October 24, 2007
cutting into knitting time
sock prorgess, Im zooming down the gusset, almost finished my decreases.
A pic of my sky diving friend.
Only 4873 people are ahead of me in line
my goodness…… between my blog, facebook and the one KAL im in I am cutting into my knitting time.
October 22, 2007
damned socks
damned socks, I think I mustn’t be too bright, at least in a sock way.
I am trying to follow the instructions for the simple knitted sock from socks soar….
Could I work it out??? I am new to socks so don’t understand their construction totally, so could i work out where the heal turning was meant to happen? I found a nice picture somewhere on the Internet with a description which helped. But then, i couldn’t work out what the hell was meant to happen with all the stitches when i comesesed picking up the gusset stitches. I understood the idea of what I was doing but for the life of me couldn’t understand her instructions. In the end, I did it my way, and i have all the correct stitches in all the right places, (although I did pick up a few too many, but i would rather have too many than holes).
I don’t think i want to knit socks top down anyway so I will only be following these instructions for the other one of these socks.
I hate when my knitting makes me cranky.
Slow knitting weekend
We went to the Beach for the weekend with a bunch of friends.It was great fun! One of my close friends was skydiving for her birthday, she really seemed to enjoy it.
It is a winding road to the coast from here, so i didn’t take any knitting. I wish I had because I had no idea how long we would end up sitting around at the airport (about 4 hours).
I have just joined up with the Southern Summer of Socks.
My first SSoS goal is to finish the 3 socks I cast on last month and make pairs for them all.
My second SSoS goal (which depends on the first) is to knit up all my sock yarn.
If I can achieve goal 1, I will be happy as I have a lot of baby knitting on the go, Damn pregnant people.
October 16, 2007
Mini Hanami
I Finished and blocked my mini Hanami stole from Pink Lemon Twist It is very beautiful.
It is my first piece of lace knitting.
I did this one as a test run, thus I only did 47 stitches (which is about half, it is once across the lace pattern).
I made a big mistake, which i only realised when I was researching how to block it…..
I used a yarn which was 50% acrylic 50% mohair (to be honest I just grabbed it from the stash without thinking about it).
It was studio 8 mohair by Cleckheaton, i used about 450 meters, on 4mm needles.
It is curling up, even after blocking. I think this is because of the garter stitch.
What I want to know is when i do this in a lace weight yarn on the recommended needles size is it going to curl in??
I was thinking (well it was actually DH’s idea) I might sew it to a nice piece of fabric….
Oh Well I’ll be more careful next time.
Only 8802 people are ahead of me in line
October 15, 2007
Blocking
I have finished my mini Hanami stole, and I am in the process of blocking it. I have never blocked lace work before and I’m not sure that I’m doing a very good job of it. (I was going to take a picture but decided I was too embarrassed).
So back to the baby blanket and the socks for a while. I have got an addi lace needle for my large size Hanami, but i have yet to get the beads for the cast on.
I think I could get into this lace knitting thing, I find it very ‘Zen’, when I am doing it I cant attend to anything else. It gives me a break from the day.
Only 9732 people are ahead me in line.
October 12, 2007
TGIF
YAY its Friday!
I have had a very luxurious knitting week, my DH has left me alone to knit as i liked he even went grocery shopping without me so i could stay at home and knit. I am a very spoilt princess.
I have been listening to lime and violet. I don’t know if I’m the only person who does this but when Ii pick up on a pod-cast i like to go back to the beginning and listen to all the episodes, so i still have a long way to go, but they still seem to be posting new episodes so that bodes well. It has happened to me before that by the time I have caught up to the most current episode the pod-cast has died. I love the madness of the episodes so I’m hoping that it hasn’t changed too much as the pod-cast has matured..
Only 11097 people are ahead of me in the ravelry line..
October 10, 2007
photo update
So here are my newest pictures:
The husband jumper in bits
The koigu Sock cuff and the toe of the knittery sock (mmmm the knittery yarn is soooo nice.)
And finally the Hanami Stole.
I am knitting it on 4mm needles with left over Cleckheaton Studio 8 mohair, I just wanted to see if i could cope with the pattern, I have only cast on enough stitches to do the chart once (no repeat section). I am really loving the pattern, it makes me feel special to be able to produce such a pretty fabric with such a simple process. I am zooming along and aim to finish the basket weave repeats tonight and finish up the transition chart. I have some beautiful lace weight alpaca merino from the knittery to do a full size version in…
