A Productive Summer

While I adore creating designs and knitting them until the process is perfect, I have to admit that I detest transcribing my notes into a coherent and easily understood pattern. That is one of the main reasons why the posts in this blog are few and far between. Another reason is that I hate to stop knitting long enough to type up patterns and post them online.  :) 

This summer has been quite productive. Since my last post I have converted several of my patterns to be compatible with mobile devices, designed a triangular shawl in knit, a triangular shawl in crochet, two rectangular wraps, three hats and a very silly pair of slippers.

I have even gotten around to writing up the patterns for the knit triangular shawl, one wrap and a hat.

First up, my homage to the late, great Miss Elizabeth Taylor.

She inspired me with her elegance, her style and her stunning Violet eyes. Knit with Blue Heron Yarns "Rayon Metallic", this shawl sparkles and shines like her signature diamonds.

Miss Taylor

$5.00

Mobile device compatible version available.

 

Next we have:

Shawn Says, "Skhat!"

$4.00

Mobile device compatible version available.

Super slouchy, very textured and ultra hip.

 

And finally a wrap that can also be worn as a scarf and is named for a very special lady, 

Mette over at Ranch of the Oaks. 

Go there, visit Mette, Tom, the Alpaca 

and the Sheep.

Anna Mette

$5.00

Mobile device compatible version available.

 

Shawl finished!

Here be the still un-named shawl.

Happy now, Leslie and Karen. ;)

Constructed of Tivoli Luxury Aran Tweed. The picture shows the shade, well, but it does not show the tweedy flecks of yellow, red and blue. It's a basic triangle shape with a diamond lacey pattern. Not bad for a first shot at this pattern. I want to use the same lacy diamond pattern in a half hex shawl. That will probably be the next foolishly ambitious project. I may just lose my mind totally (Shaddup, you guys. Yeah, you know who you are!) and do the math for another type of lace for the next shawl.

The shawl is finished. Washed, blocked, photographed. The whole enchilada. I have not downloaded the pics from the camera, yet, but when I do, I will post the photos here.