Monday, February 13, 2006

All Ready for Stitches West

I'm all ready for Stitches West, which is in 3 days. I've finished my swatches, made a list of what I need to take on Opening Day, made Thursday dinner reservations for "the group", assembled my notions, needles, and yarn.


Also, I worked all weekend to finish theses. The Lace Panel sweater from Sally Melville's Color book, which I will wear on Opening Day because Sally is the speaker and Judy Pascale's Beaded Shawlette.

I started the beaded shawlette on January 31st and finished it Feb. 12th. I finished this project in record time considering it takes about 300 yards of yarn and you have to manually add a bead to every other stitch every four rows. There is something very addictive about knitting this. I LOVE knitting, but I've never been so obsessive about a single project. It's just so fun to do and gets more and more beautiful as you go.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cris, I can't wait to see you at Stitches. The sweater and shawl are beautiful. You'll look just like a knitting magazine model!!

Jocelyn said...

Stunning -- how do you do it all? I think you need to open the curtains in your stashroom when you take pictures -- the last picture (taken at the office?) looks like there was more light -- showed off the beads more.