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Here's my completed Ene:

Pattern: Ene's Scarf by Nancy Bush from Scarf Style
Yarn: Blackberry Ridge Lace Weight Silk Blend in Samarkand Blue, 2 Skeins, plus a tiny bit of a third skein
Needles: 4 mm/US 6 addi turbos
Start: 2-10-06
Finished: 3-3-06 (Included the blocking process, which took one day)
Finished size: Pre-blocking - 50" wide across the top, 29" from tip to top
After blocking - 66" across top, 33" from tip to top
Notes: I ran out of yarn with 7 rows more to knit. The final size of the shawl makes me think that I knitted this really loosely. I think I would go down a needle size next time I knit this. Unfortunately I was unable to win gold for the Knitting Olympics, but I'm so happy with the results. The shawl warms you up when you wear it.

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Posted by Sandy at 01:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Last night, I was well on my way to finishing Ene, then this:

ACK! I ran out of yarn with only 6 more rows of the chart to finish!

I guess I get a DNF next to my name. I hope everyone else fared better.

Posted by Sandy at 11:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I'm progressing on my Ene, but I feel like I'm running down the Poltergeist hallway that keeps extending and extending. This is a picture of the first two charts and all of one repeat of Chart 3.

I'm taking advantage of President's day holiday and re-runs of Project Runway and I'm hopefully going to get a bit more of Ene done.

Posted by Sandy at 03:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Here's progress on my Ene.

I wanted to get through all 22 rows of chart one by the end of this weekend, but only completed up to row 16. You can start to see the diamond pattern emerge. This is the fun part of knitting lace -- to see the pattern start to form on your fabric. Casting on was a bear, but I'm planning on smooth sailing from now on. (Crossed fingers and toes.)

Sadly, some of our Ene team has been Kwan'd (a la Michelle Kwan). I found out there are more Ene knitters: check them out on Mandella's sidebar.

Posted by Sandy at 09:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I waited to cast on for Ene until 8pm, the start of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremonies. (The opening ceremonies actually started an hour later after after all of NBC's mumbo jumbo.)

Neurotically counting stitches as I went, I finished casting on at 9:20pm. During the humanimation ski man.

I rewarded myself:

Two and a half hours later, this:

According to pattern, you cast on double stranded and drop one strand of yarn as you begin the body of the scarf. I had some problems with the double stranding and also I cast on too tight and the stitches were not moving along the needle smoothly. Argh!

I didn't want to go to bed without at least casting on for my project, so:

Needless to say, I'm kind of tired.

Posted by Sandy at 08:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

In preparation for the Olympics, I used the copier at work to blow up the charts.
Also, here's the first button I've ever made.

Ene Olympians are:
Leah
Mandella
Dyann
and me.

Because I'm a geek, I charted out the stitch count for the pattern. I also like to tick off the rows as I work.
Please feel free to use the chart and button. (Also note that you actually end up with 17 stitches at the last row of chart 4, not 19 as it says in the notes on page 31.)

For other resources, there's an Ene Ensemble and Scarf Style KAL. Lot's of good pictures of different Enes.

I hope everyone's still excited about the event!

Posted by Sandy at 09:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I just found out that at least two other Olympians will be knitting Ene's Scarf (really shawl with three charts and you have to cast on 375 stitches. ohmygosh!) Mandella and Leah are also knitting Ene. Let's go TEAM! WooHoo!

Posted by Sandy at 09:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Challenged by Yarn Harlot, I've signed up for this .

I plan on knitting Ene's Scarf for the games. By the way, have you seen the freaky little mascot?

Weird.

Posted by Sandy at 10:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Yesterday was a yarn bonanza: I also received this in the mail.

This is Blackberry Ridge laceweight silk blend in Samarkand Blue. So lovely.

I plan on knitting this:

I also ordered yarn samples and they sent me this:

Crazy!

Posted by Sandy at 08:57 AM | Permalink