Beads!
The beads I ordered for the Shoalwater Shawl arrived yesterday (uh, FYI: that's basically overnight). This is what they look like:
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I'll be using the beads on the bottom instead of the picot cast off. I tried this shawl on at The Yarn Gallery (in Reading, PA)* where they had used beads on their's. It added a great drape to the shawl. (let me also say that I am a complete sucker for shop models. If a shop has a beautiful sweater knit up and on display, I will leave with pattern and yarn for that project... unless I already have it, like the Shoalwater Shawl... however, I did leave with yarn for the shawl, I just decided to use the Joslyn's Fiber Farm instead).
So that's more motivation to keep on working on the shawl!!!
However, I am really antsy to get to work on Fawne... I'm not sure I can wait until the start of the Tour! I've been watching pro cycling for about 5 or 6 years now (I was one of those people that even watched the Giro and the Vuelta when they used to broadcast it live here in the states). I can thank watching the Tour de France as one of the best weight loss periods... every year I get motivated and increase my workouts. (here's my 2004 fitness blog entry).
Oh, and Debby: Matt thinks I'm already participating in cycing. He's says I'm the best soigneur ever! As I do it all: laundry, cooking/nutritional evaluation, leg massage, water bottle hand offs! (however, I don't do bike repairs... that's best left to the professionals). Since the last bike that I was on used backword pedeling as it's brakes (Matt says I should just call it a fixed gear... it's more impressive) I don't think I'm quite ready to join the peleton. So while I stick with a nice stationary bike (or rather Yourself!Fitness is my main workout now), I leave the road riding to Matt!
*West Reading not only has a nice yarn shop, but one block down is a chocolate shop to die for. Think of your favorite coffee house, but with chocolate. They have gourmet chocolates and truffles as well as specialty hot chocolates. All I can say is wow.
2 Comments:
I am photographer and ripped-kit-seamstress. :) I don't mind the road riding but not at the speeds the guys race at! Wouldn't it be great if we could knit at 30+ miles per hour???
I am a sucker for shop models, too. I have one sweater pattern/yarn waiting from a YS that recently closed up. I had to have it, went home and swatched it and then never started it. I keep looking at the pattern and know that someday I will knit it. It has been years and I still want it. Just wish I had more time.
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