It's all about the Birds!

Pictures from the swifts this last weekend, and a Finished Object at the end!! It's beautiful.




This is one of the hawks that was stalking these little swifts.
As it grew darker, they started spiraling into the chimney.










My Mystery Stole 3 is off of the needles as of Monday night!! I blocked it yesterday/today. I could not get the wing to block the way I wanted it to. The bind off in the pattern is too tight.

The theme ended up being Swan Lake, and this is the wing end. You can see the feathers, I think they are beautiful.


Cat's Paws like the ballet steps.










The stats on it. Grignasco MerinoSilk in Dove Gray from Woodland Woolworks. I might have used half of the ball, maybe. Size US 3 needles.

MS3 Meetup

Today some of the local Mystery Stole 3 knitters met up at Twisted a new yarn shop in town. I love this shop!! The gals are young, hip, and remember me by name when I come in. I will continue to drop in there when I can! Anyways, there were 7 stoles present every color and texture different. Mine is the light gray in front. That one on the back side on the right is PURPLE, and the one on the left is slightly variegated. They are all very pretty!!




We discussed the theme, which was revealed yesterday along with an interesting design element. I think it's pretty neat, but there are many who don't like it and will make their stole symmetrical. Oh you want to know what the theme is?




Swan Lake, and it has a wing as part of the stole. I can't fully picture it, but I think the wing section will be the right side of the stole and will come up over the left side. I may have it backwards and I may not understand it at all, but I am still going to do it.

Mail Call

I am going to leave it natural and just seal it. Kim wants to spin so bad!!! I better get to the hardware store today!







Clue 2 for MS3 was finished on Saturday evening. The red thread is approximately where this second clue started. It should go straight up from there, but maybe it's the way that I pinned it.

MS3 Clue 1 Done!!

I tried finishing Clue 1 last night and just couldn't. The eyes were blurred and crossed. I had 8 rows to go. When I got up this morning, I didn't even stop to look at the MS3 messages or download the new clue. I really wanted to finish this before starting Clue 2. 100 rows of lace design took me parts of 7 days. Clue 2 is only 50 rows, thank goodness. There's just under 7 hours to sign up, she closes at midnight EST.


Since Yarn Harlot posted on her blog about MS3, there have been hundreds upon hundreds of knitters joining the fray. We may easily reach 7000 members at closing time tonight.