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Progress and Plans (Part 2)

February 10th, 2007

Christmas green

This arrived in the mail today, all the way from Uruguay. It is 880 yards of laceweight wool from handpaintedyarn.com in the Christmas green colorway.

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Victorian Lace Today I originally started this blog to keep me focused and on track with my knitting projects, and I found that it does work well for me. I stay focused on finishing the project I started before getting carried away with too many projects at a time. So I am still working on my Jade Sapphire shawl, and making decent progress. I took about a week off from it and worked on a pair of socks (the weather has been so cold!) and to break up the monotony of knitting basically a double wide lace scarf. It is looking great, and I cannot wait until it is finished because…

…I have more lace projects planned.

Since getting Victorian Lace Today for Christmas, I have used some of my Christmas money to purchase lace weight yarn. (Would one call that re-stashing, rather than de-stashing?) But, every purchase I have made is already designated to be a particular project, so I am not collecting stash for stash’s sake. This should keep me quite busy for a while to come and I should not (hopefully) be tempted to purchase other yarn. I now just have to “budget” my yarn and make it last for quite a while. Here are some of the projects I have planned:

Sangria

ruby slippers

cranberry

I have one more lace yarn on the way, and I will post about that one when it arrives.

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Sangria

February 6th, 2007

I scored a hank of this beautiful handpainted laceweight merino from Spunky Eclectic yesterday. I cannot wait for it to arrive. I just love the mix of burgundy and orange…the colors look perfect for a cheery spring shawl!

Sangria