a soft, dressy, easy-to-work triangle composed of a single allover lace stitch with pretty edging points along the sides and top. a great on-the-go summer project, in three sizes (one is a scarf), this project is well-suited for a first foray into triangle shawl knitting.

shown here, petite size in lanas puras melosa laceweight, from one planet yarn and fiber. kit available here.

to purchase pattern or view complete pattern information, please click here to see the product page in the knitspot pattern shop.

jocelyn is hot on my heels with her fabulous test knit in a spritely green shade of the same yarn. thank you jocelyn!
and rachel of course, brought the pattern to it’s birth in good form . . . thank you rachel.

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(sorry in advance to those who are getting a little freaked out with my fiddlehead photos . . .
i have a few last ones today; please bear with those of us who are enchanted by them!)

it’s a damp day here and perfect for garden photos. my little fiddleheads are unrolling and reaching their tiny arms and fingers outward now, so we’ll say goodbye til next year.

to commemorate their exciting resurgence and journey toward fernhood, we shall name the new little nothing scarf after them—how about that?

i’ve got this piece more than one-third of the way to scarfhood . . . it sure does go fast when i spend time knitting on it.

now, the damp air today might hamper the speed to another, much-anticipated finish, but i can show you where we are with that (and i think you’re gonna like this)

here’s a shot of the knitted fabric; it looks quite a bit different once its stretched

and the point, which i do love the shape of

you can get a nice idea from that photo of how yummy the yarn is.
and now, the money shot as debbieKnitter calls it

as soon as it dries and i can unpin it, david will take some nice photos of it being worn and flaunted about.
thank you for all your enthusiasm about this piece . . . i hope you find it lots of fun to knit.
lis at one planet yarn and fiber will be listing the kit as soon as i have the final pattern (probably tomorrow), and i will list the pattern as a standalone item in my own shop as well. yay.

and, in other exciting news, you’ll never believe it, but

not only did i have enough yarn to finish my spectator sock, but i have leftovers—probably about ten yards. i was so sure i would have to wait for extra yarn to arrive that i didn’t write up the pattern yet. but i’ll do that today and then we’ll get some photos for the knitting pattern to be released in the next week or so. i do like these socks very, very much. and the pattern will have several sizes so you’ll be able to knit them with any weight yarn.

the sweet woodruff is thick with tiny white blooms . . . more than i remember from other years, and when i bend close i can smell the sweet scent, lightly tinged with vanilla, mmmm.

since i got one pair socks off the needles, i had to give myself permission to start another pair . . . can’t go around with no socks on the needles. and for this next one i dug out my precious skein of twisted yarn that i purchased last year, which i’ve been saving for just the right thing (otherwise known as hoarding, which i am trying not to do).

this is colorway batty and the skein design is mutating variegate. meg’s yarns are awesome . . . one of my top picks for sock yarns. i decided i needed to unstash this skein and free it from the constraints of existing as a trophy yarn, because it is too good not to use—it gives pleasure many-fold, between winding, knitting, viewing, and wearing it.

also, i want to entice musclemom to knit some of hers, to treat herself to her good yarns. what i’m going to do with this sock is work the yarn up into a subtle, shifting rib that i think works really well with the color transitions in the twisted skeins—the pattern won’t interfere with the color, and the color won’t mask the pattern. more on this one later.

next, i’m going to start knitting with another of anne’s specialty yarns on a smaller scale project

while finalizing plans for some bigger scale projects to start shortly. here we have a beautiful deep alpaca/wool blend shot through with rivulets of silk in bright greens and blues (the light is bad today but i’ll get a better photo as i delve into this knitting project further).
i also have secret stuff i need to organize and get out the door, so with that, i’ll say so long.

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i’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off the last few days, between playing post-vacation catch up and going to badly-scheduled appointments.
especially when all i wanted was a few hours straight knitting time to get my edging finished on the star shawl . . . i shoulda stayed on vacation one more day i think.

but then all of a sudden it was done and free of its tether to the needle

just in time for me to head out to classes today, so i did not have time to block it.
but tomorrow i will do that first. thing.

that left me free to take a small project with me to the yarn shop to knit on during class. and since we started a beginning lace class today, i chose the little sweet pea

and knit several more inches on it while i was there. yay. here’s a closeup of the pattern, which kyrie rightly noted is so reflective of my little fiddleheads

which are stretching out their fingers now . . . more pix of those tomorrow.
i also took along my spectator sock (which i haven’t touched since the plane landed sunday), and you know, i might just make it with the yarn i have. knock wood. i mean i don’t wanna jinx it or anything, but i just might.

of course, i’m keeping tabs on ronni and all the rest of you who gave me great leads and suggestions for yarn sources in case i do end up a few yards short (and believe me, it will be just a few yards, if any).
thank goodness for you.

well, i think i’ll go meet my fate with that sock . . . i’m starting the toe now, wish me luck!

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when i went out the back door this morning i saw the fiddleheads still curled up and smiled.
a few had sprung their leaves, but most are at the perfect stage to get some nice photos.

they remind me a little of something else

i finally settled on a finish for the top hem of my star shawl. i thought i had exactly what i wanted—a petite picot to give a clean finish. but nooo-o. what i had planned actually looked awful once i began knitting it.

back to the drawing board i went and tried a few things. then i looked at the thing right in front of my face all this time and tried that . . . and finally, it was something i liked.
i don’t know why, but usually i stay away from using the same edging along the top as i’ve used along the sides. and i’m always happy with this contrast. but this time, none of that worked. sigh, there’s never a formula . . .

anyhow, here is a long view of the piece . . almost done

i canNOT wait to get it off the needles and block it now; i just hope i can tear myself away from it to go to bed at some point. i didn’t get to knit on it much since i had classes and played catch-up at my desk all day (don’t tell anyone, but i’m writing this post instead of packing patterns).

another outdoor surprise was this lime leafed hosta that finally showed its face

i think this is my very favorite hosta . . . i should get more of them with this coloration.
there is a hosta farm not very far from here and i think maybe this year i will drag david out there for an afternoon excursion to pick some nice additions for our garden.

our lilac is also at its peak bloom; it’s really pretty but i don’t dare breath very deeply while i’m this close to it. and the may apple plants have grown a foot or more in the last few days

(excuse our weeds; i’m just terrible about keeping after them).

i only have on other knitting project to show you; i’ve been so faithful about knitting on the shawl that i might even be boring today. but i do have the second spectator sock almost done now

this was taken this morning. i knitted a few more inches during classes today, and i can tell you it’s going to be really REALLY close on the yarn. i’m pretty sure i will be short a few yards.
A FEW YARDS—how desperate does that make me feel?

i didn’t see any of this for swap on ravelry (STR medium weight, haida colorway—just in case, you happen to see some . . . ). but then, i’m not exactly sure i’m searching ravelry the right way to track something like this down . . .

i have to confess, i am something of a ravelry numbskull. in fact, i’m just a little afraid of ravelry because i so don’t know what i’m doing when i’m there. i sort-of just go and bump into things by accident, when i’m not checking my mail or groups. and, while that’s not the worst way to be a tourist, it’s a terrible approach to doing research. or just to search; i’m confident though, that i’ll get better at it it some day. the light bulb is sure to go off at some point, right??

ok, now i have to get back to packing those patterns.

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