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  • silence

    Argh! I’m rather sick at the moment, and what started as a case of the sniffles has become an extremely sore throat and cough complete with failing voice. I’ve been taking medicine, sucking back cough drops, and sitting around the house all day. Did a little schoolwork too, seeing as how school starts again Monday. Speaking of which, I must voice my displeasure with the fact that despite Monday being a bank holiday for the observance of New Year’s, we still have to go to school. Boooooooo.

    On the bright side, look! I’m published!

    It’s “Take Back the Knit”, a faboo zine by my pal jae, and I’ve got two articles and one pattern! Yay! I’m brimming with ideas for the next issue (submissions due March 28, 2005) and I even remembered to write said ideas down so I can actually write the articles.

    My Koigu glove was getting boring (and feeling unnecessary, as it’s positively balmy at above freezing here) so today I worked on my Must Have.

    For some reason, my camera decided that the sweater is red, rather than the dark brown it really is. No one would notice this (except maybe people who’ve made this sweater) if I didn’t mention it, but I changed the diamond cable crosses in the back to cross symmetrically away from the center of the back. I’ll do the same on the front pieces. I’ve got 10″ done, so I think I’ll do one more diamond before starting the armholes. Maybe a little more, because I want the sweater to be a little longer than the pattern calls for.

  • FO!

    Clapotis, she is done!

    In a classic case of the camera seeing all, one of the drop stitch ladders wasn’t fully dropped in this pic, but that’s fixed now. It was a lovely pattern, and came out just beautifully in the yarn I chose, Fleece Artist Silken, 100% silk. It’s just gorgeous. Here’s a closeup:

    In other news, I finished one Koigu glove and the second one progresses…I was sidetracked by Clapotis, so not too much progress here.

    I started this mistake rib scarf on Christmas, but it’s just not doing justice to the amazing softness of this yarn. So it shall soon be ripped. Any suggestions? I was thinking either 1×1 rib or legwarmers…

  • things

    No pictures, but the archives should work for all browsers now – I added a .html extension, and it works for me in Safari, Firefox, and IE. Be sure to reload to get the new links; they should end in _archive.html. Sorry to anyone who had tried to get to them and couldn’t!

    I’ve been working on Clapotis all day, and OH MY GOODNESS she’s GORGEOUS! I love the dropped stitches and the silk yarn, it works up really quickly, and I don’t even need a row counter for the straight sections. She may be the most beautiful thing I’ve knit so far.

    Taking stock of the time left this winter, here are my plans for the big projects (before it gets too warm to wear the woolies).
    – finish the Must Have
    Mariah, in Elann peruvian wool
    – a cardie or jacket with the Elann highland chunky I ordered today
    – and various small projects.

    Must get back to Clapotis, she is oh so addictive! I think I’ll be making another one out of wool or cotton or something!