Some progress on my project

I haven't been happy with the way my scarf looked - it was too sloppy - so I frogged it last night and started again. It's vine lace bordered with seed stitch - appropriate, don't you think? A lovely plant, growing in the sun, surrounded by seeds for more growth...


I'm reading Anne of the Island and loving every page...

Cheater Pants & A Little Confused

Confession: I totally whipped through Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside - the January books - last week. Guess I had some time on my hands.

That said, those two books have TONS of knitting and crochet references; much more than the previous 4 or 5 books. Lots of socks. Lots and lots of socks. Especiallly in Rilla, which is set during WWI.

So I cast on a new sock last night and those will be my AOGG project for January. But I'm not knitting a plain grey Army sock. I'm using the purple/blue yarn I got from Celena during the last Hand-Dyed Yarn Swap, and I'm thinking something lacy.

I have a cultural question, but I'll go home and check the books again first.

And when did Marilla die? Timewise, it should have been during Anne of Ingleside, but I don't remember reading about it this time, although I think I read it before when I read these books??? I don't think I have been reading abridged editions.

WWAD **

I just ripped the scarf I started, and I'm starting it again in a "little leaf" lace stitch. The vine lace was pretty, but chaotic in a variegated yarn. Variegated needs to have some areas that aren't being slipped or knitted together, I think. So far, the new stitch is more satisfactory - I'll photograph it if I continue to like it.

My struggle with finding a pattern is very un-Anne-like, isn't it? She'd have picked something and just plunged ahead with great joy. (But Marilla would have been there to advise.)


**What Would Anne Do?

Lace for Anne

Although I still plan to knit mittens, I have decided that this scarf will also be a project for Anne.

• "Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered. "What nice dreams they must have." The scarf will the her night sky, and wouldn't she love some lace.....

Details are on my blog -

My little intro....

So last night i get a message on myspace, with a picture of one of your buttons for this project. My friend just said... "I am not sure what a knit-a-long is, but you are the only anne fan I know that knits".... Thank god for google! I have found you guys and I am sooooo excited.

I first started reading the books in 4th grade, on a rainy day at my grandma's house. My grandmother was kind enough to give me her entire series when I graduated high school years later. They sit on the shelf and look pretty, bc I don't want to over read them. As I would like to pass them onto my daughter. I tend to revisit the series, not always all of the books, at least once a year. I read Anne of Green Gables, and Avonlea to my pregnant tummy over 2 years ago. And have read her chapters out of both since she was born.

Being a mom of a toddler limits my knitting and reading time. Thus I was very excited to find the free download of the e-books. I don't have to turn pages then... I figure as long as i am knitting something stocknette in the round. I should not "fall into the depths of dispare", at least not over a knitting project.