Month: December 2005

  • Last night was the lettuce knit anniversary party/cookie exchange, as I’m sure you’ve seen on some other blogs! I took my camera but didn’t take any photos, but you can see some great ones on Stephanie’s, Maria’s, and Mel’s blogs.

    Here’s a photo of the little guy at the party, with one of my (pre-)felted clogs on his head! Cuuuuute. Photo by Mel.

    I managed to finish the second one last night, so here they are, hilariously big next to my size 8 feet. They just need felting, and that’s another one done!

    I’ve also finished another pair of socks, this time out of Artyarns Supermerino, on 3.5 mm needles:

    Unfortunately this photo doesn’t do the yarn justice – it’s just a gorgeous apple green with the darker flecks. Darn sun, being all elusive and such!

    Tonight I finally plied some yarn that’s been on the bobbins for awhile – I’d bought a baggie of silk hankies awhile back and spun them up in..I think it was November, on the thinner side. It hardly looked like any, but because it was thinner, the yardage was pretty good! I plied it with some merino that I finished spinning last week or so.

    You can see the silk shiney bits better in this photo, I think:

    It’s really, really soft and I just love it! I think I’m going to knit a Flower Basket Shawl with it – I just need to decide whether I want to dye the yarn (probably a burgundy) or not. Actually, upon typing that, I think I will dye it. I’m not much of a white-wearing person.

    Any tips on mixing up a nice burgundy dye? I’m using Ashford acid dyes (I’ve got some Cushings left too, in turkey red, scarlet, black, and blue).

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  • a little bit blurry

    Not me (I wish). Some of the picture in this post, though.

    I finished the Ultramerino socks – so. nice.

    I think I need to make a pair for myself in every colour! Anyway, I used Ultramerino 6, colour 136, 1 skein. I did 48 stitches on 3.25 mm needles, and a 5″ cuff in 3×1 rib – and look how much yarn I had left over! Not even an exciting finish.

    Next time I’ll do 5.75″ or even a 6″ cuff. Of course, now that I’ve said that, I’ll be punished by the Knitting Goddess, but oh well. Oh, and I did an awesome eye of partridge heel, too.

    Onto the blurry photos – did people see that Rowanspun 4ply up on Elann last week? It disappeared crazy fast. And I was in on it!

    I got 18 skeins of Blood (and 18 in Burgundy for Jill), and also threw in a kacha-kacha counter and the Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook. I’m planning on double-stranding this stuff, but even still, it’s going to take awhile!

    I finished knitting the second robot, too. I think I’m a bit robot-ed out for awhile.

    Now I just need to find some time to seam all the fiddly things up. But not right now – I’m off to make cookies for tomorrow’s holiday/anniversary party at lettuce knit. And uh, study or something. Yeah.

  • a picture-heavy problem

    I finished the main knitting on the Fiery Bolero – only the ribbing is left.

    Not bad, eh? Well see that line of stitch markers on the right?

    That’s how much I need to take off the sleeves. The sleeves are too long – my mom wanted short sleeves, and these are elbow-length without the ribbing! And since the whole piece is knit up the back, cast on for the sleeves, and down the fronts, there’s almost no way to rip back (I sure ain’t ripping all the way to the back).

    You know what that means…STEEK TIME!

    I’m going to use crochet steeks. I practiced on a swatch last night – forgive the photo quality, it was late.

    I have realized, of course, that since this one is for my mom – it isn’t due until Christmas Day. Other presents will have to be exchanged before then, therefore this one’s getting backburnered for awhile! Too many other things to knit!

    I did start another present – a fantastically gorgeous sock out of Ultramerino 6.

    It’s on 3.25 mm needles and I loooove it – that sock is already done! DK weight socks rock!