As promised in my last post, a free pattern for this luscious lace scarf. If you find any discrepancies or inaccuracies in the pattern, please do let me know. It is written, not charted, and lends itself to different weights of yarn and needle sizes. The trickiest part of the pattern is the “knit three together” — don’t [...]
Hot off the needles is this lace scarf that is just the most amazingly indulgent angora luxury. I’ll write up the pattern in a day or two and post it here as a freebie (I’ll link to it in Ravelry, too). Meanwhile, the scarf itself is for sale on Etsy. The lace pattern is a [...]
This sock has fairly subdued patterning and I think a lot of men would be ok with it. My own man prefers his socks plain and dim, er, dark. This pattern is a more interesting knit than endless stockinette. It’s free, and you can download the PDF here. Please let me know if there are [...]
Please take a look at my other blog –I’m putting some small artworks up for sale to benefit the Red Cross’s Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund, and offering free shipping for those items and any others ordered at the same time. When something so monumentally awful happens, it’s easy to feel helpless. I’d like to [...]
Yesterday was such a lovely warm, sunny afternoon. I went to visit my mom, and couldn’t resist trying to capture an image of these crocuses and snowdrops in the bright sunshine. Blown highlights, but I like the picture anyway. Spring is definitely almost here, and after a dull Lower Mainland winter, I’m ready for it!
Maia was the oldest of the seven sisters known as the Pleiades (these days you can see the sisters in the night sky above and right of Orion the Hunter, if you’re in the northern hemisphere). Maia was the most beautiful of the sisters and lived quietly in a cave in the Arcadian mountains. These [...]
As promised, a new sock pattern: “Spring Showers”. I think these socks are perfect for this time of year — warm enough to be cozy, but a little lacy so you can show them off as the weather becomes more Spring-like (and it *is* going to become more Spring-like, right?). This pattern uses about 400 [...]
What to do when one’s attention runs this way and that? Start a new blog, I think. So, I have. My paintings and other art are blogged about here: www.NicoleOkun.com. My travels are blogged about here: www.ArtfulVagabonds.com (have been snugly holed up for a few months, though, so no updates there for a bit). Now, [...]
Followers of Frank and my travel blog, Artful Vagabonds, know that we’re currently in Louisiana, near Saint Martinville which is on the edge of the Mississippi wetlands. Spring is making itself evident here with fields and fields of wildflowers, and blooming wisteria, azaleas and camellias. It’s wonderful to see the honey bees working the flowers [...]
Now that my life is getting more settled again, it’s time to get back to blogging. Since I last wrote, we moved out of the house and have finally hit the road in our new home. Frank and I have a travelblog set up at artfulvagabonds where we’ll put most of the travel stuff. I’ll [...]
