Filatura di Crosa Trilly

Spring cleaning

For once I have a week or two in between projects:  I'm waiting for a yarn delivery so I can start my next one.  In the meantime I've finally been able to do some required ripping. 


Butterfly wings

3_mar_003_webNot much action on my Wyvern Wrap lately, and here is the reason:  (see swatch).  I had ordered a couple of different colors of RYC Cashsoft DK once I


Progress on Wyvern

15_feb_003_webNow that I've completed several deadline projects, I can get back to work on Wyvern.   I've finished both fronts and joined them to start on the back.  I finished the right front first and blocked it to make sure my gauge was on, b


Hurry up and wait

After finding out last week that Interweave Knits accepted a couple of my design proposals for their Summer 2008 issue, AND that I have about 6 weeks to knit both samples and write up the patterns, I realized that I had better get a move on to have any hope of finishing my Wyvern Wrap before the yarn for the IK samples arrives.  So knit away I did...and it became quite clear after I finish


Working on my Wyvern

7_nov_003_web The right front of my Wyvern Wrap (size small) has been growing at a good clip; I'm almost finished with the side shaping increases, and soon will cast on stitches for the right sleeve.  I'm having a nagging fear that the sleeve, which is essentially a drop slee


A cheap trick

I just realized that my first blogiversary is coming up at the end of the month.  Last November, I had no idea I would be living in Italy a year later!  Anyway, here are my first, second and


What next?

I truly am pleased with how the Chinese Lace Pullover turned out--and now, it's time to move on.  Not that I haven't done so--the projects have been lining up--but at the moment I have five (5!) non-bloggable ones hanging around:  an unacceptable situation.  If the non-bloggables all get rejected by the various editors considering them, I will suddenly have a wealth of material t