Category: sweaters

  • recharged

    Batteries for the camera, anyway (and macro wasn’t the issue with the cybershot – it really is just bad in any kind of low light). Sleeping in this morning helped with my rest issues, but all I really want is a couple of days to sleeeeep and just hang out! Ain’t gonna be many of those for awhile.

    Meanwhile, it’s been terribly rainy and COLD the last couple days. I’m skipping right over the whole cotton sweater thing (I’d planned to knit Licorice Whip with some brown Main Line this fall, but I think I’ll just leave it for spring) and right to the GIVE ME CHUNKY WOOL thing.

    Could it be? Possibly a Rhinebeck sweater?

    We’ll see. It’s all my handspun merino (with one more CC to spin up – a dark green), headed towards a bottom-up seamless circular colourwork yoke sweater. I swatched Wednesday night and came up with a perfect 4.5 sts/in on 4.5 mm needles – the main colour is a three ply, oatmeal merino. So soft. I’m really terribly proud of it (as anyone there Wednesday can attest to). Away I went, and the body here is done up to the waist increases – and the end of the first skein of yarn. It was the smallest skein, weighing in at 109 g and 174 yards. The two I have left are about 264 yards each, so I should really have plenty for the rest of the body and the sleeves!

    I’m so excited about that sweater! But I will also need to address this pile o’ purple sometime very soon as well:

    It’s supermerino (with a Denise tip stuck in there for scale) for a sample, and rather than getting 10 skeins, I got one honkin’ skein equal to the yardage of ten! My swift nearly had a conniption.

    Purple seems to be recurring around here; short row heel tutorial to come once I get to the heel on this here Trekking sock.

    I’d better go get some sleep; the Run for the Cure is in the morning and therefore I can’t sleep in!

    P.S. For the love of wool, people, go to LittleKnits and buy yarn so I can’t. Seriously, I want Nature Wool at $5.25 a skein. DB Merino DK for $27 a bag. Or the Chunky for $24 a bag. There’s a Kureyon colourway for FORTY DOLLARS A BAG! Gahhhhh!

  • warning: blurry photos ahead.

    Gahhhhh. Normally I use an old Olympus digital camera – 2.1 MP, no manual features, sloooow. But the photos come out fine, generally pretty clear and good colour. I’ve used another camera, a Sony Cybershot (DSC-T1) a few times before and had it be fine too. But lately all I can seem to get with it is shots like this:

    It wasn’t even really low light, just not super sunny. I took shot after shot, holding my breath when I took the photo, resting my hands on my chair’s arm, etc. Very irritating. I think I’ll go back to my Olympus, thanks – unless someone can help me with this particular problem? It doesn’t even have a tripod mount.

    Grey sleeves – Elann Highland Chunky. Super speedy – the second sleeve is already done (and that photo was taken earlier today). For a cardigan.

    Blurry black alpaca starting to look like a sweater. Boring but a good standby knit (not that I really need more things to work on).

    Last weekend I went to Goodwill in search of another crockpot – I found this:

    But no actual crockpot! I’m being taunted.

    Let’s see, what else is up…I desperately want to buy yarn. Dude, it’s not like I need more! Although I keep saying to myself that I don’t have much worsted weight wool at all (really, I only have one sweater’s worth, and it’s got a project attached to it) so I should really get some stuff for design playing. Yeah, that’s it.

    I’ve also been thinking about the whole holiday pressie situation, and I think I know what I want to do (just a few bigger things). Buy the yarn now? That might lead to adding a few more skeins for myself…thus breaking the yarn diet. Hmmmm. Will have to think about this more.

  • one of those days

    This morning, I dreamt that I was in a collapsing building. It was really vivid at the time, although of course I can’t recall now. I hurt my knee in the dream (more of a nightmare) and when I was in that space between actually sleeping and aware wakefulness, I felt that my knee really did hurt, there in my bed. Not that I really felt pain, but I just felt that my knee hurt. I got past the dream for a bit more dozing before I had to get up, but…that was not the greatest way to start the day.

    The school thing, is taking up a lot of my time! No photos again today, because I am not home during the day – I do promise some for the weekend, though! The classes I’m taking are pretty intense, especially BIO323 – Evolution. Much more math than I was expecting, mainly stats – probabilities, figuring out expressions for genetic drift and such. We’ve so far spent three hours on probability. Aaaaand….I have two big tests and assignment due the week after Rhinebeck. Not happy about that. The assignment I can do in advance, and hopefully most of the studying, but the books? They’ll be coming with.

    Things are going a wee bit sideways with my two commission projects – one is due this weekend, and I ran out of yarn last week, so ordered some more…and it isn’t here yet. I did get a notice for the post office for TWENTY DOLLARS. On four balls of Kidsilk Haze at $11 US each. Ridiculous! I will have to go pick it up before I go to work tomorrow, which sucks.

    The other project is a shrug-sweater thing, and I think I’m running out of yarn. I’ll be fine on the body, but it’s the length of the sleeves I’m worried about. I’ll cast on provisionally, and do both caps, then knit down. I guess. This one’s due Monday…

    And then there’s the oh, two hundred or so pages I have to read for next week! Argh!

    One good thing – the pattern for the cabled alpaca sweater for lettuce knit is now done and shall be printed off tonight. It’s nice to cross something off the list. If you want one, we do lots of mail order! I’m calling it C4 – Cozy Chunky Cabled Cardi, and it uses Misti Alpaca Chunky (yummy).

    ETA: Well, my photo printer’s being sucky so there won’t be any copies tomorrow. I guess I’ll just have to get to Kinko’s on the weekend. Booooo, I really wanted this to be done.