Category: knitting

  • pentagons = bubble?

    Some photos of bubble sweater in progress, rather than studying for an alarmingly soon test.

    Pentagon 2 – as you can see, I’ve been holding onto photos for quite some time…

    pentagon 2

    Pentagon 5.

    pentagon 5

    I’m using Manos in colour 64, on 4 mm needles – it’s a very dense fabric, which I’m so not used to creating, since I knit so loosely! It’s to gauge, although I was shooting for slightly smaller (since the finished measurement is supposedly 46″ or something ridiculous). I think it’s on track, size-wise.

    I’ve just finished pentagon 6 of 8! Also, knit the first sleeve almost all the way up to the cap at snb tonight. Quick, before it gets warm.

  • on colour

    To distract you all from practically non-existent blogging (after 8 hours of work today I logged a couple at the library…so tired), a discussion question.

    Elann is offering Rowan Pure Wool DK on Monday (don’t even think about scooping it from under me!) and I think it would be perfect for Teva Durham’s Short-row Fair Isle sweater. Yes.

    I couldn’t find a really good photo of it, but there’s one on whisperingpine.

    The question is, of course…what colours? It does look rather nice in the colours it’s shown in, but I’m not personally so hot on purple (it’s a deep purple plus a lavender for the light colour). Choices for the main light and dark colours (used in the actual fair isle bands):

    blues (but there isn’t a really good light blue)
    greens
    browns
    greys

    And then there’s the contrast colour, the one that’s a camel in the photo – the bands that swirl up the body. I’m really not sure what to do for that, I suppose it depends on the main colours!

    Any ideas would be much appreciated.

    P.S. Did you remember to set your clocks forward?
    P.P.S. Adding 125 calories of pure fat (Udo’s oil, on the advice of my naturopath) to my normal diet, supplemented by a little more sugar than usual = weight gain. Ugh.

  • the dark side

    First up, the love for socks is definitely back!

    jitterbug'n

    I just finished a pair of socks for the boyfriend’s brother (the fact that he is visiting town this weekend was probably a good motivating factor) – I got the second sock knit in 2 days! It’s not one of those huuuuge man socks, just a bit longer on both the cuff and foot than I do for myself. But, it is out of Lorna’s Laces on 2 mm. So I’m pretty proud of that. Photos to come.

    The sock above is from the class on sock knitting I taught the last two weeks – the second week we did a short-row heel, so mine’s in the middle of the foot now. It’s Colinette Jitterbug, which despite it being quite thick, I’m knitting on 2 mm needles as well – and it’s still not really as tight a fabric as I’d like. The colours are awesome though, and it feels really lovely.

    Today I went to that shiny, glitteriest of all stores, the bead store…Arton. I may have spent much more than I intended to. I did used to do a lot of beading when I was a kid, mainly a lot of daisy chains. I suppose I never really learned the “right” way with crimp beads and pliers and such, but my creations still turned out well! I’m embarking on a bit more of an ambitious project though…a multi-stranded, short-ish necklace out of mainly fiery red crystal and stone beads (with a few clear and gold thrown in) with a cool magnetic slide lock clasp and yes, crimp beads.

    I have to go back tomorrow for the crimp beads, since I had no idea what I was doing when I was in the store and forgot a couple things. Like…proper cord. I did buy some, but it’s not quite right. So, tomorrow.

    Stay tuned!