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Building Silver Hydrangeas

flowers silver plate WIP

Building Silver Hydrangeas

On a recent pass through the Dorcas Thrift Shop in Cary, NC, I found a striking silver plated champagne cooler, badly tarnished but otherwise in good condition. It needed a huge arrangement of flowers, and I had been looking for a container for a set of recycled remnants. The first step was to make sure the flowers I had created would work with the container. I protected the bottom of the champagne cooler so that the wire stems would not scratch the silver plate, and loosely grouped a selection of flowers. (The vivid magenta flowers in the picture above didn't...

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LoveIsLove Pi Shawl, Complete

#LIL Designing LoveisLove WIP

LoveIsLove Pi Shawl, Complete

Done; off the needles, ends stitched in, washed and somewhat blocked.  That's a full-size bed.  Still need to get a formal shot against a white background so the lace details show up; ideally, with the shawl and the camera aligned.  Ran out of the navy glitter yarn halfway through the last round. Tested several lace edgings and in the end, decided a simple cast-off was the better option. Fun.  Engaging.  Now onto something new.

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#LIL Off the Needles

#LIL LoveisLove WIP

#LIL Off the Needles

Done!  (Mostly--still have to sew in loose ends and block.) Used a stretchy cast off to end the last row of feather and fan.  Now to stitch in the ends, wash, and block. May use the spare room bed to pin it out.

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Swirls, Part Two

Designing Swirl WIP

Swirls, Part Two

I sent down start to work out the pattern for Swirls. First, I charted the pattern as it was written, to make an octagon. I laid out the yarn overs and the K2Ts and I couldn’t quite figure out how the pattern actually grew. It looked like you did one K2T for every yarn over. However, drawing out the pattern helped me understand what the basic structure of the unit. Next, I drew out the pattern again, this time working out where I needed to be increasing additional stitches to turn the octagon into a hexagon. Again, I couldn’t figure...

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Swirls: New Work

Designing Swirl WIP

Swirls:  New Work

I’m almost done with the #LoveIsLove Pi Shawl, and I have a commission on the way, but it’s not going to come in for a few more weeks. I need something to knit. We have a car trip this weekend, and a convention, and I have about an hour or three left on #LoveIsLove, and that’s not enough. I need something to knit. I had a spin through the Pittsboro resale stores today.  On my pass through the PTA thrift shop, I found 3 cones of 8/2 rayon in a soft gray color. It’s fine and a little shiny, and...

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