Posted: January 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: handmaiden, projects: shetland lace shawl, scarves&shawls, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: blue, crafty, handknit, knit, lace, shawl, shetland lace, triangular shawl | 2 Comments »
I’ve had a pretty calm first week at school, so the knitting has been going pretty quickly. I managed to turn my skein of pretty, pretty Mini Maiden (50/50 wool/silk! omg!) from this:
Into this.
And in a little less than a week. The pattern I’m using is the Shetland Triangle Shawl (
) which, according to Ravelry, everyone and their dog has already knit. On the one hand, this makes me feel very unspecial and boring, but on the other it lets me exploit the power of Ravelry to my advantage, which is awesome.
For instance: the pattern calls for ten repeats of the main lace motif, and then to begin the edging. But other people have already used this pattern with this yarn, and discovered that if you want to use up the entire skein, you can get away with twelve repeats. I realize this is not new news to anybody, but the fact that a website exists where I can figure this out is still, like, the coolest thing ever.
Does anyone know if there’s some sort of Ravelry for sewing? I fear I’ve been spoiled.
Song of the Entry: Ke$ha – Your Love Is My Drug (Listen)
Posted: December 21st, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: dream in color, projects: christmas knitting 2009, scarves&shawls, socks, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: christmas, gift knitting, gifts, handknit, knitting, lengthwise scarf, scarf | No Comments »
The Christmas knitting is well underway – this is the first year I’ve really had any down-to-the-wire gift knitting undone, and I’m not sure it’s a feeling I like. Next year, I plan to take on less. The current flurry of (unphotographed) work is for my parents, who are both theoretically getting socks for Christmas – I have exactly one of my mother’s pair done, and I started the cuff for the first sock of my father’s pair yesterday. This is Bad News.
However, the scarf for my good friend B- is done. And now that I’ve given it to him, I feel safe about putting pictures of it on the internet. This was the first scarf I’ve ever knit sideways (by casting on 470 stitches and knitting 40 rows, instead of casting on 40 stitches and knitting several hundred rows). I’m still not sure how I feel about the process – each way of scarf knitting has its upsides and downsides, I guess.
Either way, the scarf went from this:
To this.
(That’s linen stitch, not colourwork, so it’s actually dead easy.)
He likes it (and wears it!), so that’s more than good enough for me.
Posted: November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: dream in color, hats, projects: christmas knitting 2009, scarves&shawls, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: dream in color classy, gifts, handknit, handmade, hat, knitting, stripes | 1 Comment »
Oh man, it has not been that long since I posted. Oops.
So anyway, after that last entry full of good intentions and plans for Christmas knitting and resolve to work on my sweater, I sat down with my friend D- for coffee. And D- is a really swell guy, but sometimes his head gets cold, so he said to me: could you knit me a hat?
We have been friends for seven years. I said yes.
(This is the best picture of the hat I have, and it’s no longer mine to to photograph. I have this problem with things I knit for gifts. Anyway, it’s made of Dream in Color Classy, half from stash and half bought fresh. I used Jared Flood‘s Turn A Square pattern.)
Okay, but here is the thing. D- has a roommate, and he is also my friend. We’ll call him, I don’t know, B-. I couldn’t knit something for one without offering to knit something for the other, obviously, so I’m also making a scarf. In the same yarn.
(I’m trying my hardest not to go all Mrs. Weasley and accidentally give them matching winter wear. It’s going well so far.)
