Category: yarn

  • um,

    Okay.
    I really, really, REALLY want to make this sweater:

    It’s “Syncopated Ribs” by Norah Gaughan, from the fall issue of Interweave Knits. side note: I just seem to love these pieces that are done in one honkin’ big piece, thereby making it very difficult to just take to knit in the subway. I think I ought to start making socks or hats or mittens or something (although according to my sources, “mittens are sooo last night”!).

    Anyway. I want to make it in this:


    Lion Brand Cotton-Ease in Blueberry. Now for the problem. The 42″ size calls for 1300 yds of the yarn (Berroco Pleasure, 130 yd/50g), which is 6.2 skeins of Cotton-Ease (207 yd/100g). The 38″ size calls for 5.6 skeins of Cotton-Ease.

    Problem: I only have 5 skeins.
    Possible solutions: a) Make the 38″ size (my bust about 37″, by the way). Omit the turtleneck (which I’d probably do anyway), and shorten the sleeves to 3/4 length (the sleeves are written quite long, 22″).
    b) Somehow incorporate a different colour – I also have two skeins of “candy blue”.
    c) Make it white (but I really want to use the white for a cardi).
    d) Don’t make it at all (at least for a few months), because I’ve got a whole bunch of other projects waiting patiently for my time.

    What makes this pattern so cool (quoted from Interweave): “Garment is worked in one piece beginning at the lower front edge, up and over the shoulders (casting on stitches for the sleeves), then down to the lower back edge”.

    I also really want to make the “Monk’s Travel Satchel” from Folk Bags, which is free from the Interweave site – and yes I know Joyce, the endless seed stitch rectangle. I don’t mind that (at least it’d be a subway/lecture project!), but I can’t afford to buy the yarn right now. So it’s in the queue, but possibly for quite awhile. EDIT: actually, I should have enough Naturelle to do the bag with…and if I go down a couple needle sizes in an attempt to get gauge (not really all that important, I like a nice big bag) it’ll be nice and sturdy. hm.

    Sweaters (and bags) keep me up at night.

  • supposed autumn

    Today was very warm. A little too warm for my taste, actually. I want to be able to wear some type of non-tank top comfortably, and not be sticky and yucky. I can’t wait for some cooler (but not cold cold) weather.

    Anyway, last night I finished my third ball of yarn on the zigzag bag, but I was three rows short of the repeat. So, I just joined a new ball and finished off that repeat as well as cast off for the straps this morning. I worked on the strap between tutorial and class this evening as well as at SnB…

    I fiddled with the colour saturation a bit on this pic because it was really washed out – the colours are fairly bright in real life, although the black stripes bring down the tone a little bit. This bag is such a nice quick knit – a welcome change from the neverending Bella! Which, I might mention, hasn’t received any attention since I finished the seaming. Maybe this weekend.

    ttfn!

  • the longest three hours..

    …are those of a lecture before for a four-day weekend. Well, the four-day weekend being a break from school only, and lecture content being review of pretty much everything I’ve learned in linguistics twice already! Sheesh.

    Anyway, thanks for the kind comments on my shrug and skirt :D I think I’ll wear the skirt tomorrow – it’s super comfy.

    I had taken this picture yesterday…

    ..but it no longer looks like that. No, I didn’t frog, actually the opposite. I finished that second front piece and attached the shoulders of the sweater with a three-needle bindoff! So now I only have 2 sleeves to go (which will only be about 20″ long as opposed to the 32″ of the body pieces) and finishing up to do!

    I just got home from the longest day of my week, so it’s time to go sit around and start my zigzag bag!