v-allknit

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 )