Category: knitting

  • what’s that big yellow thing in the sky?

    It was beauuuuutiful here this weekend. Alas, I was stuck inside studying (although Friday I did go out for a short bike ride). Damn. Ah, well, many more nice days to come, right?

    I finished the knitting of the Balance cardi (hm, it needs a name):

    balance without buttons

    Now it just needs buttons! Seven for the front and one on each cuff. I love the picot hem.

    pretty picot

    Yes, I know that the colour looks completely different in these photos from those in the last entry. Really none of them are right – it’s really this colour:

    balance

    (Image borrowed, without hotlinking of course, from Purl Soho.)

    Lots of other knitting as well, but I’ll have to save those and dole them out as blog fodder for the week! Check out my flickr if you’re impatient.

    Oh! One other thing though, I got some pretties in the mail. They’re from Ling Glass on Etsy. I looooove them, and I want others! The red leaf is 1.25 inches high.

    pretties”

    P.S. I’ve added a bit more stuff to my destashing photoset, including a lot of 990 yards (!) and also lowered the prices on the other stuff remaining, so that the price now includes shipping. Buy my stuff, please!

  • an outdated photo

    top down in progress

    Because this sweater is now done! Well, almost done – I need to buy buttons, and then it’ll be done. And for sale here soon, I hope…the yarn is O-Wool Balance (50% organic cotton, 50% organic wool), and I used a total of seven skeins for a 3/4 sleeve, fairly long cardigan.

    And the picot hem is so cute!

  • laura loves lara

    Laura also loves:

    – finishing 3 papers (and on time)
    – finishing one last embryology test
    – being done undergraduate classes FOREVER

    Still three exams to go. But at least they a) don’t start for more than a week and b) are spread out so I can study for each.

    And Lara? LOVE.

    lara!

    Pattern: Lara from Debbie Bliss’ “Alpaca Silk”
    Yarn: DB Alpaca Silk (aran) in Teal, 14 skeins (the exact number called for with less than half a skein left over)
    Needles: Denise US 7

    Love, love, love this sweater. It’s so cushy and soft, and warm, and was a fast and easy knit. Very satisfying. I’ll definitely knit this one again, maybe in something like handspun in stripes or something? Or a Noro?

    I wore it with a two-pronged hair thingy with a butterfly on it the other night, but now I seem to have lost the hair thingy – very unfortunate. On the plus side, I did find that other wooden hair stick that I love so much for closing sweaters. I wore Lara today just open, and it’s really comfy that way – some of my other ones I prefer to wear closed.

    Laid out (colour’s more accurate in the first photo):

    lara flat

    I do believe I’m back on the blogging thing! It was a hard week (with lots of studying yet to come) but everything’s getting just that much closer to actually being DONE.