Category: musings

  • excited sleep

    Tomorrow’s the Kitchener/Waterloo knitters’ fair, and I’m going, along with lettuce knit and a bunch of knitterly friends. I’m excited – I kept up my yarn diet for all of August (yep, didn’t buy a yarny thing!) so I get to go nuts. I’ve got ideas and projects in my head and written down, so I know what I want to get and don’t forget anything.

    What do you do when you don’t have much to blog about? I like reading blogs that are updated often, every day or so. I started out doing that, but I’ve been slipping lately because I don’t feel I’ve done anything worth posting about. On that note, progress reports:

    Wrappy sweater: second sleeve complete, body in progress – I think I’ve decided what to do with the body, but we’ll see how that works out.
    Cozy: ends still need to be woven in; at least there’s only two!
    Cloud v-neck: almost done the body decreases, and it’ll be my car knitting for tomorrow.

    At least tomorrow I’ll have purchases to blog about!

  • my little cabbage

    I finished up the Mon Petit Chou hipsters, and they are so cute!

    You can probably see some clear elastic sticking out near the top, I haven’t quite figured out how to secure that in yet. I laced up the sides with the same yarn. Here’s a modelled (and cropped) shot:

    Mon Petit Chou
    Pattern: from knitty
    Yarn: Elann Esprit in “Ruby”, 2 balls
    Needles: Denise US 6
    Started: September 2, 2005
    Finished: September 4, 2005

    I also managed to finally finish a go with the flow sock. I think the next one will be faster (I hope).

    The colour’s very accurate in that picture – and as you can see, my light tent technique really does consist of me just sticking my project under my topsheet.

    I’ve been spending some quality time with my wonderful swift and winder, preparing for some new projects.

    Check out that stack of handspun goodness on the right! That’s for a shawl – there’s going to be another colour as well, but that one’s still drying. In the middle are some lorna’s laces sock, for the second go with the flow sock and some sort of knee sock, probably. On the left is a stack of Elann Highland Chunky that’s been knit twice and is still holding up – I’m planning on doing the “Urban Aran” from Patons. I’ve already started once, but then I realized that I was way off on the sizing and ripped it out. I hope it’ll work out this time.

    One last thing – my cheap retractable tape measure finally died, and I killed it. I pulled it out too far/too fast when trying to measure Cozy, and something broke inside. I need a new one.

  • booooooring

    I know I’ve been pretty quiet lately – the knitting’s not all that exciting, and I haven’t been home much! When I am, it’s sleepy time. I did manage to finish the secret project in time (eucalan-ing right now!) so there’ll be pictures tomorrow. Not that it’s all that exciting a project, but it’s really not all that often that I knit for others.

    In the meanwhile, I finished the sleeves of the Snap Cardi as well. Just two front and a long-ass collar to knit!

    It really is just soft and comfy and lovely. I can’t wait to use my Blue Sky cotton – I’m thinking just a simple pullover, maybe with a cable on the front.

    Sooooo…that’s about it for now! I hope to have a knitterly weekend, so maybe I’ll have something exciting to show then!