It seems crazy that I didn’t even have a chance to post this one as a WIP, but I’m on a knitting roll at the moment.

I cast Damson on the day after I finished my vine yoke, and three days later I had this beautiful shawl.

It’s going to be a Christmas gift for my mother, who has blue eyes, so I think it will look great.

I used a thicker yarn (technically a DK, but I have my doubts about that) and slightly larger needles.

Obviously, as yet unblocked, as it rained all day yesterday and I knew it wouldn’t dry inside. Today, it’s already blowing a gale outside, so we’ll see if it (and vine yoke) get blocked today.

Now, I should be working on Pants’ mystery gift, but I’m itching to cast on Lorelei.

Vine Yoke is finished, well, you know, except for blocking, weaving in a few ends and finding and attaching buttons.

For the purposes of the blog, FINISHED!

What a brilliant project. I cast on at 5pm on Monday and knit my final stitch at 9pm on Thurs. Surely some kind of record. A happy, happy upper body garment for August’s resolution knitting.

I made a couple of wee changes, as follow:

• Left off the  sleeves and continued the yoke lace as a kind of sleeve cap by binding off the wrapped stitches from the body piece and turning the last stitch of the body chart into a k on the right side (p on WS) to match the edging chart. I worked 10 repeats of the yoke chart (may be slight overkill, but I have fat arms), then changed the last stich back to a p on RS, cable cast on those 5 stitches before adding the body stitches to the yoke and continuing on with the back.
• I cast on using long tail and left off the last row and bound off using Russian on the w/s.
• I slipped the first stitch of every w/s, because that’s what I do.
• I didn’t read the notes on the first page properly and picked up and knit all of the wraps. It still looks fine, but it took a tiny bit longer than it could have.

This working of the pattern used FAR less yarn than was indicated (3.15 skeins, rather than 7), which is good, because I only had five. In hindsight, though, I could easily have made the sleeves with the yarn that I had. On the positive side, I’ve enough yarn for a cowl and a hat, so…

The yarn (Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted) is absolutely gorgeous to work with, slightly dry with an almost papery hand, I could knit with it all day.

Five stars for this project.

Still knitting along on Vine Yoke.

Day three ended with my having completed 13 of 17 lace repeats required for the back.

By my calculations, I’m 33 repeats in to my 53 repeat cardigan, so well over half way.

I’ve just joined my third skein, so either I’m doing something terribly wrong or the yardage requirements are out by quite a bit. Regardless, I’m very pleased with the way it’s turning out and can’t wait to wear it before the weather turns and it’s too hot.

I’ve been a bit… cast-ony of late, so when the new Twist Collective came out, I immediately went not-stash diving.

I’d been saving this gorgeous Lorna’s Laces Worsted for another project, Sideways Spencer Redux by Annie Modesit, but when I saw Ysolda’s Vine Yoke Cardigan, it was love at first sight.

I only have 5 skeins, and the pattern in my size calls for 7, so I’m going to do mine sleeveless and hope for the best!

Zephyrama and I cast on within 20 minutes of each other, so the heat is on to get it done before we hang out on Friday (four day cardi? Doable), so here is my first evening’s progress.

I’m doing the 44″ size, which is one inch of positive ease, and here I’ve done 5 of 7 lace repeats for the front right. I’m loving this project so far.

The newest design in the Not Stash range is the Twilight Scarf, a quick, easy to knit lace scarf best suited to semi-solid or solid yarns.

The design takes under 100g of fingering/4ply yarn, 4.5mm/ US7 needles and a darning needle and is available for $3US, hereon Ravelry or you can buy it below:

I haven’t been slacking on my resolution knitting this month, either. I’m almost finished my upper body garment and have knit a few lace items, I just have to tackle the items for the feet (Perhaps Ysolda’s Grown Up Booties, they look nice and quick).

I’ve been going really gung-ho with our line of patterns, including this one, the Mermaid Scales cowl. It’s been test knit by some lovely people over on Ravelry and the pattern is ready to go. It comes in two sizes, regular and super slouchy and uses a single skein of worsted weight yarn, 6mm/ US10 needles and a darning needle.

It’s currently available as a PDF on Rav, here, costing $3US, or you can buy it using the paypal button below.