This time of year it seems the calendar starts to fly by. Wasn't it just hot as blazes? Now the air is cool and crisp with curls of woodsmoke rising from chimneys, mornings are frosty and I'm in the mood for warm, woolie things to wear. I've winnowed down my works-in-progress (WIP's), but still have a lot going on.
This morning I went to one of my favorite nearby parks and took this photo.
The silvery-frosted leaves and berries against the backdrop of golds, greens and oranges made me want to get stitching! I went home and dug through my stash to find several candidates but the winner was, hands down, a skein of Noro Kureyon Sock yarn in colorway S242.
It seems Eisaku Noro must have a penchant for these same shades of Autumn as I have.
I've used the Kureyon Sock to start a crocheted shawlette called Elise Shawl by designer Evan Plevinski. This photo shows his shawl, mine is shown in the photos above and at the top of the post.
After the set-up rows, the pattern is a simple two-row repeat worked from the neck down, using only basic crochet stitches like double and triple crochet. I'm working it with a US size I hook. Fast and fun so far!
Also on my needles are a gazillion prototypes for a hat to match my Lavande neckwarmer pattern,
a cardigan, from another designer, left over from my vacation (more details when I have photos to share) and a couple of versions of this pattern project.
I'm also playing around with yarns for a variation on the Greyhaven cowl. And I am excited to announce...
...that Greyhaven was voted as the November knitalong free pattern project for the Ravelry Cowls group! Thanks to everyone who voted for this pattern. By the way, I uploaded a new version of the pattern on November 1st, 2010, so if you downloaded one before that date, go ahead and grab a new one.
This cowl KAL will be going on all month, so it's not too late to join if you still want to. Some members have already completed multiple versions and are still casting on for more, many looking ahead to making holiday gifts.
As for KAL's, the Ravelry Anthropologie group Brandywine Falls KAL will continue for quite awhile, so there's plenty of time to join in on that one too.
This week when I stopped at the post office to pick up my mail, I had a surprise package waiting from my very talented, Chicago-based Ravelry buddy Loren (Twisted1 on Ravelry). It contained some awesome birthday goodies including cute project gift tags, a Vogue stitch pattern calendar, and most especially this gorgeous scarf she knit for me!
Loren has been working a lot lately with Jane Thornley's amazing tutorials using color and texture in multiple yarns, and designed this scarf herself and titled it Ephemera. Thank you so much Loren, I love it! You're so thoughtful!
Happy stitching everyone!
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