Yep, her blog is listed in an article about knitting in today’s Shopping section of The Toronto Star!
Also: I want to make this! It’s brilliant! Hmmmm, I wonder what yarn I could use…I’d say patons classic wool, but that might end up pretty wide (it’s already 6.5″ across in DK weight). Something to think about.
I received my bag of big wool that I won off eBay yesterday, and it’s not quite the colour I was hoping for. It was called “merry berry”, but it’s really more of a…like a subdued coral colour. Oh well, I’ve started a top-down cardi in it, and if I truly hate the colour I can a) only wear it around the house or b) give it away/ sell it or c) frog it and make a blanket.
I bought a new 12mm needle at the store to knit it on – (aside: Kelly and Emma – I forgot to put that little sign on the door when I left and had to go back. har, har) and it’s going SO fast. I’m on my third ball of yarn and have already done the raglan increases and put the sleeve stitches on holders. I used the cast-on method from the Incredible Raglan Sweater generator, and it’s lookin’ good. I’m knitting in garter buttonbands, although it looks like they may want to fold over. After I finish this ball on the body, I’m going to do the sleeves, then continue on the body with the remaining yarn. That way, if I run out, it’ll just be a little bit shorter in the body rather than the sleeves.
I’m just rambling on and on, aren’t I?
I finished the second manos legwarmer, and I need to get the first one back on the needles to add an extra inch or so. I’ve also started the first sleeve of the Lotech.
Pictures? Sure.
Syncopated Ribs just before it was completed.
The Manos I’m using for the legwarmers. It’s hard to get a good colour pic, though – it’s darker than in this picture.
also: I want my Ben Folds book, dammit! I ordered it through the “marketplace” thing on Amazon, and I was really hoping it would get here this week. Also there’s the Jo Sharp Silkroad (which I clearly won’t be knitting with for awhile). And the Cotton-Ease, which I’m not expecting for awhile (like a month or two).
The test is over. This is a good thing. The ignorant bliss time before I get it back (probably next week) is also a good thing. Chocolate available at SnB – good thing. And Aven gave me a leetle bottle of consolation Kahlua after my test! Aw, ain’t she sweet?
I tried on my first Manos legwarmer, and while it fits great in the leg, it’s a bit shorter than I’d like. So I’ll make the second one to the right length, then go back and undo the bindoff on the first one. The second legwarmer encountered a slight setback at SnB when I blithely ribbed rather than switching to stockinette – I hadn’t had the Kahlua yet, honest!
I’ve also resurrected the cabled top-down raglan that has been on hold for awhile. It’s nice and semi-mindless, and the body is more than halfway done. I’ve probably got about 4-5 inches more to do, then it’s on to the sleeves. How often should I decrease on the sleeves, I wonder? And will I manage to get the decreases the same on both? Who knows?
Oh, and I finished one of the fronts of my Lotech. I think I might take both the legwarmer (which is quite small and compact) and the first sleeve of the Lotech (which hasn’t been started, so it’s really a needle and a ball of yarn) with me tomorrow. What a nice segue, laura! Erin, a fellow UofT undergrad, asked in the comments whether I knit in class or just the subway.
I actually rarely knit in the subway. This is for two main reasons. a) I find that my subway ride isn’t really long enough to get much done. I might manage a few rows of whatever, but then there’s the hassle of getting things out, and not elbowing people…and b) I’m rarely really awake while on the subway. Due to force of habit, my eyes tend to get quite sleepy when I sit down on a train, and I end up closing my eyes almost all the time.
I do knit in class, but like you said, I have big classes in which the lecturer will probably not see me knitting. In Convocation Hall, for example, I sit in the second balcony and I knit. I also knit in botany (where I sit close to the front, I know that the prof can see me) and most of the time in my linguistics classes. Basically, whenever I get the chance. Plus there’s a major upside to knitting in lecture – it keeps me awake and alert. Much more likely to actually learn something that way.
That was long! Time to get to bed, methinks. Still gotta get through tomorrow, my long day (2 lectures, then a shift at work, then a three hour lecture – the legwarmer will likely be finished by the end of tomorrow).