Pattern: One Skein Wonder from Glampyre Yarn: My handspun, hand dyed merino, very soft. I dyed the top, spun it up and navajo plyed. I was delighted to find it knit to gauge. Needles: 5mm Circs for body and 3.75mm circs for ribbing and moss stitch sleeve detail. Comments: This was a very fast knit for me, I reckon it took me about 6 hours all up, and I'm not a superfast knitter by any standards. The worst bit was picking up stitches for the ribbing, I did pick up too many and I think this has been one of the factors in why the ribbing isn't as 'pulled in' as I would like. I also should have used 3.5mm circs, but I don't have any. I'll be away for a week, attending the Geelong Textile Fibre Forum YAY!. I've been looking forward to this for 6 months. Today is AFL Grand Final Day. A great excuse to eat savloys LOL

My One Skein Wonder

Kiri Shawl - FINISHED!!

Pattern: Kiri (12 repeats of chart 2) from All Tangled Up Needles: 5mm Circs. I used a 7mm straight needle to cast off. Finished size: I haven't measured, but it is wider than my wing span so I'd say it is around 170cm wide and it reaches down past my bottom, so it is a nice size Yarn: My handspun 2 ply from a locally grown merino cross fleece. Spun in the grease. Comments: This was a fun knit, and as a relatively new knitter (since January 05) by far my largest project yet. I highly recommend using a much larger needle and the pattern's instructions for casting off, this way you will get enough stretch to get the points on the edge (the points in the photo aren't showing up too well because I wore it yesterday and they tended to curl.) And, I found this cluster of pods on our walk tonight.

Pods

Kiri Shawl - Finished

Nearly closed up for the day

Kiri is finished and blocking. No full shot photos til then, but here's a glamour shot to tide you over.

Another day, another gallery opening. Geez life is tough LOL. Cowwarr Art Space is hosting a travelling exhibition of works by Jim Thalassoudis. His paintings are of the sky; cloud formations, dramatic sunsets and bushfire affected heavens. I enjoyed the works immensely. I also had the chance to meet Stephen Gallagher who I mentioned yesterday. I am sad to say I had a go at him about his lack of web presence, sorry about that Stephen. He tells me he is going to create some larger scale works using bigger mesh. I look forward to seeing what he comes up with! Stephen informed me of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria called Everlasting - The Flower in Fashion and Textiles 26 August 2005 - 2 April 2005. Sounds like Riscy and I will need to plan another Melbourne weekend excursion. And to round this post out, here is a photo I took this afternoon of a Four O'Clock* folding up for the night:

This is what Riscy's mum calls them. I think they are californian poppies though.

Look Whats Blocking!!