Category: sweaters

  • oh no!

    So I’m sitting in lecture yesterday, and I go to pull my footie-in-progress out of my bag. This is what I found:

    Dammitall! That was one of my favourite needles, too. :( Luckily I had a backup project in my bag (the bamboo tank). But damn.

    I’ve finally gotten a good start on the ribbing for sideways spencer:

    It’s coming along really nicely! I’ll be done the second sleeve’s ribbing shortly, then I’ll sew up the seams before picking up for the bottom ribbing. I’ve done 4×2 ribbing on the sleeves, not 2×2 as written in the pattern – so, should I do 2×2 or 4×2 ribbing for the bottom of the sweater? The button bands will have to be in 2×2…

  • oh, hello

    Not so much knitting and spinning stuff the last few days, because I went to the Canada Day fireworks and other good stuff. But….

    The main body of Sideways Spencer is blocking! So now all I have to do is…figure out what I’m doing, and do the ribbing, collar, and buttonbands.

    And, well, the Fleece Artist rovings are roving no more.

    The skein on the left was 3 thingys (bundles?) of roving, done up into 190 yards of worsted/heavy worsted 2-ply. I wish I’d plied tighter, but I’m not going to do anything drastic like try to undo it or anything. I’m VERY happy with the second skein – it’s a single bundle of roving, now 60 yards (plus another few) of worsted 2-ply. The little teeny skein on the far right was the result of an accident during plying. Whoops! Obviously, that didn’t hold me – I may need to purchase something more to spin tomorrow!

    Coming soon – an FO or two!

  • wips

    Oh, hello there. Sorry I haven’t been around as much with the updates – school is running me ragged. Less than 3 weeks to go, and I’ll be free (except for anthropology)!

    I feel like I’ve just been spinning my wheels with my projects, because I’m working on so many different things that nothing is getting done. Evidence:

    Cozy. Still a looooong way to go, and it’s getting too big to take to SnB (almost).

    The Monk’s Travel Satchel – I’m almost done the strap! I’m at 62″, and to account for shrinkage I’m aiming for 80″. This one goes pretty quickly during lectures, but again, getting kind of freaking large.

    No stripes go round. Boring, boring. I haven’t worked on it in ages. The body’s about half done.

    Sideways spencer. I love knitting this one, and it goes so fast because of the patterning. Probably because of that, I haven’t been working on it very much – I’m at the point where you divide for the left front and back. I’ve loosened up my gauge a little while is helping with the wonky row gauge (but I’m making the 40″ size, so if it turns out a bit small it’ll still be ok).

    The grey socks. One down, one to go! I did a star toe on the first sock. We’ll see if he thinks it’s comfortable. If not, well, I don’t know.

    A toe-up sock for my toe-up socks class. I need to get to the heel this week so I can demonstrate the heel! I wish I was using smaller needles, but I don’t want to buy any. Oh well. Demo sock.

    The newest WIP – grumperina’s tivoli tee, in pink cotton-ease. I’m just past the armholes, and it does look like it’s going to fit, more or less – I might need to do a crochet border or something around the neck.

    And then there’s the secret gift project, which is coming along. Less than half done, but there’s still time. Plus when I work on it, it goes quickly.

    So there you have it! Everything laid out. I haven’t really been spinning because I want my wheel – I’ve decided now that I want the Lendrum. I emailed Gemini Fibres to see if they had it in stock so I could go pick one up – they’re expecting a shipment “any day”. I hope that day is before Thursday, because I’ve got very limited time in which to go there, due to school, parents, etc.

    I’ve really got to get some projects done before starting anything new. WIP challenge, if you will.