don't go here, go there!

I've decided to continue to blog about my knitting over at my Wordpress blog. You can find me there:

Lilibeth's Garden

my first official FO in the cardi category

Even though I started my very first sweater over a year ago, a cable knit cardigan of all things, I only just finished my first one last week. It's a Scandinavian design from Drops Design. I'm partial to their designs, it might have something to do with the fact that they're free!

I have an embarrassingly large stash of New Zealand wool on cones for making my bags. One contains one of my favourite colours: violet, lavender, or whatever you want to call it. I HAD to see if I could make myself something out of it to wear. It's kinda stratchy and stiff and therefore not as "finished" looking as I'd prefer, but I'm satisfied.

Please excuse the narcissistic-like photos below, but they were taken for the purpose of posting on Ravelry where it's the standard to be fun and creative with your photos. I appreciate it when knitters put personality into showing off their creations.

If I was to do this pattern again, I'd use a softer wool, and make the section before the gathered bottom edge a little longer, so it goes under my boobs!!

PATTERN: 106-30 Short DROPS jacket in stocking stitch

YARN: New Zealand wool, light sport weight doubled, purchased on Ebay

NEEDLES: 4.5mm

MODIFICATIONS: Hardly a modification, but I did a 3-needle bind off on the shoulders.











Glazed pottery buttons with a touch of violet in the middle...poifect!

New Lilibeth's Garden blog

Considering the fact that Lilibeth's Garden has had a rebirth of sorts, I've started a new blog specifically dedicated to my new bags, as opposed to the subject of knitting. I'll post any personal knitting here, though that has been set aside for now. I have 2 sweaters that sit abandoned, poor things.

Lilibeth's Garden Blog

resurfacing

lilibeth's garden has lain dormant for many many months due to moving, and this thing called 'life'. something now is astir in the soil. seeds of ideas and images are slowly forming in the heart of the garden. the process is slow but unyielding. one cannot force growth. a little bit of sun and rain, and the rest is up to mother nature. may the garden become all that it's meant to be, and all that it longs to be.

buying a house

Things are finally coming together on the house front. You can read about it here.

SOLD!!!

The day we've been waiting for has finally arrived!! Last night our house was sold to a lovely couple who are very excited to be getting our house. Apparently another offer was coming in right after they made the offer, I guess the market is hot right now. But I'm happy for this couple, they said they knew they loved it as soon as they walked in the door. They had planned on buying their dream house in about 5 years and find some other house in the meantime. Then they found ours and skipped ahead to what they see as their dream spot. We shouldn't even know all this stuff, but Jon ended up meeting them when they had a question about the property markers.

It feels good to be leaving a house that we designed to someone who will really appreciate it. I hope they enjoy discovering that you can hear the ocean surf all year long when the bay decides to be noiser than usual.

We were all quite hyper last night, hardly slept, we're all too happy and relieved. We've had our house on the market off and on for the last 18 months!

I'm really busy making bags for a studio/shop in PEI, and that project has only just begun. Not much time for blogging these days. I'll be making bags between packing. Hoping for a quiet autumn though!

my first lace scarf

Here is a lace scarf I finished a few weeks ago, made from Noro Kureyon in colourway #188, at least I think that's right. Very pretty stuff.


That's pretty much it for now, I hope I haven't bored you too much!