Category: sweaters

  • off the needles

    I wanted to post this earlier, but I was trying to post the photos through flickr and couldn’t make it work! It’s not accepting my username/password, which I use to access my blog files normally (ie. upload photos via FTP). It’s not taking my wordpress admin login name either. WTF? Little help?

    Anyway, fresh and not so fresh off the needles.

    Not so fresh:

    Pattern: my own top-down raglan (yeah, I know it looks like glampyre’s, which is cool with me)
    Yarn: Patons Classic Wool, 4 skeins
    Needles: Denise US7
    Finished: November 6, 2005

    This sweater’s just right. Cozy, black, easy to wear. Not so good – horrible pilling after only two wears. Sigh. I need to find a good, sturdy, non-pilling yarn for a basic sweater – any ideas? Doesn’t need to be next-to-the-skin soft, since I’d be wearing at least one shirt underneath it anyway. I was thinking maybe Peace Fleece…

    Fresh off the needles:

    Pattern: basic sock, 64 stitches, short-row heel
    Yarn: knitpicks sock garden in “star gazer lily”
    Needles: Clover 2.25 mm dpn
    Finished: November 10, 2005

    I’m almost completely done one of the vera knee socks! Then just the toe on the first one left to go. Another off the needles soon, I hope!

  • some colour and some black

    I dyed up the last pound of corriedale roving that I’d bought from eBay a while back (seller winderwood farm) and it was finally dry tonight.

    I dyed in the crockpot, with Cushings dyes, in two 8 oz. batches. The roving’s in a couple balls because I accidentally pulled too hard in a few places while fluffing it up! I really like how the red/grey/purple one came out; it was totally not what I was expecting.

    I started a new sweater that’ll go fast, I hope – I’m cold! I don’t know if you noticed, but those last couple sweaters I knit were cotton, and I’m definitely feeling a chill. The sweater’s a top-down pulli in black wool. Not terribly exciting, and you probably won’t see it again for awhile, since it’s pretty boring blog fodder.

    I’m also going to start some scarves, since they’re the ultimate cold weather accessory – one in the black casmere I showed the other day, one in some yummy blue sky alpacas worsted. Yum.

  • FO alert!

    Katy!

    Katy
    Pattern: Debbie Bliss’ “Cotton Angora” book
    Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, off-lot Cavern (dark brown/purple instead of black) bought from eBay, 5 skeins
    Needles: Denise US7
    Started: September 18, 2005
    Finished: October16, 2005

    Just under a month later (and among many other projects), Katy is finally done! She’s a beaut, and no flashdance neckline either!

    Notes:
    – The knitting was super-easy. Mostly just straight, with cable crosses every other right side row.
    – I cabled without a needle.
    – I sort of followed Alison’s adjustments on how to make the neckline smaller. I did one additional decrease in the armscye to set the sleeves in further; I lengthened the body a bit; I left fewer stitches across the back neck for the collar, effectively making the shoulders wider; in the front, I stopped the decreases when the shoulders matched the back.
    – Three-needle bindoff for the shoulders, mattress stitch everywhere else (even setting in the sleeves was painless!)
    – Although the pattern is a big chunky due to all the cables, since I used thinner yarn it’s not too bulky.

    On a competely different note, check out these awesome colour cards I got from AmiAmi (and they were FREE):

    My favourite is “Faith”, it’s soooo soft. I’ll definitely be buying some..sometime.