Category: finished object

  • happy birthday to me

    Silk Ribbed Corset
    Pattern: by Annie Modesitt
    Yarn: Madil Eden, colour “mocha”, 100% bamboo, 5 skeins
    Needles: Denise US6
    Started: July 21, 2005
    Finished: July 30, 2005

    Notes: I had some problems with the pattern and its format, but it all worked out in the end. I emailed Annie about an updated revised copy, but never got a reply – but that could be due to some weirdness with my email. I still had problems with chart F even following the revised copy. Let’s see, what else…oh. I couldn’t figure out the icord cast on, so I did a normal loop cast on and it worked fine. And I just didn’t do the crochet edging – I wore the top today and it was fine, so that’s that!

    Look, look, what I got for my birthday from my boy:

    An oak umbrella swift!

    MADE BY HIM!

    And he’s all mine. Heh. I thought I’d taken pictures of birthday acquisitions, but it would appear not. Tomorrow. Now I must sleep.

  • a gem

    Sapphire, she is done!

    A shot of the cable on the side.

    Sapphire Tank
    Pattern: my own
    Yarn: Pingouin “Sillages”, 6 balls
    Needles: Addi Turbo 3.5 mm circular
    Started: July 17, 2005
    Finished: July 27, 2005

    Notes: This tank went pretty quickly for 3.5 mm needles! I love the yarn, which was cotton, viscose and silk. I definitely could’ve made this tank smaller, but the fit’s not bad as is. I used a double slipped stitch edge on the armholes and straps, outlined in Annie Modesitt’s Spencer jacket pattern. All in all, not bad. Not the greatest, but not bad.

    In other news…I went crazynuts with Knitpicks.

    That’s Shine in Cloud (grey/silver) and Orchid (fushia), Sock Landscape in Yukon (the one in hanks), and Sock Garden in Zinnia and Star Gazer Lily. They feel sooo nice! Plans? A 3/4 sleeve pullover out of the Cloud, a shrug out of the Orchid (since now I’m all tanked out), and of course, socks.

    I’m alllllmost done the knitting on the silk corset! Now I just have to pray for a blocking miracle for it to fit me. Seriously.

    P.S. Thanks for all the input to my last post! I think I’m still going with the diamond spiral for banana cream, but I’ve got an idea brewing for the branching leaves pattern…

  • hot laura action – now in print

    Hold on to your modems, folks – gonna be a long entry.

    First up, the Broadripples are done and I love them!

    Broadripple Socks
    Pattern: Koigu-weight Broadripple Socks
    Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in “Bittersweet”, 2 skeins
    Needles: Clover Bamboo dpns, 2.0 mm
    Started: July 8, 2005
    Finished: July 19, 2005

    And just in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m in the process of moving my finished objects to Flickr – accessible on the sidebar, there. I’m still working on it, but the stuff from this year should be mostly up there.

    The Sapphire Tank is coming along quite nicely, and quickly for 3.5 mm needles!

    Unfortunately on the subway ride home from stitch and bitch last night, I discovered that I’d accidentally increased and had to rip back.

    Annie Modesitt’s Corset has begun, out of that bamboo Eden I showed last time. It feels great, and it’s a nice change to do a pattern with more going on than just plain stockinette.

    While she was away in Europe, Julie bought me an awesome present – an antique mother of pearl button, from London. Isn’t it pretty?

    And last but not least – the advertising. See this?

    The second edition of take back the knit is out, and it’s got tons of cool stuff, including lots of – you guessed it – yours truly. A snippit of all the awesomeness…

    So hop on over to jae’s and get the deets on how to order!