Tokyu Wisp

Tokyu Wisp is done and I’m relieved! The stitch pattern is easy, but slow going, making it rather tedious after a while. Even so, it makes a pretty scarf. Details Pattern: Wisp by Cheryl Niamath Yarn: acrylic, mohair blend from Tokyu Hands, Tokyo, Japan Needles: 5.0 mm / US 8 Finishing two projects in a [...]

Read Full Post »

Back To Reality

It’s hard to believe we’ve been back from Kaua’i for two weeks; I miss it.  Everywhere I looked there was something beautiful to marvel at and it’s a great place to kick back and just relax. The weather at home has been typical of a Pacific Northwest spring: cold, cloudy and rainy.  To ease back [...]

Read Full Post »

They’re coming and going around here…

We finally bit the bullet and bought a real stove and ditched our GE Profile gas stove. The old one was okay, if you didn’t mind pretending to cook with gas, because it’s performance was slightly better than electric. It all came about with watching last season’s Dancing With The Stars (which starts Season 10 [...]

Read Full Post »

Wisp Completed

Here’s Wisp completed, and I’m pretty happy with it. The super light Habu silk mohair blend yarn is rather dreamy and makes the scarf incredibly light. The color is funky in the first photo because I played with the image, since the scarf looked like a blur of pink mohair due to light reflecting off [...]

Read Full Post »

Pink Lace Confessions

It’s 5 a.m. and I’ve been up since 3. G-man (poor kid, we could’ve chosen Sweetie or some other term of endearment for the nickname of our son) has croup and I went to check in to on him and haven’t been able to go back to sleep. I REALLY like my sleep. Sleep is [...]

Read Full Post »

Anticipation

I went weak in the knees last week when I saw Fluffbuff’s latest finished item, Wisp, and had to give in and, oh, so uncreatively copy her. I’m like that though: in most cases when I see something I like 100%, I just have to make it, right down to the color used. I guess [...]

Read Full Post »