Category: yarn

  • one of them photoless entries

    Yep, not much goin’ on over here. Well, actually, I suppose a lot of knitting has been going on, just nothing really of note. Yesterday I stayed home while my family went to the CNE (that’s the Canadian National Exhibition) and knit all day long. I finished the back of the Snap Cardigan, which went really quite quickly. I’m working on the sleeves both at the same time, so while it seems pretty slow right now at least at the end I’ll have them both done! The yarn is yummy and soft, but the colour (dark dark blue) really sucks light into it. It’s a good thing the sweater’s just straight stockinette, otherwise I might be blind!

    I’ve been working along on the Blueberry Jacke, but I have encountered a bit of a problem – rather than following the instructions, which have you start and end the ribbing with p2, I started and ended k2. This resulted in various other things that have needed some attention. Oh well. More on this later, maybe tomorrow.

    I haven’t started that scarf for my sister yet – I’d better get on that!

    Stay tuned for more interesting knitting news.

  • yaaarn

    First off the top, my OSW modifications by popular demand –

    – I changed the gauge from 16 sts/4″ to 20 sts/4″ (row gauge was the same as the pattern)
    – I think I probably did a few more increase rows than given
    – sleeves: I joined the sleeve stitches into a round where you’re supposed to do the seed stitch border – obviously I didn’t do that. I placed a marker under the arm and decreased 1 stitch on either side, every 6th row, until I liked the size – I think that was 9 times.
    – I did 2×2 rib on the cuffs.
    That’s about it for that!

    In yarn news…yes, I’m still on a diet. BUT, as a yarn diet to me is more about saving money than rejecting more yarn, I can’t possibly reject yarn that I don’t actually output money for…

    So. Blue Sky Alpacas cotton, in a rusty red, enough for a pullover.

    I really wasn’t totally, completely sold on the colour, but I can still think about it. I might switch it for the blue –

    No, I’m not insane. The blue is for a sample sweater I’m knitting for lettuce knit, the Snap Cardigan by Blue Sky.

    I also got a wee bit o’ lorna’s laces, in “Irving Park”.

    And, well, as for the Jacke en Blueberry, I got through 2 repeats of the chart when I realized that I’d cast on for the wrong size – I was planning to do the larger size at a smaller gauge, but I cast on for the smaller size at a small gauge! Very small! So I had to rip it all out and start again.

    This was Tuesday night, after I ripped. I’m almost back up to where I was. Here’s hoping for some forward progress!

  • freedom!

    I finally wrote my last exam of the summer yesterday, and now I’ve got a whole three weeks off before the fall term starts! Yippee! Although, I did decide to finally get off my ass about driving, so the week of the 29th I’ll be in 5-day intensive driving school….but at least it’s not regular school!

    And since you asked so nicely lynette…

    I wore OSW for a short period yesterday to take this photo, and to make dinner. I found that…I didn’t like wearing it. Armpit wedgie, and all that. It may have just been that particular shirt, though – I’ll give it another go sometime.

    In the meanwhile, I whipped up one (just one) handwarmer for my little sister’s birthday, out of leftover Shine. It’s cute! And since it only took about an hour, I can afford to wait a few days before doing the other one. I think she wants a scarf, too – maybe I should just get it all done so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.

    I spun this up:

    I’m calling it “haze”, but I’m too lazy to figure out the yardage. Something like 200 yards, probably. I’ve got another 4 oz of this colourway, but…I don’t think I like it much. Maybe I’ll overdye it; I haven’t done any dyeing in a long while!

    Annnndddd…..presenting the beginning of the Rebecca Jacke….en blueberry. Yep, I just went completely elsewhere with the colour. This was what I wanted to do the sweater originally (months ago) but I thought maybe I should do it in something brighter. But jae was right – fall is coming, after all.

    I’m aware the ribbing kind of looks like crap. But, this is cotton-ease that was already knit into Syncopated Ribs (from IK fall 2004) and then frogged. Washing will help. Just a few more cm’s and I’ll be ready to start the back yarnover pattern!