Holy moly. I’ve never taken such a long blog vacation previously. I have been knitting, though very slowly. Hank (remember him??) loves to steal yarn balls and run around the house like a demon with them. So there are only two kinds of knitting around here: One kind, where Hank is sleeping, and the other kind, which involves a lot of yelling and dog spit-soaked yarn.
Here’s a recent photo of the yarn destroyer.
I HAVE finally finished something though! It’s PINK and it’s PRETTY!
Project Details:
- Pattern: Quatrefoil, by Janina Kallio
- Yarn: Cream Silk, from DyeForYarn, in the color Baby Unicorn. This is fingering weight, I used two skeins, 800 meters worth.
- Needle: 3.00 mm Chiaogoo bamboo interchangeable
- Started: Dec 22, 2022
- Finished: May 31, 2023
- What I learned: I like PINK! I don’t think I have much of anything PINK in my wardrobe, certainly not in my shawl collection. I bought it for the color name, because who doesn’t love baby unicorns?? I also learned that knitting silk on metal needles is guaranteed to result in tears. Once I switched to the bamboo, I was one happy camper.
- Yarn/Pattern rating: *****/****. This CreamSilk stuff is like crack. The colors are gorgeous, and it knits up beautifully, other than being slippery. The pattern is a simple triangle shawl, started at the bottom point with just a few stitches and increasing on each side. It makes a weird, really pointy triangle shape that isn’t my favorite, but I tend to wear shawls wrapped around my neck anyway, so it doesn’t matter. The pattern itself is well-written.
Those are my peonies in the background. I moved them to this location two years ago, and they apparently love it, and are blooming like crazy.
That’s all for now, I’ll try not to take such a long break next time!
Pretty in pink!!! Ah, yes….puppy days! There is hope!
I love it! I love your modeling poses too!
Hank is a prankster! Doggie Boy Oliver used to really enjoy jumping on my bed and converting 3 of my fine wool Scottish Tartan rugs into serapes!
That’s really funny to see your blog in my email this morning. I was on your site yesterday looking to see you had ever done a vest. That will be my next project and I can’t commit to a pattern.
Love it! And love these photos of you.
You look truly relaxed and happy 🤗
Hank has such cool Corgi colouring! Nice shawl, I need to get another started one of these days…only been sock knitting.
Very pink and very pretty. And Hank is a man now! How time gets away. . .
What a beautiful location you get to enjoy while knitting. Yes, pink looks great on you!
Department of Unsolicited Advice here. Do you have a yarn bowl? If you put your ball of yarn in one and threaded the working end through the opening, Hank would have a mighty hard time grabbing the ball and running with it. Or you could continue to enjoy his antics 🙂 Beautiful shawl and peonies, btw!