Category: finished object

  • my little cabbage

    I finished up the Mon Petit Chou hipsters, and they are so cute!

    You can probably see some clear elastic sticking out near the top, I haven’t quite figured out how to secure that in yet. I laced up the sides with the same yarn. Here’s a modelled (and cropped) shot:

    Mon Petit Chou
    Pattern: from knitty
    Yarn: Elann Esprit in “Ruby”, 2 balls
    Needles: Denise US 6
    Started: September 2, 2005
    Finished: September 4, 2005

    I also managed to finally finish a go with the flow sock. I think the next one will be faster (I hope).

    The colour’s very accurate in that picture – and as you can see, my light tent technique really does consist of me just sticking my project under my topsheet.

    I’ve been spending some quality time with my wonderful swift and winder, preparing for some new projects.

    Check out that stack of handspun goodness on the right! That’s for a shawl – there’s going to be another colour as well, but that one’s still drying. In the middle are some lorna’s laces sock, for the second go with the flow sock and some sort of knee sock, probably. On the left is a stack of Elann Highland Chunky that’s been knit twice and is still holding up – I’m planning on doing the “Urban Aran” from Patons. I’ve already started once, but then I realized that I was way off on the sizing and ripped it out. I hope it’ll work out this time.

    One last thing – my cheap retractable tape measure finally died, and I killed it. I pulled it out too far/too fast when trying to measure Cozy, and something broke inside. I need a new one.

  • some dem spinning

    I finished the Snap Cardi, although it needs a blocking and some snap tape:

    Snap Cardigan
    knit for lettuce knit, with pattern and yarn available there.
    Pattern: by Blue Sky Alpacas
    Yarn: Blue Sky Cotton, dark blue, 7 skeins
    Needles: Denise US7
    Started: August 18, 2005
    Finished: September 1, 2005

    A cinch to knit, and just gorgeous yarn – but maybe now I can finally get to some fall knits for me! Like this:

    …which will be knit in Knitpicks Shine.

    In the meanwhile, I’ve done a little bit of spinning! Now, I don’t know where I got the link to this article – I know it was a knit blog, and it was a photo of handspun, and the yarn was burgundy. Any ideas? Anyway, the article is about light tents, in case you don’t want to click, and WOW. It makes such a difference. I’m just sticking my head under my bedsheet (just with ambient sunlight for these, not more light under the tent), but it works really well.

    This is 208 yards of 2-ply merino – I bought the roving dyed, off ebay. I don’t know what to call it though – any ideas?

    Fabulous suggestion, Liz – “Carnival” it is!

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  • finally, a real update!

    I finally put the finishing touches on Elspeth!

    Sorry it’s kind of dark; that’s what happens with dark brown!

    Elspeth
    Pattern: by Laura Long, from Rowan 37
    Yarn: Rowan Calmer, just over 3 skeins for size small, “Coffee Bean”
    Needles: Denise US8
    Started: August 2, 2005
    Finished: August 22, 2005

    Notes:
    The knitting was fast, but boy was it confusing! I ended up writing out the fronts line-by-line, with where I needed to do increases and what pattern row I was on, although the actual lace pattern was pretty easy to memorize. I put off things like sewing up and the crochet edging, otherwise it would’ve been done faster! I made the 34″ even though I’m a 36″, because I wanted it to be fitted and the way the pattern is written gives an inch of ease – so for the 34″, it comes out 35″.

    Hm, what else…oh, I ended up doing the crochet edging around the body THREE TIMES because it kept flaring out. Still flares slightly in the back neck, but since I can’t see it, it doesn’t bother me! The Calmer is just sooo soft and lovely, there’s definitely more of it in my knitting future.

    Meanwhile, I’ve been chipping away at the deadline projects – I finished a scarf in Knitpicks Shine for my youngest sister yesterday (her birthday’s tomorrow). I just need to weave in the ends and wrap it up with the fingerless mitts and I’ll be all set.

    I did take some time out of the knitting to make this, for Julie:

    She gave me the jeans, I reconstructed. Came out well, and only took a little over an hour – although that was a somewhat aggravating hour.

    Ah, and the problem with the Blueberry Jacke – here it is.

    See the two markers (sorry for the blurriness!) in the middle there? They’re separated by p2, k2, p2. Now, the pattern calls for starting and ending the rib at the sides with p2, but I just thought psh, why would I want to seam reverse st st? So I started and ended with k2 instead…

    …which lead to starting the diagonal pattern after a different number of stitches (to make it line up with the rib). That was fine. But what I forgot was that you’re supposed to do the diagonal pattern until there are two purl stitches left between them – and that isn’t going to happen with the way I’ve set it up (since in the middle there are 2 knit stitches instead).

    I’ve decided to just stop the diagonal pattern at the marker, so the middle section will be wider. I think I’ll do it correctly on the front, though…I think.

    One more thing – I went to Ikea today for some yarn storage solutions! Excellent.