Pashmina Scribble Lace Cowl

Good Afternoon,

I think my fingers are bloody stumps!  I have been working on the Pashmina Lace Cowl Pattern in several different programs.  Most of the ones online use a format to create the graph to gauge, and then it transitions into your graph.  BUT, it is downloaded as a PDF document, which is a PAIN!  I don't simply want to print, which is great if that is all you want to do, then these types of programs are perfect.

I wanted to download to my documents and then create my graph, pattern key and insert it into the pattern. No can do!  So I searched around some more and found a great little tutorial using Excel, and it proved to be better than the last one I used.  I will add the link: http://www.marniemaclean.com/words/2007/08/using_excel_to_1.html. 

It is short, sweet and to the point that even an Excel challenged person that I am, could understand it.  So, I would like to share the knitting key.  The graph wouldn't work in this space, it just got strange looking.

	Knit Every Round
0	YO
K	Knit
\	SSK
/	Knit 2 Together

This is my beautiful daughter, Jessica modeling the Pashmina Cowl.  And for a bit of whimsy....

Just for fun, she pulled it up over her hair.  Very cute.

As before, when I published the original photo, I had offered to share this free from me to you, just because.  Thank You for following my blog.

Have a great weekend and Happy Knitting!

Pictures and Projects

Good Afternoon!

Hot and humid, yeah I know, everyone is feeling it except maybe Siberia.

Late start today, so much to share. First I would like to add some pictures.

 This is the French Beret that I completed after taking Mariepaule's class.  She is an incredible fiber artist. Spinning, dying, picking and cleaning fleeces, designer, and knitter just to name a few of her talents.  She resides in the Mid Hudson Valley and you can read more about her and her fiber artist husband, Arturo, at her Etsy shop,
http://www.etsy.com/shop/cheltenhamcottage.

This is the Pashmina Scribble Lace Cowl that  I finished knitting and then blocked yesterday.  I thought it was soft while knitting it, but after washing and blocking, I couldn't believe how much sofer it became.

This is a little trio of Mother Earth Washcloths.  They are knit from 100% cotton and the colors represent the sun (yellow), the lush greenery (green) and also water, because they have to be wet to use them.  They are amazing to use.  My favorite is with handmade soap. 

So, now for the reason I am so late in getting this out to you.  I have spent the last couple of days setting up the loom.  I weave with a Riggid Heddle from Ashford.  The loom itself I have used before, but I purchased a loom stand awile back and just finished building it up yesterday.  My sweetheart, Emerson, is going to retrofit it with a box on the back to hold my  heddles and shuttles. 

Well, when I got home from work this morning, it just started singing to me.  So I pulled out the fiber, filled out the worksheet, used to determine how much warp (lengthwise) and weft (crosswise) I would need to begin weaving.  Once I had the loom warped, I just couldn't just walk away, I had to sit down and I wove til noon.

I also have some silk fiber that I want to use, but first I have to spin it.  Too much fiber and not enough hours in the day.  Do you ever feel like that?

I will appologize for tooting a horn here, but my daughter Ashley, made the Dean's list at Ulster County Community College.  She is taking an accelerated Calculus course.  What a brainiac!
Congratulations Ashley!  Love You!

Have a great weekend everyone.  Stay cool, hydrated and bring on the fiber.