Amy Artisan

In the 2006 Knitting Olympics Lace event is Amy Artisan with The Capri Shawl!

(Pardon the “lack of natural light” pictures - when the weather is warmer I may post some pictures of Capri “in action” outside.)
The Details…
Pattern: Capri Shawl from Morehouse Farms
Yarn: Aqua Morehouse Merino Lace
Needles: Brittany Birch - US10 - 14″
Cast On: [...]

Whew! Capri is successfully off the needles at 2:30 PM. This is the second time today that I finished the shawl. Around 9:30 this morning I finished binding off (with just a bit of yarn leftover) & when I went to stretch the shawl out along the bind off edge I heard a horrible sound [...]

I had great plans for making a lot of progress on Capri last night. I got started right away & noticed that my stitch counter seemed to show more middle stitches than I thought I had completed on Tuesday. Did I stop & do a physical count of stitches? Oh no, that would be too [...]

My first reaction to The Yarn Harlot’s call to “Citius, Alitius Fortius” was a bit of a chuckle. I have fond memories of Olympic crafting occuring in our house when I was growing up - specifically my Dad needlepointing. (A bit of history…my dad learned to needlepoint in the ’70s when he was on missile [...]

Thankfully the Knitting Olympics are not a “one chance & you’re out” type of event!
I continued to make progress on Saturday with the Capri Shawl. Around noon on Sunday when I started to add the 2nd triangle pattern into the shawl I discovered that I had messed up the 1st triangle. Since I want [...]