Mothers Love - The Wings Series

Предварительная растяжка, снятие оката, распушка. тнуть сильно их недьз, сегодня как раз под 40+ будет а на солнце и того больше. Для этого дела самое оно. Вот она пошла уже на ветерке с утра

окат

 снимается окат на ролу. она не как на барабане, ее надо ставить на 2-х метровую раму потом, там ей еше сентиметров 7 дать надо будет.

May update. 3 patterns.

May update is 3 new patterns

Russian Empire got 2 released:

Three Sisters. Vintage - Series of 3 gossamers representing 3 generations, 3 sisters, youth, mother and a senior.3-rd pattern in the series is released.

Second pattern - St.George Ribbon - Георгиевская Ленточка

Спеуиальная бессрочная акция Георгиевскаяя ленточка описана на странице сзхемы. Описание предоставляется бесплатно членам семей участников Великой Отечественной Войны, а так же если изелие преднозначено для членов семей участников войны. Ныне живущих, не вернувшихся, уже почивших - все почитаются одинаково в настоящей акуии. Напишите мне личное сообщение и в рамках акуии можно получить схему бесплатно.

3-rd pattern is another warm shawl set. Royal lace baby blanket  2015

May is a turbulent time. Never was different. There were some interesting wild visitors - wild ducks pair, they were hanging around for a while

good that tender plants are in, because... 

we got snow, not too badly frozen so but enough to get all the tender plants right there.

before

and after :)

o yeah, just something we live with and go on

Holidays, food, woolie winder, DD and other stuff

Holiday food. Fish. salmon, dover sole, crab, vegetables (saute) and panco, Rolled, tied, fumet and resling and of it goes to cook

Simple whole salmon steamed in fish fumet (fish stock)  lemon and herbs

Spinning rig (reeves lazy kate fit particular bobbins, one from matchless fits more different brands ok)

woolie winder on Shacht reeves.. 4 ply yarn (3 wool one goat down)'

 close ups in holiday light are not that great, in day light a little better so (below)

 that's where I park yarn when I ply and change bobbins

 in morning sun light it changes color

 close to it's real color and a it of rustic texture.

 Holiday tree.

Santa and Father Frost .

Summer garden in lace

It's pleasant to have good rain afternoon in our climate. And amazingly chilly night follows for our climate, chilly enough to throw on a small shawl, about ... slightly below +20C. A bit of wind gives it just enough...
Small summer shawls...
I'm preparing 4 to release because as usual I can not pick one, so all 4 will go, I was asked to release all of them already.

Small shawls that were released recently:

It’s a leftie. Orenburg lace sampler 4 in 1
this is 4 in one Orenburg patterns sampler.
base 'leftie' triangle
diagonals stripes pattern,
peas stripes patter
mixed sampler like one below pattern

the set includes 17 different patterns (14 in mix and match set). One can make quite a lot of different shawls for gifts ad what else.

Long promised Blooming garden bactus 

 And snowflakes, can not be without that :)
Snowflake bactus 

Large snowflake bactus 

From snow to blossoms is just a step. The 3 are sister patterns. It's like out volatile spring one bay flowers bloom another the snow comes once again. we can see it even early summer at times.

on the garden a bit later. was busy a bit, so will post an update.

What's coming in the shawl land? Youth. Flowers.

Orenburg museum exhibition. KAL Russian way

Many if you know that I keep a large backlog of patterns, many of them I’ll have no time in my life to make myself. And many told me, show your Russian empire. Why did I hold on that? Because to get to the shawl like that one needs to be trained and have the hand, gauge, yarn set to get to one of these, and the knitting school needs to be beneficial to get on 1000+ size in fine gauges. And be a dino of sorts when folk stopped doing it because of financial reason was not too much fun to think of it either… royal lace of Russia was gone. I mean it. “WAS”. Because I have now materials and what is most important people to pass this on. It is difficult for me to bring the past of revolution and red terror times.
This is how our conversation with Ekaterina Godovova has started, better to say it was with Irina Bushuhina from Orenburg museum first.This is Russian Empire. the shawl is 3-color or white. over 1000 stitches a row. and if you can do something like that and make it in 2m range I sure want to talk to you as well, because … there are not many of folk has left who are capable of making royal lace of Russia. This shawl is our KAL with Ekaterina this year.

So there was year long KAL Orenburg way going on that I was not talking about. Exhibition in Orenburg museum has opened on 7-th. same day as winter Olympic games :)
Ekaterina and I had a bit of year long KAL. And then she and after that museum folk banged “ok, nuf hiding, send your shawl our way, would you”. So here it is, Cranes went abroad with another stole, bunch of patterns went in form of charts. Entire 4 seasons series in presented on this exhibition. Her students work when she taught at Orenburg school of Arts. She is Olga Fedorova successor. When we talk about Olga students, here is the level of work and that’s how such level represents itself on Orenburg museum level.

this is 4 seasons Autumn in 2 colors

Here is summer in white

and there is a lot more, first floor of the museum is full of it.
When I get feedback like that, I’m humbled
“Лиля, привет! С посылкой все нормально. немного помятая, работы целые. Скажу больше. Мне как - то не ловко за свои работы. Очень бисерная вязка.Ты умница!!! Мне очень приятно от нашего знакомства. Знаешь: ты наверное меня еще многому можешь научить. Я не могу подобрать слов,чтобы описать свои впечатления по поводу твоих работ. белый платок просто вызывает восхищение. А серый палантин : он по плотности вязание крупнее моей вязки. Белый же плотнее моей. в общем я в шоке хорошем и добром , положительном шоке. МОЛОДЕЦ!!!!!!!”

 they put my stuff in masters category. in glass case.
this shawl is 1/4 of Russian Empire. My mother does not like Order of St. George as much as softer cranes version.
Russian empire has Russian royalty regalia and Russian military Orders and medals coded on it.

When Valentina Fedorova is asking to have photo of my work, I’m humbled.
Valentina Fedorova and Roza Gumerova  were the speakers at the exhibition opening

We do not have all the photos all together. but there are some on internet to see, for example doll collection. I did send these dolls from USA and they got new outfits :)
this and more. there is over dozen of them.

Here is a little work video. lace makers get cuts doing household tasks just like everyone else.
Knitting speed falls in this case. there are some kinds of tape that make it more manageable. 'New skin' aka bf6 I do not like that much as it does not stop bleeding and it can end up on white which is not good.
Shawl in the video in work is Cranes. It's 1/4 of Russian Empire. So that's a bit of an answer to the question how do  I knit something like that.