• tartan – (mostly) just pictures

    The collar.

    Booboo in the back that I stitched over with red.

    All done!

    Tartan Jacket
    pattern by Teva Durham, Interweave Knits magazine Fall 2004
    needles: Denise needles US13
    yarn: 6 skeins Lamb’s Pride Bulky in Spice
    1 skein Lamb’s Pride Bulky Tahiti Teal
    1 skein Lamb’s Pride Bulky Loden Leaf
    2 skeins Lamb’s Pride Worsted Sunburst Gold (doubled)
    1 skein Manos Del Uruguay colour 104 (doubled)
    started: september 30, 2004
    finished: october 16, 2004

  • not much progress…

    …on the Tartan, at least, I worked on it for an HOUR trying to get the shoulder seams to look right. I tried crocheting with embroidery floss, backstitching with the MC (times two or three), and eventually went back to the embroidery floss and hook. Then came the picking up. Thank god the collar’s only 40 rows – I’ll try to get it done tomorrow. Then there’s the other seams! Damn sleeve caps.

    I also managed to finish the back of my LoTech, and started one of the fronts. Syncopated ribs is also making it into the rotation now – I finished the collar with just a rollneck, because the ribs for the turtleneck just didn’t line up properly. I tried, I really did. So I’m onto the cuffs now, which are just a few inches each of 2×2 rib, and then the sleeve seams.

    Just like Stephannie, Cari’s Lara makes me want to make one! And just like Stephannie (aren’t I such a copycat?), I want to use the Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran – the tweed. At any rate, I think it’s decided that I’m going to get some, enough for a sweater. But colour choice, oh colour choice…Like always I’m leaning toward licorice (black) or enamel (dark blue).

    Friendster – anyone got it? I’m cosmicpluto at hotmail dot com.

  • as promised

    Tartan blocking. Sorry for the darkness, but I didn’t feel like setting up the shot better.

    Notice that one piece is still missing, a front. I ran out of pins, so I’m blocking that right now. You know, hard blocking like this is so very trying – stretching everything out to size, getting it to stay there…but the pieces appear to fit together now! The armholes are the same depth, the sleeves are the same size, the cuffs fit around the sleeves!

    But the ends! Dear god, the ends! I’m going to try and pick up some chocolate on my way downtown (belgian, milk chocolate) and sweet-talk Denny into weaving in my ends.

    And I know I didn’t put up an FO picture for her, so here’s Bella.

    I’m writing a thing about knitting and the web for jae’s zine. Any suggestions on helpful sites?