I just finished binding off bpt!
As you can see, it’s curling quite a bit at the bottom – I’ll block, then see what happens. It also doesn’t have a collar treatment yet – I think I might actually just leave it, or possibly pick up and do an icord bindoff around the collar. We’ll see.
And, I got some new bobbins for my wheel, so now I can play, play!
I uh, adjusted my thinking on the steeking of the fiery bolero. as you may recall, the sleeves turned out too long, so I was going to do some surgery involving crochet steeks. Which would’ve been a really elegant solution, I think.
Meh.
A big ol’ hem. And no ribbing necessary, so I didn’t sew it up as much as I would’ve steeked off. Yes, it’s a bit bulky, yes it’s well, really not all that great. But I don’t have the mental energy right now spend working on it! I’ve only done the one hem, I’ll do the other one and the body ribbing after I’m done exams.
In other news…Saturday night I decided to make my grandma a tam (I also decided to just buy my grandpa some scotch and be done with it). I cast on with some Mission Falls from the stash, knit the band and a bit more that night, then spent pretty much all yesterday knitting the rest. I used Ann Budd’s book, and I remembered that Aven had some trouble with the same pattern. She resolved it by decreasing every row rather than every other, so I decided to let her experience be my guide.
As you can see, it’s a bit wonky – I know it’s supposed to be flat, and it’s really not. But I think it’s a perfectly fine hat nevertheless. My grandma’s more of just pull-it-on rather than the whole jauntily-tilted thing anyway.
Three gifts are already out the house (the wine and cozy, gauntlets, and robot #2, which I finished seaming directly before it had to be wrapped and therefore I didn’t get a photo) and I think I’m quite on track! Just the bolero, a bit of seaming on Pasha, and the bottoms of the felted clogs left to do.
So I worked on the Urban Aran.
It’s super long and skinny, but I’m gonna need some of that length to convert to width when I block!
One last thing – I managed to dye some hankies in a colourway I love so much I just had to show it (and it’s even more vibrant in real life):
Definitely reproducing this in wool and doing up some thick and thin. Or maybe sock yarn. Who knows!
Also, the crockpot:
I’m busy dyeing up bunches of silk hankies for lettuce knit, which will be in next week!
And I ain’t slackin’ on the Christmas knitting – it’s down to the wire around here!
The clogs are felted and drying – they still need leather on the bottoms, which I’m going to make out of a vest I salvaged at the vintage store for $3.
A wine bottle cozy for my aunt. It’s done now, complete with berries; I mostly followed the pattern on Knitty but adapted it for the round. I used TLC cotton plus for the main body, and scraps of cotton fleece and lamb’s pride for the leaves and berries.
Robot #1 is complete (with two arms). Man that seaming sucked. I’m going to just whipstitch the entire second one – it’ll go with the look.
What else… I’ve started seaming Pasha, but she won’t be due until Christmas Day; and I knit some cute little sweaters:
I want to make them for everyone! Alas, no time. Oh well.
In all this, I’ve managed to knit a bit for myself, even – I finished the second sleeve of bpt, and am done the waist decreases on the body.
Oy. Back to studying.