Frostrosen Take Two

Yesterday my mom and I took a drive up the North Shore of Lake Superior. On the way up, we could see people walking on the frozen lake and decided to stop at Brighton Beach and have a look around. The shore was lined with huge chunks of blue ice and the ice over the lake was so perfectly clear you could see straight down to all of the boulders and rocks on the bottom of the lake. If the weather permits and the ice hasn't drifted I'm hoping to go skating on it next weekend!

After checking out the ice we went to Nokomis for lunch. Neither of us had been there and it was a fabulous experience. The windows provide a beautiful view of the lake from every table and the food was amazing. After lunch we went to Playing With Yarn in Knife River. My mom got a pattern and some yarn to make some cute thrummed mittens (I've never done anything like that before, it looks interesting) and I got some Rauma Finullgarn to start a new pair of mittens. I've had mittens on my mind for months but I didn't know how much or what to buy for any other patterns I have so I picked up some red and white to make another pair of Frostrosen mittens, this time for myself.

I started them yesterday and I'm having a tiny bit of trouble with the tension (probably should have made a gauge swatch) since I really haven't done much color knitting. It's not too bad though, and I love the red and white together.

Ene's Scarf

Pattern: Ene's Scarf from Scarf Style
Yarn: Blackberry Ridge Lace Weight Silk Blend (2 skeins)
Needles: Denise Size 7



I completed Ene's scarf about two weeks ago and finally blocked it this week. I have always hated blocking, but with this project I finally realized what blocking can really do. I was a little disappointed in how small the scarf turned out, but in blocking it transformed into something really lovely and it easily stretched to the proper size. The yarn is luxurious, very soft and warm and inexpensive. Below is a detail of the bottom edge leading to the center point.



I want to wear her out of the house, especially with how bitterly cold it has been here, but I have a strange and irrational fear that the minute I do she will come unblocked or be ruined somehow. Maybe it's because I've never knit a lace project of this magnitude. I'm finding that I love to do lace work, I think it's becoming my favorite. It's relatively stress free and the results are almost always beautiful and elegant. I love cables and other textures as well, and I think color knitting is the most impressive, but lace just seems to fit for me.