Category: sweaters

  • cable-licious

    Not all that much going on here – that university education takes up a lot of time, dangit!

    I’m about 8.5″ up the back of Katy – I’m lengthening the body for sure, as I don’t think 12.25″ is long enough to the underarm shaping! I’m contemplating making the armhole longer too, but that involves looking at the cap shaping on the sleeves…well, I’ll think about it. It’s working up really nicely in the Cotton Fleece – I don’t know if I’d want something bulkier for this. And everything but the cabling row is pretty mindless, and therefore quick!

    I finished the first Irving Park sock already – yeah, I know, that was fast even for me! I’m really getting into the subway knitting thing, as I used to just sleep on that 30 minute ride. Although…this morning I tried to knit but decided to rest me eyes instead. At any rate, knitting on the subway is occurring.

    I did what I thought was a pretty long cuff on the first sock, and it turned out a nice length considering the maximum stretch of the cast-on, but I’ve got tons of yarn left over.

    See the start of the second sock there? That’s still the first ball of yarn! For my next Lorna’s Laces pair (in the “Vera” colourway), I’m going to do knee socks, top down. I’ll see how much mileage I get out of the rest of the first skein on these ones and extrapolate from there. Oh, and I think I’ll go down to 60 stitches for the next sock; although these are great, they could be snugger.

    I’ve started the second sleeve of Cloud finally, and I hope to have the entire thing done this weekend!

  • that lovin’ feeling

    I wanted to post this last night, but the internets weren’t cooperating, so here goes…

    I conquered the v-neck of Cloud once again, and am more halfway done a sleeve.

    I love the feel of the Shine, and I think this will turn out well, but I’m just not feeling the love anymore. It’s really quite unwieldy with the magic loop for the sleeves – if I could just do it on a circular, it’d probably be done by now. Ah, well.

    I was putting up my due dates on my wall calendar (love that thing) and I realized that after Thanksgiving (Canadian, obviously – October 10) I have a test every week for the following six weeks. And there are labs and at least one major assignment in there too. So what did I do in response to this scary, scary news?

    Cast on for Katy!

    I’m using Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, in off-lot Cavern (yeah, same as the, uh, Cavern sweater). I thought I would need to do a bigger size to make it come out with a smaller gauge, but once I cast on and knit two rows I realized that I really didn’t need to do that. Yay cables!

  • seeing red

    Gahhhh. Last night as I worked on the first sleeve of Cloud, I realized something was off…

    Then I realized what I’d done…I’d figured out the total number of sleeve stitches, and provisionally cast that number on to do the yoke. But, I had forgetten to count the underarm gusset stitches – so I had 14 stitches too many! Wayyy to much.

    Sigh. Well, it’s back on track, and I think I might do something different with the neckline this time – it’s still a v-neck, though.

    Speaking of red, here’s some yarn I wound up today:

    See a theme? On top is more Koigu for the skirt, in the middle Silky Wool to swatch/start a pullover, and on the bottom is Blue Sky cotton for a pullover a la “Simply Marilyn” from Interweave. Smaller gauge, though.

    I’m in raglans up to my ears! The Silky Wool and Silky Tweed I bought at the KW fair are going to be put together in a pullover with grey sleeves and a red body. I’m going to make a BIG swatch and be very careful about my calculations, so hopefully it’ll actually come out fitted! The Blue Sky cotton will be another seamless raglan (I think seams in this weight will be too bulky), but with a cable and a few other interesting details.

    Ah, red. Such an autumn colour – my favourite season!