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So the star throw is complete, i completed it long back and it took me a month to sit and do the finishing, sewing and all...

here it is unblocked....



and this is the close up




i have to wash it and block, will steam block it ... soon and then will pack it up for next winter.

i also have to finish with the Pi Shawl, and i guess it will be next winter i shall be able to use it.

so what kept me busy and away form knitting. i guess i have to change my profile on the blog. I have opened my own clinic,its been a month and it will slowly pick up work. Starting the clinic was big work and we all were busy with that. here are few pics.....

here is Panditji ( preist ) worshipping the Ophthalmic unit.



and here is the Idols of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Laxmi for my Clinic.



And here are few pics of free OPD camp we had .....



the entrance of the clinic....




we call the clinic Param Nethralay.

My Doily is form here yarn over website.

i loved all the doilies form the website and have made 2 of them. this is first one i am making in cotton, i do not know what to call this cotton as its shiny,some kind of mix with another fibre, i am not so good at knowing the variety, will work on that too, but i am sure its not pure cotton. this is a trial doily and i shall make more after i learn form this one. Next i plan to make a pure cotton doily, i have few hanks of plain white and also of dyed in multi colors.







i have also started on the star throw and am loving knitting it.



i have reached section 6 in about 6 days, so i guess speed is okay. At this rate i shall finish it in about 15 days ( one or two plus minus...if some thing comes up at home front )

i have to add one more day to my calculations of completing the throw. i noticed i had knitted few rows extra and had to frog the work, the needle shows till where i have to rip the work and start all over again :(



and this is the progress on the Lace Pi shawl.... i am not getting into the mood of picking it up again. But one thing is for sure when i do pick it up i would be mad knitting it all the time....and the work shall be done.







this is a bag gifted by my sweet mother in law .... she got it for me from London last year, and i couldn't think of a better use for it than to keep my knitting in it, isn't it cute :)



i have few pis of my plants to share will be on my next post.

BTW Obama won and its great news, i had logged on early in morning to know how the polling was going on, ( Indian time is 10 hours ahead of EST ) and till then the results were not out. Went to work and by the time i came back home in the after noon Obama was declared President.

well we don't have Television in our home, and its by choice. we have 2 sets of idiot box but non of them are connected to any service provider. so our news source is net or friends. I don't know how many there are like us but i have mt a few people here in Delhi who have cut off the cable. Main reason being KIDS. they just don't move away from cartoon network or any other channel. all the reasoning punishing etc has gone in the drain, so we cut off the cable.

many a times i feel our kids are controlling us, my mom says we were raised much easily as there was not much of television.

if some one has any suggestions pls do comment.

i have been busy with three projects at a time :)
the lace Pi shawl is all done and now i have to make the edging lace... that is where i got bored and started a doily. ( shall come at it later )

this is how i worked on placing the beads ....

I bought plastic thread / string (whatever to name it)and threaded it through the knitted stitch where i wanted to place the bead.
(the pics are the best i could get ... the flash would give too bright photo and it got a little fuzzy for this close field)




And then u thread the bead, through the both ends of the string.




remove the stitch from the needle and push the bead lower,



put the stitch back on to the needle




and knit on to next stitch where u want to put the bead



I preferred the string to the crochet hook for one i couldn't find the right size through which I could put the beads and for second.... it just cost me Rs 5 for this :





I shall be taking more pics today of my Doily in and also the star throw i am working on. its going good so far and i still keep reminding myself about the deadline for my lace shawl to be 29th Nov... a wedding in our family. My hubby's cousin is getting married. Either i have to finish the shawl few days earlier... (blocking and all)so i can plan to wear it in before marriage functions.

So the camera is clicking and clicking.

Here is a pic of Pepi’s Hat, got the free pattern from KR itself !!!



This one is laid flat, the pompom needs to be added



Then here is G8 hat for mother and daughter, the pattern was in magknits earlier but now u can find hit here ( many patterns that were on magknits are here )

http://www.knotions.com/patterns/magknits/g8/directions.aspx



top view... came out real nice :)



and then here is Samus... i loved knitting it but am lazy sewing it together, more pic will come up as soon as it is all assembled




here is a close up of the left lower border... it really is wow



and finally the Lace Pi Shawl. ( link http://floryknits.com/fp-lacepi.html )

i had started it with a different yarn, and thankfully realized that it was a wrong choice as the yarn was a little bulky for a shawl. froged it and started again with light weight yarn, used to knit for infants.



i tried clicking it indoors but the results weren't good. I am not happy with the pic taken outside, but they are okay. Had to stuff a pillow inside to highlight the lace pattern.....



and here are the beads i have used. they are small ones, my first ever, no rather second bead work. I had made a cardigan with beads, and i had put all the beads on the yarn and then made the cardigan. In this shawl i am putting beads on individual stitches ( will put more pic on how i am doing this).

i had bought bigger beads, but went for smaller ones fearing the weight of the shawl would increase and wasn't sure if the color of beads would go. White, off white or pearly white goes with most of the things. ( for some reason .... unknow to me, the pic has come rotated )



there are few changes i have made to the pattern. i shall not be making it as long as the pattern in the charts suggest. at present i am on row 152 ( chart 4 ) and from here i shall jump to row 170 and end the shawl ( sooner ). Reason being.... i have enough yarn for this length and didn't want to frog later if i fall short of yarn (had bought it on sale so its difficult to get more in same shade and lot ).

and i also plan to put beads on the lace border... lets see how many and how frequent.


i feel i am now addicted to beads, and now i am also looking to put beads in my next project, for which i have selected the pattern and fished out yarn form my stash.

I shall be posting more pictures of this shawl soon, a day or two. and the progress of the lace border i would knit.

please do leave a comment and / suggestions for my inspiration and improvement of the blog. i still am new to blogging and there are many features i dont know. would love to use them :))

well today i picked up my notebook and finally decided to restart my blogging. i have decided to bolg atleast once a week may be on weekends as it is easy to stay up late in night.

i have been knitting and gardening a lot.... lately. all my plants are potted and now as winter is coming i have lots of saplings for flowering plants. trying to grow herbs too.... lets see how it goes. Last year i started gardening and had lots of disappointments as the seeds didnt grow as i wanted them to...

well i completed "The lovely lace shawl " as seen here

http://old.canadianliving.com/CanadianLiving/client/en/Today/DetailGlossary.asp?IdSection=15019&bApercu=1

and here are pictures of my work. I had started it sometime in April 2007 but it got postpone and was left with the stash. I picked it up again sometime in late 2007 may be october , dont remember now ( its almost a year ) but did have a deadline to finish this. My husband's cousion got married in Jan this year and i finished it couple of days before the functons of the marriage started and then had to block it well in time to wear it at the "sagan" a function few days before marriage when all the relatives get together and the girl side bring offical invition to the boy's side.


here it is unblocked




all pinned up



top part, it didnt come out straight, but i loved it any way



the Picot lace was beautiful, all the ladies, ( even the ones who know knitting) thought that i had crocheted it.




the compliments were many and i cant wait to wear it all over again this winter.

At present I am knitting Lace Pi Shawl, (addicted to shawls!!!)

http://floryknits.com/fp-lacepi.html

i am at the 145th row and am planning to make it a smaller one. firstly i want to finish this asap, also i have enough wool to finish it if i skip chart 4 last section. will click snaps today and post them soon. I have also added beads to the shawl and now i am addicted to beading too. went to the wholesale market to buy beads and i my head was spinning wanted them all, its like buying yarn, you want it all. but money and space and most of all time to use them keeps your had tied. i keep thinking... after i have made theose 3-4 projects i will buy this and that.

i have so much clicking to do, samus is done... finally. sewing together is left..


and also 2 caps for kids.

All this i should thank my kids ..... i was taking them for caligraphy classes and had to wait for the class to finish. best thing to do is knit, even though it was summer. Now i am planning to decrease the size of my stash. till next year i shall not buy yarn ( hope so .... very difficult thing to do .... i know )

Hi ... all

that is if some one is checking my blog. its more than a year that i have posted on my blog and this has been a year that passed too qickly.

i had forgotten the password of my gamil account and then just checked it today and wow it worked. and now i guess i shall be hooked to bloggig.


i have made a shawl ..... the lovely Lace Shawl by Patons at

http://www.canadianliving.com/crafts/knitting/lovely_lacy_shawl.php


I shall post the pics soon.

Started my UFO " Samus".. am finished with the sleeves and now have to finish the main body.... Pics coming soon. All are saved on my computer but i am having problem upoading them. some trouble with the internet explorer.

more post coming up soon.

i am very eager to blog lot more and more

i had been postponing going to the market and getting things done, running chores and buying repairing etc, u know all sorts of small small things which don't take too much time but one doest feel like running around for that.

so yesterday i made a list of "must do jobs" and there were around 20 odd jobs i had to finish, out doors and indoors :-O.

i went to Rani Bagh, market abt 3 kms from home and took my mohair hanks and wool hanks to try out dying. i thought it will take time but this guy said he will give it to me in 10 mins. i choose the colors which i am not sure are good ones or not ( i am very bad in choosing colors, i have to always take help.) but it was nice to try, just try. i decided to get half of the hank to be dyed in one color and the other in two. the light color is not showing so good in sun light





but in little bit of shade, the color shows so good. I am not so sure of the blue colored one .... how things will come up in that. also what will i make of such less quantity, may be a spiral muffler !!!! i also think i need to read up about colors and learn a little more about mixing colors.




this is 2 ply pure wool, got it done in shades and boy the dye wala ( the person who was working with colors) did it so fast!!!! and his hands moved so cool and fast.... well its his job, someone sees us knitting esp who doesn't know knitting will think the same;-)





had been shopping for shawl pins too, with mohair i guess one would need light weight pins so here i was spending money again.




this one is really light and cute




sorry for the bad pic




i love this one




after coming picking up the kids from school, lunch and putting them for afternoon nap i got down to clean up a small room.... mostly used as storage place which had been overflowing with stuff and dirt and all the things which are not required and will never be used. and here is what i found. my needle work which i had done before my kids were born and at that time i was not into knitting so much. ( one of them is before my marriage)

this one is a gift for my mother in law i had give her before my marriage, on her birthday.( we live in Joint family... for those who would think what is it doing at ur place)



this one is my favourite. made two of these. my mother in law had seen this in my mom's house ( before my marriage and she liked it a lot, so did i) so there are two of these, on in my mom's place and one in our place.



this i made before a Diwali, for puja. must be about 8 yrs back.




all of these had been in this place becoz after the white wash we thought not to put anything on walls for a change. and they went into storage, soon to be forgotten.

my next mission is get few pics of the shops and market where i frequently go, craft and wool stores.

but today i still have to put my dry cleaned woolens in cupboard and the quilts are in the sun, have to put it in proper place along with lots of naphthalene. u cant store anything without that.

i had my share of knitting experience with mohair. i made a swatch from single ply mohair. and it has come out lovely. i have to gather strength and patience to knit a shawl in that.



the multi direction muff is coming out good. this particular project taught me something very important. the pattern is very simple. i had it with me for about a year or so, but kept on delaying to even try it out or make a small swatch, or even reading through the pattern. and now i feel i should have done it the day i got it coz that would have helped me make lovely mufflers for my friends and they would have loved it. so from now on i shall at least read thru the pattern, then judge it :). doesn't it look lovely with the KR web page back ground