Month: March 2007

  • pentagons = bubble?

    Some photos of bubble sweater in progress, rather than studying for an alarmingly soon test.

    Pentagon 2 – as you can see, I’ve been holding onto photos for quite some time…

    pentagon 2

    Pentagon 5.

    pentagon 5

    I’m using Manos in colour 64, on 4 mm needles – it’s a very dense fabric, which I’m so not used to creating, since I knit so loosely! It’s to gauge, although I was shooting for slightly smaller (since the finished measurement is supposedly 46″ or something ridiculous). I think it’s on track, size-wise.

    I’ve just finished pentagon 6 of 8! Also, knit the first sleeve almost all the way up to the cap at snb tonight. Quick, before it gets warm.

  • bling

    Long-awaited necklace post.

    closeup of necklace

    I made this necklace at the end of February/beginning of March, to wear to rachel m’s wedding (and other occasions I hope!).

    necklace strands

    I bought all the supplies (and way more stuff that I didn’t really need…but the beading thing, it’s addictive) at Arton Beads on Queen West.

    The necklace is composed of four strands (of tigertail) – one all seed beads, one seed beads swarovski crystals, and two random mixes of stone chips, seed beads and the crystals. They’re all slightly different lengths. The clasp is stirling silver and magnetic!

    I had a wee bit of trouble with it, but nothing major. I’d say the trickiest part was slipping the wire back through the beads after going through the clasp and the crimp tube. It’s heavy. I love it.

    the whole thing

  • on colour

    To distract you all from practically non-existent blogging (after 8 hours of work today I logged a couple at the library…so tired), a discussion question.

    Elann is offering Rowan Pure Wool DK on Monday (don’t even think about scooping it from under me!) and I think it would be perfect for Teva Durham’s Short-row Fair Isle sweater. Yes.

    I couldn’t find a really good photo of it, but there’s one on whisperingpine.

    The question is, of course…what colours? It does look rather nice in the colours it’s shown in, but I’m not personally so hot on purple (it’s a deep purple plus a lavender for the light colour). Choices for the main light and dark colours (used in the actual fair isle bands):

    blues (but there isn’t a really good light blue)
    greens
    browns
    greys

    And then there’s the contrast colour, the one that’s a camel in the photo – the bands that swirl up the body. I’m really not sure what to do for that, I suppose it depends on the main colours!

    Any ideas would be much appreciated.

    P.S. Did you remember to set your clocks forward?
    P.P.S. Adding 125 calories of pure fat (Udo’s oil, on the advice of my naturopath) to my normal diet, supplemented by a little more sugar than usual = weight gain. Ugh.