Category: knitting

  • osw

    Modelled pic? Maybe another day.

    One Skein Wonder, with sleeves
    Pattern: by Glampyre, modified by me
    Yarn: Knitpicks Shine, “Orchid”, 3 skeins
    Needles: Denise US7
    Started: July 28, 2005
    Finished: August 14, 2005

    So it took longer than I thought, but it was actually very quick knitting. The Shine is gorgeous, I love it! This should be just the thing for over-air-conditioned lecture rooms. Not that I’ll be in lecture for the next few weeks…I finally get a vacation after tonight’s exam! Woohoo!

    Anyway, I finally finished up some spinning as well.

    “Spruce”, 206 yards. It’s so lovely and soft! I wish I’d bought some more of this wool blend when I had the chance. Currently spinning up some blue/purple of the same wool; hopefully I’ll start a shawl like Adrian’s.

    I also finished knitting Elspeth, although after this picture was taken I ripped back a bit on one of the fronts to fix it…as you can see, I didn’t do partial motifs, which resulted in some..funky spaces.

    Now I just need to sew it up by Wednesday so Denny can do my crochet (right Denny?).

  • yellow, pink or grey?

    Third time was a charm, and OSW is now waiting patiently for the weaving in of ends….so many ends, for some reason.

    Meanwhile…I’m kind of feeling the urge again to knit the “jacke en apricot”, the jacket that gets around. Now, what colour to do it in…yellow, pink or grey?

    Sorry about the crappy pictures today, indoor nighttime lighting isn’t very kind to picture-taking! From left, cotton-ease in banana cream, cotton-ease in strawberry pink (lauren’s strawberry jacket), all seasons cotton in some kind of off-white-grey colour (sort of like this one over at craftster, but more grey).

    I have a favoured one – but what do you guys think?

  • gahh.

    Just a short entry, as I really should be studying!

    Not a good knitting day. I’m having so much trouble binding off with the proper tension on my OSW! The first time was too tight (although maybe I should’ve just left it like that) – I did a normal bindoff. Then I undid that, and did an elastic bind off (*k2tog, put st back on left needle*) and it was too loose! I HATE undoing a bindoff.

    This time – normal bindoff with a bigger needle. Last time I’m doing this!