so much i don’t know

Seems that everywhere I look these days, everyone’s doing entrelac. Me, I’ve just learned knitting in the round and basic cables — now I need to learn short rows and entrelac. Ai! All in good time…

knittin’ away

knittin

Originally uploaded by lothie
This is me, knitting with double! pointed! needles! at long last, at a Charlotte Purls meeting. I’m making fingerless gloves. Now that I’m using DPNs and doing cables, nothin’s gonna stop me!

The pic was originally taken by Stacey (http://crimsonpurl.blogspot.com/), but I cut it down so you can’t see anyone else’s face. Not that you can see much of mine either! *grin*

blue waltz

blue waltz

Originally uploaded by lothie
This is a necklace I made with blue glass beads, clear/silvered glass beads, and silver spacers with a silver toggle. The beads are held in place with crimp beads. The necklace is 18″ and will be available in my Etsy shop.

took me long enough

So, I finally got the hang of double-pointed needles. Basically, I joined this new knitting group that I found through Ravelry, and we were all going to be working on fingerless gloves at next Saturday’s meeting. Well, I make fingerless gloves a lot actually, but I knit them flat and sew them up the side (with a hole for the thumb). It’s a viable way of doing things and all, but I figured that this wasn’t going to cut it for the meeting. So I found a fairly simple pattern, bought some yarn and needles, and consulted my knitting handbook on how to join knitting.

It’s not easy for me to learn stuff from written instructions; I need to be shown. But I figured that at a two hour meeting nobody was going to have time to show me something basic like this. So I just concentrated really hard on the written instructions, and finally managed it.

Well, obviously, this is going to change the way I knit a LOT. Whee!