Posted: May 25th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: lorna's laces shepherd worsted, projects: worsted owl cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: crafty, frogging, knit, knitting, lorna's laces, mistakes, owls, purple, sweater | No Comments »
So, about ten minutes after I wrote my last entry, I put my sweater onto some scrap yarn and tried it on.
Yeah.
The yoke was terrible. Too low in the back, too big all around, weird-looking, and I could tell from looking at the pattern directions that it wasn’t going to get fixed by extrapolating the proportions I’d worked out – my worsted-weight row gauge was just too small for the yoke directions to make any sense. I’m not going to lie, the sweater and I almost had to go on a break.
The pie helped.
Also, I had the bright idea of looking at other sweater patterns knit in worsted weight with garter stitch round yokes (although I did toy with just throwing my hands up and doing a raglan yoke, a la February Lady), which led me to Cobblestone.
It also led me to frogging back down to the end of the owl cable panel and starting the yoke all over, but whatever. Nobody ever died from that.
Posted: May 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: lorna's laces shepherd worsted, projects: worsted owl cardigan, sweaters, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: cardigan, craft, crafty, grey, handmade, knit, knits in progress, knitting, lorna's laces, owls, purple, steek, sweater, yoke | 1 Comment »
You guyyys this sweater. It makes me so happy. I was really, really nervous about starting the yoke, because I wasn’t sure if the purple would look stupid or the math on the owls would work out funny (knitting it steeked, I had to make sure that not only was the yoke a multiple of ten, but it was a multiple of ten before the steek and a multiple of ten after the steek). But I’m, like, 90% sure it looks awesome and I’m a rockstar at knitting. For the record? 33 owls.
Naturally, because the owl pattern is 20 rows long and I am knitting at a much smaller gauge than the pattern calls for, my yoke was too short to start the decreases right away. So I added on an inch or so of garter stitch, which again – I was nervous about it looking stupid, but it works much better than I thought it would. The decreases are going to be an experiment, but we’ll see how they go. I have high hopes.
Song of the Entry: Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester – Good Girls Go Bad (Listen)
Posted: May 8th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: non-crafty | Tags: close-up, flowers, macro, photography, purple, spring, still life, tulips | No Comments »
I’m taking a few days to do a little less of this and a little more creating and relaxing, because it turns out that when you don’t do that for a while, life is less fun.
I bought these on the way home from the grocery store, even though I clearly don’t own any vases. The weather here is gorgeous, and making it feel almost like summer. Even though I appear to have entirely missed daffodil season, which is tragically short (daffodils are amazing, I cannot mention this enough), flowers are important.
Song of the Entry: Ingrid Michaelson – You and I (Listen)
