handmade by stefanie

In the past week, I've been spending the most time working on two long-term projects on the needles. The first is my transit project, the striped seraphim project , which saw a lot of action since I had to go downtown for a work thingy (technical term) for a few days last week: When I was home, the newly restarted Curl was my project of choice: Which means that my current sweater project has been a bit ignored...but on the plus side, I am closing in on the garter stitch scarf I inherited from my grandmother: And I started a new project using some beautiful hand-dyed colors of yak/nylon sock yarn from Bijou Basin Ranch: I couldn't resist this pair of colors (dyed by Miss Babs!) which both get their names from Edgar Allen Poe's The Telltale Heart : Lenore and Raven . I'm knitting Martina Behm's Matchmaker shawl pattern, which is a nice garter-stitch project that I am hoping will knit up quickly so that I can snuggle up in it this winte...

I spent most of last weekend finishing up my sample shawl in Lhasa Wilderness (spoiler alert, that's this Friday's post!), and now I'm back to working on the WIPs I had in progress beforehand. The Finial Hat in Woolstok needed the most love - I'd abandoned it just after starting the cabled stitch pattern: I also started - and finished! - the gusset shaping for the second Lightsaber Sock : The handspun crochet blanket continues to grow, but I'm not so sure that a photo will help illustrate the point - it really looks like quite the pile o' yarn at this point, and I need to weave in the many, many yarn ends before going any further. So instead I will show off this photo of a lovely new book by Hunter Hammersen ( Curls 2 ) which arrived on my doorstep yesterday and is tempting me to wind off a skein of yarn that's been in my stash for a bit: That's it for this week - see you back here on Friday for the reveal of my finished sample shawl!