Monday, November 03, 2008

projects on needles

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.

my bead work

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.

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