Egyptian Crescent

A new pattern now available from Ravelry and my website:

A luxurious crescent shawl inspired by the opulence of ancient Egyptian jewelry.
The color scheme of gold and precious stones is echoed in dibadu’s handpainted 100% silk yarn, Seda Encantada.
The yarn is held double; each color comes in two 50g skeins of slightly different colorways, adding depth and richness when held together.
Knit with three colors: 094 red, 116 yellow and 124 blue. The yarn is available from dibadu.de

Some scenes from around Dublin:

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everybody, and thanks for all your visits and comments in 2016!

Holiday walks with Donnie:

a rock:

a squirrel:

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hello

sky:

seabird:

sea:

shawl with stacked decreases:

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Holiday

I’ve been away – some photos –
Munich:

Egypt Museum, Munich:

Museum of Five Continents:

weaving from Myanmar:

South America:


Innsbruck royalty:



Tyrolean folk museum:


knitting near Innsbruck:

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last of Connemara

lakeside sunset:

seaside colours:

some knitting:

wildlife painting at the Burren Perfumery:

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teaching, etc.

Rosemary and her friends at the Constant Knitter in Francis Street, Dublin have been encouraging me to try some teaching – a couple of workshops are lined up.
The first (23 Feb) is full up, so there will be a second on the 23rd March.
The workshops will look at colour in knitting.
I’ll be showing a selection of knitlab swatches and talking about colour inspiration and techniques, and then there will be a knitting session to try out some of the techniques.

I noticed love2knitnpurl’s mesmerising Shetland Ruffles on Ravelry this morning:

Still working on pdf, photos and web page details for the pleats scarf/wrap pattern:

The face of knitlab appears again –
the worried expression can be interpreted as “where’s that treat you promised??”

ponds:

Winter sunset:

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iphone photos

zoom captures light passing through an abandoned web:

zoom in low lighting creates soft textures:

maximum zoom creates painterly pixelation:

Killiney beach – some of these photos taken with the Chrome filter, which exaggerates colours and gives a slightly metallic look:

Mini in the pond with Chrome filter:

new pattern coming soon:

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Cambridge

Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology:

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pictures of knitting & flowers & Mini

New version of Camino Diagonals:

Sunday coffee:

Various trips to the park:




Where’s dinner:

Wall flowers outside the Botanic Gardens:

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May colours

Weathered hoardings:





Second version of new pattern (a third is blocking):

Poppy suffering effects of awful weather:

Howth – a seal swimming out to greet a boat:


spot the dog:

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