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  • Long Weekend – Colours of the Fall

    Long Weekend – Colours of the Fall

    It was a very productive, very busy long weekend here. We were Grand-dog sitting and I was working on a pattern. We binged some tv and generally had a quiet weekend.

    In the past I created the charts for my patterns with the Word program on my computer. I beat it into submission (maybe it beat me into submission! LOL! ) and learned how to create charts for cables and colourwork. I considered it an Ok system, not perfect, but serviceable!

    A few years ago I discovered Stitchmastery and It is much more than serviceable! Stitchmastery is a software tool for designers that allows the designer to create beautiful charts. The learning curve was a bit of a challenge at first. It still is, but I am learning more about what Stitchmastery can do every time I use it!

    So this weekend i decided to work on a set of charts for my next release in my Salish Sea Collection, Spirit Bear! The transfer is going along fabulously. I took the biggest chart, the back, it required 4 pages to create with word and took it down to one page using Stitchmastery! I was so thrilled with those results! The rest of the pattern will go much faster as I learned all the shortcuts as I worked on the back chart!

    Maybe I will finish the rest of the charts for Spirit Bear off this coming weekend!

    We walked the dogs, Sophie, our 13 year old beagle and Alfie, my daughters 3 year old, at a beach every morning this weekend, Piper’s Lagoon, Neck Point and Departure Bay beach. Every morning was glorious – grey and foggy and sometimes even a little wet! The tide was out and that gave the dogs so much beach to run on every morning. It was a great start for them and for Tom and I.

    Check out my walk around Neck Point on Sunday, always one of my favourites. We were there around 7:00am. See the beauty of the fog, the soft greys of the sky and the colours of the foliage. See how calm the sea was. It was a beautiful morning.

    A profusion of Turkey Tail Fungi!
    My favourite view in the park, always!
    The skies might be varied shades of grey but check out the mix of fall colours in the foliage.
    The poA lone eagle in the distance
    The point at Pipers Lagoon and Shack Island through the fog.
    More fall foliage!
    Beach debris.
    I do love the Fall foliage! I never seem to tire of the shades the nature creates, just by changing the temperatures!

    On Monday I made a blackberry pie with some frozen berries. It was like a little bit of Summer had come for a visit!

    We still have five batches of berries frozen for pie. It will keep the Winter at bay.

    How as your long weekend? Was it productive? Or was it lazy? It is sometimes hard to decide which is best!

    Happy Knitting

    Lynette

  • Next UP!

    Next UP!

    My Sunrise sweater is finished! I am quite pleased with it! And it fits perfectly!

    In tidying up my workroom I have stumbled across a couple of other sweaters for myself. The Pink Juniper Moon Beatrix is the next one on my list to finish. I love the softness of this yarn. It is sooo light and sooo soft! And it knits up so quickly! The other sweater did not pass muster and was quickly ripped back and rolled into a ball, waiting for a different style to work into. 🙂

    You may note a bit of a trend here… most of the sweaters I knit for myself are tunic length. I hate to be cold and a longer sweater keeps my back nice and toasty! I do have a plan for another piece, most likely a vest, longer, with split sides, a knit belt, and colourwork, colourwork in the Muhu style. Which is bright! Oh so bright! Just my style.

    • Roosimine and Knitting an Estonian Garden
    • Embroidery on Knitting
    • So much inspiration!
    • Eco Scandinavian Chunky
    • Oh these socks just make my toes curl! are they not amazing?

    I will have to revisit my pattern Knitting and Estonian Garden, for some Roosimine patterns to add to the vest. Roosimine is an embroidery style technique from Estonia that is worked on your knits as you knit. It is quite common for knits to have surface embroidery to add details.

    I will not be using a fine yarn. I am going to work with a new Chunky, Eco Scandinavian Chunky. It is new this year from Estelle and it is a lopi style yarn. You can see the colours I picked. I may need to add a green or blue. Still thinking on it! Swatching should commence this week.

    And Finally! I have written up a little pattern that hightlights my current mindless, evening or travelling project. i hope that you will like it.

    Crystalline Lattice

    This Cowl, Wimple or Scarf pattern is the perfect project to mop-up of all of the left-over bits of laceweight silk mohair that we all seem to be collecting.  This is a tube scarf, that can be something different at different lengths.  Right now it is only Cowl size, but as it becomes longer it will grown to be a Wimple (a tube that covers both neck and head) and then a scarf.  I am aiming for a scarf myself.  So, until it is a scarf the pattern will be free.

    The very basic atomic shape of a natural crystal as it grows is a lattice.  So here we are growing our own crystal.  Mine shows as shades of purple.  What will your Crystalline Lattice show?

    It is a super simple pattern, 7 rows, slipped stitches, stockinette and little garter stitch.  The slipped stitches are twisted as we slip them, it gives them a very linear, ropey appearance.

    As you work through the repeating pattern you can change up the colours of the mohair/silks.  I am working with 4 close shades, and rotating them from lightest to darkest.  But I am thinking of making a second scarf, and picking up all sorts of bits to make a really wild colourway with no stripe the same and/or no pattern to the colour stripe sequence.  Or maybe I should get some earthy tones and make something a little more organic.  This pattern could go so many places.

    Crystal LatticeDownload

    So Happy Knitting!

    Lynette