I got sore hands and arms from all that knitting :( Decided it is better to stop for a little, to let my muscles rest. Who knows, it might be rsi and never get better! but after one week it's not sore anymore, I hope to start knitting again next week, slowly. But what a bummer, right in the middle of my holiday. Not that I was having fun anyway, granddad died, it's raining nonstop, plans got busted, blegh.

But I am working on finishing some older projects and I am happy to anounce that my first knitted lace shawl is finished!!!! it's not the first one to finish, but the first one I started.

Man what a job!!!! Didn't help it is handspun alpaca. Handspun horrible tangled up dirty full of grass and other horrific weeds alpaca :D

Anyhowz, here is the outcome:







I am so proud of myself

it's 1,9m bij 1,9m bij 2,7m. huge. so comfey.

note to self

Beads!!!



ordered wool, can't wait. In the mean time I'm busy finishing old projects. Going well, as I am on holliday. I finaly attached the pillowcover to the pillowslip. I finished scarf for fiancé. I nearly finished scarf I started over a year ago. I needed to spin more yarn. Yukkie black alpaca covered in dust and full of sharp sticky haybits-yarn. I measured, so far its only 2,2 m length and 1,2m wide (triangle). Should be 2,5 and 1,5 at the end. Crazy lady I am :S

weightless dress

hi Cat,
not sure what the size of the cotton is, it's from annell max. 100g 550 meter, 30 st and 60 rows on 10cm square, using needle 2,5. I am knitting on 3mm needles. Just got through my 2nd ball, at row 159
It's about 50cm length now. 100 rows to go! So I ll prbably need another 2 balls instead of 1.

I weighted the samples. Even together they wouldn't measure. So they are less than 1 g. Now I need to calculate how much I need for the dress.
I assume the dress has a size of about 1.7m2 that is 2x40x50 for the top, 2x20x30 for the sleaves and 120x90 for the skirt. The little sample was 7 by 13cm, thus 91cm2. I would need about 190 times the sample in size. Thus I would need about 190 times the weight. Assuming the weight is less than half a gram (I weight both samples, the little one should thus be less than half) I would need about 95g for the whole dress.

This makes me think: