Category: sweaters

  • aaaaand we’re back!

    Whoops. Sorry about that unexpected break! My wrist is fine – I just took a day off knitting (which just about killed me) and kept it wrapped, and it was just about fine the next day. I’m still trying to be gentle on it, though, wrapping it when I knit and not overdoing the knitting.

    But, despite all those precautionary measures, I did still manage to get some knitting done over the weekend!

    L&L sleeves

    I finished both sleeves of Lush and Lacy – the one on the left is the one that I just completed, and although you can’t really tell from the photo, it’s much less fuzzy than the other one. Oh, angora.

    I’m planning to leave off the pockets on the fronts of the sweater, although they do look great on Elizabeth’s version. I just don’t think the added bulk will help things around that area! Hopefully the fronts will go pretty quickly and I’ll have a new sweater soon. I’d be working on Choco-belle, but the wrist doesn’t like how heavy and intensive the knitting is (all those cables).

    So it’s light, lush and lacy this week!

  • oooh, that’s lush

    Knitting things in pieces = feeling of accomplishing something, because the back of Lush and Lacy is done!

    lush and lacy back

    It was pretty darn quick, especially for someone used to the slog of things knit all in one piece. Of course, just ask me how I’m feeling once I get tired and still have finishing left to do!

    The yarn, which is 50% angora, 50% wool, looks really quite smooth in the skein, wound into a ball, and even as you’re knitting it. But in the handling, the halo really comes up on the finished piece! Mmm, this is going to be nice.

    mmm, angora!

    Things are on pause for a day or so, though, because:

    uh oh.

    It really isn’t as bad as it looks. I took a rather nasty (and embarrassing) spill in the snow yesterday, right on my ass. I shattered the lid of a lip balm and dented the back of my phone (LG Shine – it still works, it’s fine, but it’s also rather NEW). And apparently, I also did a bit of damage to my wrist, because I’m feeling some twinges today – like when I went to pick up a bowl out of the microwave using my left hand.

    So I’m not taking any chances today, and taking it easy, since my wrists and hands are pretty much my entire livelihood. Here’s hoping it gets better fast!

  • try, try again

    Thanks for all the comments on the Tree Jacket! I really do love the way it turned out – and I think the contrasting yarn really ended up a good thing.

    Meanwhile, I’ve got very little knitting to show at the moment, for some reason. I’m always knitting, but right now it just feels like nothing’s really working, you know? Not really in the groove.

    Case in point, Imogen [Rav link].

    Imogen, again

    Yarn is Dream in Color Classy, in Black Parade – much more blue in real life, not so brown. It’s working up really, really nicely. However…I knit up a whole ball (250 yards) before snapping out of the delusion that the sizing would work out at my gauge (which is quite different from the pattern). So I ripped the whole thing out and started again.

    I probably should’ve done a provisional cast on this time, but I just don’t learn. So I’ll have to pick out my cast on edge later – oh well. The good thing is, I knit up that whole ball in just about one day…so I think I’ll be able to get back on track right quick!

    Non-knitting, but cool, last night I went to Nathan Phillips Square (where City Hall is located here in Toronto, for those who don’t know) for “Wintercity”, which is a new winter festival. Saw some very cool trampoline stuff!

    Two Olympic trampolinists:

    the flying canucks

    One snowboarder, and one skier (Jeff Bean – some might remember him as the dude that lost both of his skis midair during the Torino Olympics):

    the flying canucks

    And when it got dark, there was a huge “nights of fire” sculptural exhibit featuring, you guessed it, a whole lot of fire.

    fire sphere

    fire sculpture

    (Great photo-taking fodder.)