Such pretty Malabrigo... and more things!

We got some new Malabrigo in at Baaad Anna's yarn store...  

 Some Worsted weight

  (More Worsted weight)

 And some sock weight!

(And some more Sock weight!) 

I'm also going to be some plotting with this beautiful ball of Louet Sport... so lovely. It's less red in person, more purple loveliness.

Also, a swatch! I wish I could put dibs on this lace for ever and ever! I love it so much! Designing really heavily right now with it. Much love :) 

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More plotting and some test-knitting!

This is about twice or three times as big now... nearing completion. Will be a new pattern. It seems like everyone and their dog has designed a shawl with some sort of repeating leaves, but I'm just learning how to write lace with charts so I decided to start small! I defaulted to using one of my favourite yarns Baby Alpaca Sport by Diamond Luxury. I bought three skeins... let's see how many I use! 

This is my old pattern All About Love, knit out of Diamond Luxury's Lima yarn. So lovely and squishy and beautifully coloured! I thought I was going to need three balls but only ended up using 2! So I returned the third ball and bought the yarn I mentioned above for the repeating leaves shawl :) 

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Finished the crescent shawl

but I can't block the thing properly. I left all my blocking wires and pins at home... I got it wet though and lied it flat to dry and it's looking satisfactorily! I'm pretty happy that this thing is done!

Does the garter top look too roll-y? Ah well, I am not ripping this damn thing back again. 

Shawl pattern coming soon! 

Next:

Mini Rasta! Rastita! 

Designing a neck thing to display the lovely colours in this yarn! It's soft felted and light and squishy and it's... it's... Malabrigo! 

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That shawl and a cat bed.

I haven't been really able to use my brain for anything knitting-related recently... but I decided today that I would pick up my new shawl design prototype and knit the damn thing!

Yesterday I spent all day at Baaad Anna's wet felting!

Nicola taught me and few other cool cats how to make felted bowls/cat houses. 

This is what it looked like! (the blue/grey ended up being in the inside)

Here's what it looks like now:

It needs a bit more felting... the inside needs some felting love. It was supposed to look like this: 

Which you can buy for $60 from here!

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Malabrigo!

So. Me, Caitlin, and Nicola have the privilege to test-knit a new Malabrigo yarn!

It's called Rastita, (also known as mini-rasta) 

We're all designing fun things out of it! Nicola is going to be doing a beret/hat-like thing! Caitlin is knitting wrist warmers or leg warmers or a big bow possibly! I am planning on doing something lovely for around your neck! To display the lovely colours! 

We're all so excited we could puke. 

Photos! 

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I'm on my fourth re-knit

I'm finally finished (I hope) working out all of the kinks for this lovely red belly short row crescent shawl (which actually doesn't have a name yet). Here's a photo of Caitlin modelling the previous incarnation of this damn thing. The almost-twelve-feet-long version. Which I frogged. I'm not bitter. It was my own fault. I arrogantly did not swatch. I apparently don't walk my gauge-swatching talk. ANYWAY.

I will post photos of the fourth re-knit when I'm finished it. 

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Magic happened

Me and Caitlin are knitting masterminds of the yarn world. 

I will keep you updated... 

We're waiting for stage two of our wool-wrapped plan to arrive in the mail.

Muhahahaha. 

Also, may I remind you how much I love Malabrigo? 

A lot. I love Malabrigo a lot. 

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Gonna frog it, knit it again!

So this was the thing I was working on. A crescent shawl, worked with short rows and a lace border. It would have been awesome, but somehow I managed to calculate it wrong and end up with twelve feet worth of shawl (as opposed to the 6 or so feet I was looking for). Good news is: I get to re-knit it! And other good news is that I get to work out some kinks on the re-knit!

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I'm working on something new!

It's a crescent shawl... we'll see if I like it when it's done. 

I wouldn't be surprised if I rip it out a couple of more times!

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