Friday, May 09, 2008
In which I confuse people by making this look like a scarf I already made last month
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in “Berry”
Needles: Size 2 straights or circulars
Pattern: May is for Ari
Notes: Continuing with 2008: A Year in Scarves… we have May is for Ari. Ari is the twin sister of my now five-year-old god-daughter (who was the inspiration for last month’s scarf), and of course she is also very into pink! Although the girls are twins, they aren’t identical. So just like Ari being both skinnier and taller than her sister, the May scarf is thinner and longer than April’s scarf. They are both, however, made from the same yarn (the scarves, not the sisters) and have very similar stitch patterns. Similar, but not exactly alike.
Peaks & Valleys
Yarn: Yarn Pirate Merino/Tencel in “Butternut”
Needles: Size 2 DPNs
Pattern: Peaks & Valleys from the book Knit Socks
Notes: A late birthday present!
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Buy my yarn leavings?
Tuesday I tackled this:
With the stuff I decided to flat out pitch, I got it down to eight bins. If anyone wants to buy any of the following grab bags, I can get it down to seven bins. Be forewarned that none of this is “the good stuff”. It’s all stuff I bought with projects in mind and then either started and gave up on, or never got around to starting, or is the extra from project over-buying, etc. Most of this would be great for charity knitting, or baby afghans, and so on. I really need to destash, and this is the easiest stuff to start with. I just couldn’t bring myself to start with the sock yarn! So, take a look if you dare. There are two prices; one if you can pick it up (I can bring it to the shop, as I am most easily found there) and a different price including postage if I’m mailing it to you. I happily take cash, PayPal, or if I know you, a check. Sorry, no bartering with pigs or chickens.
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/08/08 at 07:19 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Stash Acquisition
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Xmas 2008 hat #3
Yarn: Noro Kureyon colorway #207
Needles: Size 7 circulars
Pattern: It’s a HAT! Cast on in the afternoon. Knit ribbing while waiting at Hops. Knit in the round until Iron Man tests his suit. Decrease the next day. Bind off.
Notes: I had to have something to knit when we went to go see Iron Man the other night, so… here it is! Future Christmas gift!
Monday, May 05, 2008
Eighteen months in the making
Yarn: Malabrigo worsted weight in “Rich Chocolate”
Needles: Size 8s; sometimes circulars, sometimes straights
Pattern: Rogue by The Girl From Auntie
Notes: OMG! I’m done! DONE! MAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! DONE!!!!1!
I am in ur sweater, seamin ur sleeves
One sleeve is sewed on; one still to go. I may actually finish this sweater in this lifetime… though I still suspect the store may catch on fire/we might have an earthquake/freak tornado… something massive may happen that will cause me not to finish this…
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/05/08 at 11:55 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Pullovers, Works in progress
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Did I mention that I seamed the hood on Rogue?
Of course, it took some fortification…
Thus spoke Lorena on 05/02/08 at 08:59 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Pullovers, Works in progress
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Monkey see, monkey do!
What with all that uninterrupted knitting time in the ER last night, I knocked out my second pair of Monkeys (if you’re keeping score of my overwhelming list of UFOs at home, this brings me down to… seven*)
Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in “Marble” (I’ve used this yarn before)
Needles: Size 2 DPNs
Pattern: Monkey by Cookie A
Notes: Stashbusting project. Sock project. Project we can use as a sample in the shop because it promotes (a) a yarn we carry and (b) a free pattern from both a designer and online resource that we love. What is not to like about these socks?!
* Note to self: keep this list at seven or under from now on, mmmkay? That gives you one day a week per project, which really does mean that you can finish things faster. Honest.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Toe-up Ribbed socks
Yarn: Mind’s Eye Yarns sock club (January 2008 colorway)
Needles: Size 1 DPNs
Pattern: Made it up as I went along.
Notes: I made these a tad shorter than I usually do, so that I could give my extra yarn to Ginger (she’s using hers to make a baby outfit, and might need a smidge extra).
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Dish-- no, washcloth
Yarn: Vickie Howell’s Craft (South West Trading Company)
Needles: Size 4 straights
Pattern: My own, for a class at the shop on the difference between cables, slipped, and twisted stitches.
Notes: It’s smaller than it was in my mind, but… what can you do?! I wanted to stay within one ball and was making up the pattern as I went along (thank you, Barbara Walker Treasury!). As it turned out I may have had enough to do another 16-row repeat in the middle; definitely eight rows. But I wasn’t going to rip out two inches in order to do it, especially for just a test knit. I am over the moon now about this yarn, and don’t ever want to use any other kind of cotton (it’s a 65% organic cotton/35% milk protein fiber). It was soft, light, didn’t hurt my wrists to work with, and held up well to an initial repeated ripping out until I got my stitch count correct. Really; I started this five or six times. This yarn holds up fantastically! If you are not knitting dishcloths and hand towels out of this yarn, you need to change your ways.
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/22/08 at 11:07 PM in Crafts, Yarn, Washcloths
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Xmas 2008 hat #2
Yarn: Noro Kureyon colorway #102
Needles: Size 7 circs
Pattern: It’s a HAT! Cast on. Knit in the round. Decrease. Bind off.
Notes: I had finished my other hat the previous night, and needed a mindless project to knit when Tim and I went to a movie last night. Cast on in the car, did the ribbing while waiting for dinner, and knit the body during the movie. Finished the decreases during the season premiere of Deadliest Catch (worked on that rather than Rogue, because Tim was teasing me about starting YET ANOTHER PROJECT. HAH! I showed him!). Also; future Christmas gift!
Pillow #5
Yarn: Berocco Foliage, and some matching scrap from stash as I was afraid of running low
Needles: Size 10 straights
Pattern: Learn-to-knit pillow
Notes: One side was done while teaching some friends to knit; I was tired of looking at it in my UFO pile so I finished up the other side over the weekend. My weekend. Monday and Tuesday. You know what I mean. Anyway; future Christmas gift!
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/16/08 at 09:14 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Misc Projects
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Xmas 2008 hat #1
Yarn: Noro Kureyon colorway #211
Needles: Size 9 circs
Pattern: It’s a HAT! Cast on. Knit in the round. Decrease. Bind off.
Notes: Needs a little fulling; I really should have used 7s, not 9s.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
To paraphrase Meatloaf, ten out of eleven ain’t bad
Here’s ten out of the eleven projects I currently have on the needles (no photo of the May scarf).
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I need to go have a little lie-down… I’m feeling a little more overwhelmed than I was a few minutes ago. Maybe for my Knitting Olympics piece this summer, I should FUCKING FINISH SOMETHING.
1. Still Rogue; still in progress, 2. IMG_7567, 3. Peaks & Valleys (in progress), 4. toe-up socks (in progress), 5. 80 rows in..., 6. Dark Victory in progress, 7. hat (in progress), 8. Monkeys (in progress), 9. Dish/hand towel (in progress), 10. Slip-stitch cable socks (in progress)
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/09/08 at 11:18 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Works in progress
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It just might be Mud Season
It is downright frightening how easily I lose my notes on club fibers.
Fiber: 100% Merino (I think… but I lost the note)
Colorway: Mud Season (I think… but I lost the note)
Yardage/Weight: 175 yards/55 g and 148 y/57g
Roving From: Spunky Eclectic’s Fiber Club (April 2008)
Notes: My kingdom for the ability to not lose notes! Also, this is the first yarn spun on my new Ashford Traveler!
1. Mud Season (roving), 2. Mud Season (on the bobbin), 3. Mud Season (1), 4. Mud Season (2)
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Sea Hag
Fiber: many/mixture
Colorway: Sea Hag
Yardage/Weight: 121 yards/about 4 oz.
Roving From: Art Clubs CUCKOO FOR CUCKOOBATTS (February 2008)
Thursday, April 03, 2008
How we treat the old and infirm in our house
Thus spoke Lorena on 04/03/08 at 10:34 AM in Crafts, Yarn, Works in progress, Pets
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
January is for Karen, for me
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted in “Safari”
Needles: Size 8 straights
Pattern: January is for Karen
Notes: This one is for me! Also, I totally screwed up the last rows, in that I knit one row (instead of three) and then bound off. I blame the fact that I’m also working on two other scarves that are “knit one row and bind off”. Clearly I could not brain the day I finished this… and clearly it’s not the end of the world because you will not see me ripping out and reworking!
April is for Lili
All morning long I’ve had this feeling of impending doom… feeling that I’ve forgotten… something. I don’t know what. But something. It turns out I’ve forgotten to bring my pattern notes with me for the April scarf, so I can’t get it written and uploaded. But here’s what the pattern looks like!
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in “Berry”
Needles: Size 2 straights or circulars
Pattern: April is for Lili
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Festival
Fiber: Black & Blue Faced Leicester
Colorway: Festival
Yardage/Weight: 228 yards/about 4 oz.
Roving From: bought at Uncommon Threads
1. Gale’s Art "Festival" (4), 2. Gale’s Art "Festival" (3), 3. Gale’s Art "Festival" (2), 4. Gale’s Art "Festival" (1)
