Christmas Stockings

My goal is to have all homemade Christmas stockings for my family.  This is not a quick process.  I started to make the first stocking for Lex before Christmas in 2010.  The cabling was more difficult and time consuming than I expected and it was not completed in time for that Christmas.  The stocking was stuffed in a bag for over a year while I completed other projects.  I pulled it out again in January of this year, and three months later had a completed stocking.

This year Alayna learned how to  use a knitting loom.  While browsing Ravelry I found a pattern to make a Christmas stocking on her knitting loom.  After Thanksgiving Alayna picked out her yarn and began work on her stocking.  She learned new techniques.  She learned how to purl every other row to make a garter stitch edge that doesn't curl.  She learned how to turn a heel, which involves wrapping and turning stitches and e-wrapping backwards (for her).  All of this included following the directions in the pattern.

I love the stocking she created.  I am a proud mama.

Showing off - again

Yes, I knit another shawl. The Aquila. That is Latin for Eagle. It's something about eagle feathers on the edges, and water and the droplets on the water from the wings, I think. The instructions were in Finnish, but I knew enough about knitting to figure it out from the charts. It only took me one month!

Peacock Feathers

This is a brag post for me. I finished the shawl I have been knitting.

This is the whole shawl, almost. I couldn't quite get tip to tip, it is 88" wide.

"The Peacock Feathers Shawl is a stylized version of a peacock's tail in full display, from the small feathers at the top of the peacock's back, down to the dramatic sweep of the tail."

Here is the tail feather.

Here are some side feathers.

Golly, pictures just don't do it justice. Probably due to my camera and lack of skills with it. I promise it is divine in real life.