Life LackaDaisiCal

A link to a blog that I read.....that has a link to something quite astonishing on a blog that she reads......click thru......very appropraite for today being Halloween I think LOL! YorkSett Arts and Crafts: Some people clearly have lots of time ....

Anastasiya has a few motifs that use 3 yarns per row - like the very first motif after the ribbing!  It took me a while to get my head around how to do this.....as usual with all things, there are many ways you can handle 3 strands per row, and here are a few ways I've tried. The main thing, as in all stranding, is to set the position of your yarns, and keep them that way Background shade - top Pattern shade - bottom (2 shades per row - middle on rows with 3 shades per row) Accent shade - always along the bottom. I've tried to show different techniques of stranding 3 shades per row to help you customize your own personal stranding style. BACKGROUND AND PATTERN shades held in the right hand - ACCENT shade in the left: BACKGROUND in the right, PATTERN in the left, with the ACCENT shade being worked with the left hand: Holding all three shades in the right hand - BACKGROUND, PATTERN and ACCENT: Holding the BACKGROUND shade in the Right, the PATTERN shade in the left, the ACCENT sh...

My web site Sheeweknits.com is no longer active.  I'd asked for it to be shut down back in June.....but for some reason it was still up and running until yesterday.  Today, it is gone, finished, shut down. After all, She Ewe Knits was my yarn business name......and I don't sell yarn any more. So I'll post any new design info here on my blog on Shades of Shetland, and add it to the page "My Design Portfolio" here also.  On this page there are links of where to get each pattern (where possible). Any design offered by pdf will be available here and thru my Ravelry store .   You don't have to be a member of Ravelry to view this page. From my Ravelry shop page you can also see photos that knitters have posted of projects using my patterns - just click on the link under each photo where it says the number of projects - this is where they link any project listed in Ravelry that use this pattern.  You do have to be a Ravelry member to do this - it's free and easy ...

You can hardly find the path for the leaves....this was last Friday - absolutely gorgeous day for a walk.  Lackie met his first horses on the trail - unfortunately I didn't get a photo of this meeting - maybe next time. The first batch of mincemeat tarts -- DH has a sweet tooth, and when he found a jar of mincemeat in the cupboard, well, we just had to have tarts.  (Fortunately I had pre-made tart shells in the freezer - and a full-size pie shell, so while not home made -- they were a product of my kitchen.....if you know what I mean.....this is a salute to our food labelling up here in Canada......

I've been so excited knitting Anastasiya from Rowan 48 - loved the striped ribbing, but the 3 colours per row plaid motif just about drove me crazy!  I'm on to regular old 2 colours per row stranding now - so things are moving along really well.  Oh oh, some more plaid is coming up!  Wish me luck!