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Shawls

I am on a shawl roll.

I have 22 rows and a CO to finish my own Ulmus. I knitted quite a few rows of it last Saturday while managing to knit quite by myself but in public as the day demanded:

Knitting by myself in a Pub in Lewiston, NY

Knitting by myself in a Pub in Lewiston, NY

Still Knitting in Public, Bridges, Georgian Bay, ON, Canada

Still Knitting in Public, Bridges, Georgian Bay, ON, Canada

Last Wednesday I succumbed to a yarn I kept finding in different yarn shops since just before Christmas 2007. What kept attracting me to it are all those colors. Actually I think I first saw it in a bulky version and I bought the worsted one but the colors are the same, it is Misti Alpaca Hand Painted Worsted in the colorway Neruda. From some reason I can’t find my colorway on their website, maybe they don’t sell it any more.

Thursday I couldn’t resist it and started the Shawl that Jazz and I enjoy every minute of it. All those colors on my needles really make me happy:

Aren't they pretty?

Aren't they pretty?

On Saturday I received the very beautiful Whisper Lace Yarn in the colorway Arabian Nights I ordered from Kim of The Woolen Rabbit, this is going to be a special gift for my sister who is going to be 60 at the end of September. I  tried to take a photo of the yarn:

So Soft, So beautiful but the colors are all wrong

So Soft, So beautiful but the colors are all wrong

But couldn’t get even close to the real colors. I think the gray weather that by the way,  make me quite happy, didn’t help, although my guess is that this color will be difficult to photograph even under the best conditions. It is much darker, rich  and oh so beautiful and soft. This is going to be a very pleasurable project indeed.

Oh and I already know what I am going to knit next and yes, it is another shawl, the Milkweed Shawl by Laura Chau, I saw it on her when I visited Lettuce Knit last Wednesday and was so happy to see the published pattern on her blog the next day! I have this very same color of Casbah yarn waiting to become something lovely for me. When I bought this yarn I thought I will have to find a pattern to knit something that will not hide in my shoes most of the time and I think I just found it.

I wonder how long I will manage to resist starting this one too. I need to knit a pair of socks before I start this one, do you hear me Rachel?!?

Almost Ulmus

I think I write this post just so I can use this header, it sounds so nice to me.

I have this much yellow yarn left:

Can I squeeze 10 more rows out of this?

Can I squeeze 10 more rows out of this?

To knit 10 more rows on this:

Almost Ulmus

Almost Ulmus

I think I will have to patiently wait the arrival of the second yellow meadow skein and hope the color will be close enough that I will not have to reknit the whole edge.

Too little yarn, too many rows to go

Too little yarn, too many rows to go

It is raining in Toronto and the rain washes the green and makes it even greener,  I enjoy it so much.

I wish there was a way to pack some green and a lot of water and send it to my family and friends in Israel, they need it really badly. After a few years of drought, the water shortage in Israel is reaching a crisis level:

When I watched this advertisement on TV during my last visit to Israel, I found it quite disturbing, I wonder how effective it is.

New Year’s FOs

This Christmas I had two UFO’s packed as presents. Both packages carried Sam’s name and included a written promise to finish the projects before she goes back to college (January 18).

First I finished the Not Noro Striped Scarf :

Mysterious Girl

Mysterious Girl

Then I finished my first pair of knee high socks, Lakeside socks:

Oh what a lovely pair

What a lovely pair!

While I was nearing the end of the Lakeside, I saw Splityarn’s Noro Striped Sock and I felt a strong urge to knit a pair too, you can probably imagine how happy I was to find the exact same colorway in my Stash. I was good enough to finish the Lakeside first (I had a promise hanging over my head after all) before casting on for that lovely pair.

A few days later and before Sam went back to her frozen college in Vermont, these were ready:

Oh the colors of Noro!

Oh the colors of Noro

And now if you will excuse me, I must go walk, we started dieting today and our plan includs walking at least after 2 major meals (today we were good, we walked after lunch too).