Do you sometimes look back at the way you’ve travelled to get to where you are now? Think about all the many different roads, sand paths, ally ways, cramped busy city streets you took. I thought about that a lot while working on this shawl. […]
Tag: Shawls
Theme and Variation
It’s been a while hasn’t it? There is of course the usual stuff, what with the start of the academic year, me taking on more courses, and the inevitable arrival of the midterms. Like a lot of you I’ve been trying to make sense of […]
Finally Hansel
Okay, so I may have hinted at finishing this hap a few times before, and I might have been promising to take pictures of it for over a month, but it’s just very uncomfortable to take photographs of The One Shawl to Rule them All/The […]
What’s happening next?
“Never again.”. A four day and 200 kilometre long walk has just finished in my home town. According to a lady on the bus, a local newspaper had polled that 70% of those who crossed the finish line of this monster marathon swore to never […]
Shilasdair Shawlette
When I went to Scotland last year I brought home some great yarn gifts to myself. Some have been knitted up already, others are still waiting in the yarn treasury for their turn. However, I did not only bring yarn back for myself. I brought […]
Follow Your Arrow II Finished
The shawl is done! I knitted the last clue in the lighter blue, so as to make clue four and five one continuous piece. In the end I have a shawl all made up out of B clues. I choose each clue based on what […]
Follow Your Arrow Clue IV
(fellow arrow knitters: there will be spoilers in this post so click away if you don’t want to see them!) The end is in sight! The last clue is in, and I hope to choose and knit on the final clue tonight.But first I have […]
Follow Your Arrow Clue III
(fellow arrow knitters: there will be spoilers in this post so click away if you don’t want to see them!) Another week, another piece added to my mystery shawl! Clue three is my favourite clue thus far. Making the arrows was a lot of fun […]
Follow Your Arrow Clue II
(fellow arrow knitters: there will be spoilers in this post so click away if you don’t want to see them!) Another week has passed and another clue has been knitted! After I finished my last exam on Thursday, I grabbed the project and started working […]
Follow Your Arrow: Clue 1
(fellow arrow knitters: there will be spoilers in this post so click away if you don’t want to see them!) Time to report on my shawl progress! A lot has been going on this week, but in between studying, making exams and celebrating my boyfriend’s […]