawl”. It was much less difficult than I thought it would be! I also thought the finished object might not be so useful. “Good practice,” I thought, and then I thought it would stay folded in a drawer. Not so!

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I wear it all the time! It looks great over a tank top and bare shoulders (so I can only assume it’ll look great over a summery dress), but it also looks fantastic over a sweater and under my fitted cloth spring jacket, worn like a scarf.

I used The Plucky Knitter Plucky Feet in Edwardian (a colorway that has since been discontinued. I feel pretty lucky to have snagged a skein in time! The green-blue-grey color suits me perfectly). Because I used a true sock yarn, the shawl is really sturdy with great shape retention. (Though it may not have blocked out to the intended size, for the same reason.)

Finally, I’ll just mention that you can get this lovely pattern by Mindy Wilkes free on Ravelry. Try it! I think if you can knit and purl and kind of keep track of what row you are on, you can do it.

and then half of March flew by

14 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Laura C in knitting, quilts

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asbury challenge, glam garlands, holden shawlette, lizzy house, lizzy house glam garlands

and I didn’t blog once!

When I go long periods of time between blog posts, usually I am one of three things: 1) busy sewing, 2) outside, or 3) pregnant. While I PROMISE I am NOT #3 (toddler. making. me. dumber.), I have been very much #1 and #2! It’s not exactly spring yet, but it’s been warm enough for some long outside walks and some mud puddle stomping.

And that toddler? Her second birthday is coming up in early April. I put my head down last week and came up with this, the top of her big girl quilt:

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The pattern is Elizabeth Hartman’s Glam Garlands, from Modern Patchwork. Have I mentioned here how much I love this book? This is the second pattern I’ve used, and it was so quick and dreamy-easy. The piecing was a very pleasurable, low-stress process. No points or seams to match! Even the squaring-up of the units was easy.

The rainbow of prints are from that lovely 50 fat eighth bundle that I bought from Lizzy House in December. I used 47 of the 50 prints (I saved out two of the low volume PB prints for a forthcoming low volume quilt, and the darker brown PB seemed a little repetitive). I’m realizing I may have a bit of a spectrum quilt compulsion, as I also did Fire Drill in a rainbow! This gray time of year, though, I need the colors. (Tangent: once I finally figure out how to photograph a quilt in the smallest apartment ever in the dead of the MA winter, I will write a wonderful and useful book and become famous. Ha.)

I hope it makes my “luck-or” (color) loving girl happy!

also in the works are a Holden shawlette:

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It’s my first lace pattern! Though I am weenie-ing out and using the written instructions and not the chart. Yarn is Plucky Feet in Edwardian.

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I’m surprised at how well the lace is going so far!

and here’s a sneak peek of my SMQG Asbury challenge project. Can you guess what I am making?!

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I am keeping the piecing super-duper simple on purpose, for laundry reasons. 🙂

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