Tag Archives: Lavender Fields shawl

My knitting year in review

Posted on December 29, 2011 by natalie

This year was a fun and productive one for my knitting. Selling the house & moving in the middle of the year put a little added pressure on meeting my deadlines, but it all worked out. First I came out … Continue reading →

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Sunflower Field Shawl/ Summer in Provence e-book ready available!

Posted on June 24, 2011 by natalie

The Sunflower Field Shawl is the second in a series of shawls inspired by fields in France. One of the sights that you see in the Tour de France as the cyclists whip by are fields of sunflowers beaming at … Continue reading →

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Show and tell

Posted on April 27, 2011 by natalie

I had a great time last night speaking to the Lanark County Knitting Guild in Almonte. It was amazing to me how much room all my knits took up. I stuffed my usual weekend away bag full of them! It … Continue reading →

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Lavender Fields is up!

Posted on April 20, 2011 by natalie

Yay! Thanks to the help of some wonderful test knitters, I was able to get my Lavender Fields pattern up on Ravelry late last night. The PDF has been prettified and it’s ready to go. You can knit this shawl … Continue reading →

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And now in pink…

Posted on April 15, 2011 by natalie

No sooner was my purple Lavender Fields shawl of the previous post off the needles than I’d already cast on for a pink one. This time I used worsted weight yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca in Fuschia. I bought it at … Continue reading →

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Lavender Fields – blocked & flying

Posted on April 13, 2011 by natalie

When I showed you the little peek of the Lavender Fields shawl prototype last week I didn’t give you any visuals to explain the inspiration. Here’s a field of lavender, showing the rounded rows. The main body of the shawl … Continue reading →

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Multiple levels of procrastination

Posted on April 8, 2011 by natalie

There hasn’t been a whole lot of knitting content on the blog lately, but I have been knitting. I’ve been knitting and procrastinating by doing spinning and knitting other things. I’ve been working on a couple of new designs. One’s … Continue reading →

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