Monday, June 09, 2008

I FINISHED ICARUS!!! I can't believe it, but I did it! This was such a growing experience! Thank you Miriam, for such a wonderful pattern!

Ravelry Page
Yarn - Crystal Palace Yarns Kid Merino
How much? - 4 skeins = 960.0 yards (877.8m)
Colorway - 4670 Lot: E0065348
Needles - US 3 / 3.25 mm
Purchased at - The Summer Gallery (Chautauqua Institute)

Started: August 2007
Finished: June 6, 2008














Wednesday, April 09, 2008


Icarus Shawl, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 24th April 2007
Finished: 03rd April 2008
Needles: 3.5 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace circs
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace-weight, 100% superwash merino, 300g Hank (530 m / 100 g), colour: "Poison No. 5"
Pattern: "Icarus" by Miriam Felton from Interweave Knit Summer 2006

"Nam ponit in ordine pennas a minima coeptas, longam breviore sequenti,ut clivo crevisse putes...postquam manus ultima coepto imposita est, geminas opifex libravit in alas ipse suum corpus motaque pependit in aura; instruit et natum 'medio' que 'ut limite curras, Icare,' ait 'moneo, ne, si demissior ibis, unda gravet pennas, si celsior, ignis adurat: inter utrumque vola. (...)

...cum puer audaci coepit guadere volatu deseruitque ducem caelique cupidine tractus altius egit iter. Rapidi vicinia solis mollit odoratas, pennarum vincula, ceras; tabuerant cerae: nudos quatit ille lacertos, remigioque carens non ullas percipit auras, oraque caerulea patrium clamantia nomen excipiuntur aqua, quae nomen traxit ab illo. (...)

At pater infelix, nec iam pater, 'Icare,' dixit, 'Icare,' dixit 'ubi es? Qua te regione requiram?'

'Icare' dicebat: pennas aspexit in unis devovitque suas artes corpusque sepulcro condidit, et tellus a nomine dicta sepulti."


Finally, it's finished! I think that it's really beautiful. Even though knitting the body was tedious and boring, but the result was well worth it. Now I have to pack it up and send it off to my mum for her birthday.

I went to do the photoshoot yesterday and took about 30 photos. They all turned out so great that it was hard to choose. So, I picked out a lot of them. Hope you like them.

I chose some passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses "Daedalus and Icarus" and posted it above. If you want to read the translation, you can find it here.

Photos are taken at Königsplatz.

Here are some selections of the photos. You can find the rest of them here.


Icarus Shawl, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.


Icarus Shawl, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.


Icarus Shawl, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Current Mood: Good

Thursday, April 03, 2008

"Icare, ubi es? Qua te regione requiram?" [69:366, 03.04.2008]

Started: 24th April 2007
Finished: 03rd April 2008
Needles: 3.5 mm / 80 cm Addi Lace circs
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace-weight, 100% superwash merino, 300g Hank (530 m / 100 g), colour: "Poison No. 5"
Pattern: "Icarus" by Miriam Felton from Interweave Knit Summer 2006

More to come. ;-)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Its about damn time i found my cord to my digi...

Without further ado my Icarus!







its up for raffle for charity. if you are intersted go check my blog ;-)

www.queerknits.blogspot.com

Friday, February 01, 2008




I definitely loved this project, and can't wait to take post-blocking photos! I knew that once I'd gotten the chance to block this shawl, it would drastically different. However, I think I knew that on a purely intellectual level. Once I got Icarus all pinned out, I was quite shocked at the difference. (Just like I am every time I block lace! I really should remember how cool this process is!)

Pre-blocking vs. Blocking:







Yup. It's love.



Cross-posted to Interweave Knits Knit-Along, and my blog.



Monday, January 28, 2008

So Im ALOMOST done with this shawl...It was easy to knit but i swear when you get into that last chart it takes FOREVER! and stupid me thought it would look good with a xtra repeat...thi sthing is HUGE I think that repeat was a bad i dea now LOL thank god I didnt make it with the 4 extra ones I wanted LOL

Thursday, January 24, 2008

So here is the yarn for my new shawl...I'm actaully half way thu but i havnt uploaded any pics yet...but arent the colors GREAT



Friday, January 18, 2008

I'm casting on tonight after work WOOHOO I just grabbed some Cherry Tree hill in blues and purples.. I think it should look fine, I have never knit with CTH before...so thing should be fun!