Month: March 2006

  • sleeve island

    The Cable/Rib sleeves may be done, but my stay is just getting started – I’m planning to start the sleeves of one (or two) new sweaters really soon. Tomorrow, maybe.

    I should have made the sleeves a bit narrower, but oh well. I finished each sleeve with just a few yards (only 2 in the case of one of them sleeves!) left in the skein that was allotted to each sleeve. I’m almost done the second front, and it looks like I’ll have just enough yarn. We’ll have to see, though – this is kinda exciting, the prospect of running out of yarn. I’ve still got the back to do; I’m planning on taking out a few stitches and not blocking the fronts as severely, for a slightly smaller sweater.

    I’ve also been dyeing up a storm of blueface leicester – lots of fun colours to spin up soon.

  • tuesday

    Well, I’m clearly keepin’ on with the cable/rib, despite any weird overspun yarn.

    That’s one completed front, two half-done sleeves, and the start of the second front. I did discover that none of the other skeins had as much variation in colour as the one I used for the first front, so I’m alternating a fresh skein with what’s left of the skein (about 1/4 to 1/3) from the first front. The second sleeve doesn’t seem to be as crooked as the first, so that’s positive.

    I’m just about ready to give up my old Olympus digicam, although I’m so used to how it takes photos that it might sneak in a bit here and there. I took another photo using the new camera (Sony Cybershot) of that cabled yarn I did a little bit back. Yay macro.

    And I’ve got some new yarn, too – my first skein of bluefaced leicester (biffle!). It’s one ply of green, one of white, and I really like it.

    I’ve got a whole bunch of bfl being dyed up at the moment, so I should have lots of yummy fibre to show soon. Oh, and the black vneck is done too; it just needs to be blocked before it’s presentable.

  • hmmmmm.

    So for some plain stockinette, I started a sleeve of the Cable/Rib sweater.

    Those of you with sharp eyes may be able to see a problem (although it’s not really all that clear)…

    This photo was taken with the ribbing aligned with the edge of my desk and the bottom of the frame. See how the stockinette veers off to the left? The yarn is overspun enough that I’m getting biasing! Argh, argh. I started the other sleeve with another ball, to see if it was just this one, but it’s twisty too. And I tried knitting a few rows from the other end of the ball, as per megan h.’s suggestion, but that didn’t do anything either.

    And I don’t want to scrap the project or anything. I think I’ll press on with this sleeve and see what I can get out of the blocking.

    But still.

    P.S. Yarn is Shelridge Farms W4, which was looking to be a perfect yarn until this!