So as I've recently finished a bunch of things, I'm looking over my current UFO's and the list comes down to this:
1) Cashmere Leaves Scarf
2) Handspun socks
3) Basketweave blanket
4) Wash’s sweater of DOOOOOOOMMMM!!
5) Aeolian shawl
6) Night Blooms Shawl
7) Evenstar shawl
8) Chucks socks (new WIP i cast on in celebration of finishing 3 UFO’s)
This really isn't a bad list. The shawls are the most long term and most work projects. The Chucks will be finished in a few days and the Handspun socks will probably be frogged and re-cast on. The basketweave blanket is a very low key and mindless project for now and it will be so until it is time to actually sew the thing together. So that leaves the scarf, which is boring and the sweater which is the sweater of DOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!! I really don't want to frog it and I really can't seem to get motivated to knit on it. BAH!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Lack of posts
There has been a lack of posts lately and this is mostly because there has been a lack of photos lately. Since I last blogged, I've managed to finish 4 projects. Well, in all fairness, I finished 3 over the last 3 days (went on a "finishing-bing"). And I even managed to take a picture of one of those projects:
Behold! My gorgeous Ulmus shawl, made from the last two Blue Moon club kits from last year. This is my third blocked project (the second is one of those yet to be photographed).
I'm extremely pleased with my color choices. And I will be posting pictures of me wearing the shawl soon.
Behold! My gorgeous Ulmus shawl, made from the last two Blue Moon club kits from last year. This is my third blocked project (the second is one of those yet to be photographed).
I'm extremely pleased with my color choices. And I will be posting pictures of me wearing the shawl soon.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Finishing Socks!
I finished another pair of socks! They are another set of self patterning socks knit from Knitpicks Felici - i love this yarn! They have recently come up with new Felici colors...I'm so tempted!!! But i'm sticking to my yarn diet and I've told myself that when I finish knitting the 10 pairs of socks from my resolutions list, I am allowed to purchase some more sock yarn.
I had also promised more pictures of my Soleil tank after it had been blocked and here they are:
As it turns out, this may be one of the best constructions of tops to properly flatter my figure. Amy of stash, knit, repeat has been blogging a series called Fit to Flatter that has been very helpful and it is helping me make better choices in the patterns I pick out.
Now, I'm going to work on knitting one of Amy's other designs - a sock pattern that is awesome. Unfortunately my choice of colors is just terrible at showing Amy's wonderful design but i'm going to keep chugging along on it anyway.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Summer Tank
I started the Soleil Tank last May but put it aside probably when i started working on the Aeolian shawl. Last week I joined a Ravelry group dedicated to finishing the UFO's and they have lots of fun knitters on the group and they are very encouraging. I pulled out the Tank from it's bag, fluffed it out and figured out where i was in the pattern. Once i did, i realize just how close i was to finishing - within 3 days i had the thing completed!
Here are some pictures of it unblocked:
The pictures aren't fantastic because of the harsh light but i'll be putting up more pictures when it has been blocked anyway.
This sweater qualifies for 1 of 2 sweaters to be knit up for this year's resolution.
Here are some pictures of it unblocked:
The pictures aren't fantastic because of the harsh light but i'll be putting up more pictures when it has been blocked anyway.
This sweater qualifies for 1 of 2 sweaters to be knit up for this year's resolution.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Another pair of socks completed
I finished knitting another pair of socks. Sherri is right, there is something about knitting on DPNs that makes the socks at least seem to knit up faster. Whatever it is, I like it! I like finishing a pair of socks in 4 days - that's right! 4 days!!!
I knit them out of Blue Moon Socks that Rock Lightweight in Petrified Wood colorway. Once again, I knit the foot purl side out. It seemed very odd to me to knit the socks so short but I know Winter would like them. Yes, these are another pair of Winter socks. :)
Next I cast on some socks for me.
I knit them out of Blue Moon Socks that Rock Lightweight in Petrified Wood colorway. Once again, I knit the foot purl side out. It seemed very odd to me to knit the socks so short but I know Winter would like them. Yes, these are another pair of Winter socks. :)
Next I cast on some socks for me.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Yarn Diet and Crawl
I've been on a yarn diet since the beginning of the year. I promised myself that if I made no yarn or fiber purchases by the end of March that I would allow myself a few small purchases. Well, I successfully made it to the end of March without any purchases. And a large group of us also went on a yarn crawl yesterday. How awesome is that!
I'm proud to say that I kept things very controlled. This is the entirety of my yarn purchase:
That little white skein on the top of the picture is laceweight cotton - over 1500 yards! Is that incredible or what!?! The others are beautiful sock yarns.
I also purchased some really beautiful cable needles:
I'm proud to say that I kept things very controlled. This is the entirety of my yarn purchase:
That little white skein on the top of the picture is laceweight cotton - over 1500 yards! Is that incredible or what!?! The others are beautiful sock yarns.
I also purchased some really beautiful cable needles:
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Entrelac Socks
A few weeks ago I came up with the clever plan to knit a pair of socks with Entrelac to fulfill 2 new year's resolutions items: 1) knit 10 pairs of socks and 2) knit something Entrelac. I know, I'm a total genius :)
I emailed sockJulie (to be distinguished from capecodJulie) to see if she had ever knit Entrelac socks before and if she had any advise for me. She replied that she had not but had always wanted to knit such a pair. So we decided to do a knit along.
First I'll talk about my socks. I picked a ball of Blue Moon Socks that Rock in Lightweight that Karen had gifted me last year (she is such a sweetie!) and then left on a trip. HAHA! Didn't see that comin', did ya! By the time I got back sockJulie had almost finished 1 sock and it is beautiful. I will put up a link to her project when she puts it up. It took me some time to get settled in from my trip and I was also distracted by a few things so before I even started, sockJulie had already finished her first sock and this thing is something to marvel at (I will explain why later). Well, of course, I started furiously knitting on my sock in order to catch up and the final result is this:
Marvel at the beauty of the handpainted colors as they gently pool in little squares and triangles. Admire my flawless technique and hand...[I'm going to stop now as this could go on for a while]
Let's examine the structure of Entrelac when it is knit in the round:
The entrelac is basically made up of Starting Triangles, followed by 1st Tier of Squares, followed by 2nd Tier of squares and then the desired number of 1st and 2nd tiers and at the end you have the Ending Triangles. Quite simple really - just trust and follow a good pattern, that's all there is to it. In that aspect it is ironic that I chose to try this technique for the first time with a sock; a sock is much the same in that it does not make sense the first time you knit a sock, you just have to trust and follow the pattern and you will understand the concept fully after you have finished knitting it.
The pattern sockJulie chose is called Annetrelac Socks (the designer's name incidentally is not Anne, go figure) and in this pattern, you do the entrelac on the leg and then do a plain knit on the foot as I did. sockJulie however, decided to do the entrelac all the way down the foot - now imagine this with the schematic I put up above! Basically, she did the starting triangles, a few tiers of squares and then she split her stitches to do the heel and so had to do ending triangles on half of the stitches and continue the tiers of squares in the front; after she finished the heel, she had to do another set of starting triangles on half the stitches while maintaining the active tier of squares! The thought boggles my mind - she is an amazing knitter! As I said, I'll put up a link as soon as she puts up her project.
Here is yet another picture of my gorgeous handiwork! LOL. As you can see, the foot looks inside out. That's right, I put the purl bumps on the outside. I chose to do this because my experience with this yarn is while it is very soft, the purl bumps bother the bottom of my feet when I wear them with shoes or boots. So when I finished knitting the leg, I turned the sock inside out and changed the direction of knitting by doing a wrap and turn and then continued knitting the heel onwards. So basically I still knit the whole foot, but I did it while the sock was inside out; I learned about this trick on one of Knitpicks' podcast episodes and thought what a clever idea to get all the purl bumps on the outside without purling the whole foot.
I am extremely happy with the socks and am giving them to Winter. Winter is knitting me a shawl! So I've decided to knit her a few pairs of socks. :) I can't believe I'm going to get one of Winter's gorgeous lace shawls! YAY!!!!
I emailed sockJulie (to be distinguished from capecodJulie) to see if she had ever knit Entrelac socks before and if she had any advise for me. She replied that she had not but had always wanted to knit such a pair. So we decided to do a knit along.
First I'll talk about my socks. I picked a ball of Blue Moon Socks that Rock in Lightweight that Karen had gifted me last year (she is such a sweetie!) and then left on a trip. HAHA! Didn't see that comin', did ya! By the time I got back sockJulie had almost finished 1 sock and it is beautiful. I will put up a link to her project when she puts it up. It took me some time to get settled in from my trip and I was also distracted by a few things so before I even started, sockJulie had already finished her first sock and this thing is something to marvel at (I will explain why later). Well, of course, I started furiously knitting on my sock in order to catch up and the final result is this:
Marvel at the beauty of the handpainted colors as they gently pool in little squares and triangles. Admire my flawless technique and hand...[I'm going to stop now as this could go on for a while]
Let's examine the structure of Entrelac when it is knit in the round:
The entrelac is basically made up of Starting Triangles, followed by 1st Tier of Squares, followed by 2nd Tier of squares and then the desired number of 1st and 2nd tiers and at the end you have the Ending Triangles. Quite simple really - just trust and follow a good pattern, that's all there is to it. In that aspect it is ironic that I chose to try this technique for the first time with a sock; a sock is much the same in that it does not make sense the first time you knit a sock, you just have to trust and follow the pattern and you will understand the concept fully after you have finished knitting it.
The pattern sockJulie chose is called Annetrelac Socks (the designer's name incidentally is not Anne, go figure) and in this pattern, you do the entrelac on the leg and then do a plain knit on the foot as I did. sockJulie however, decided to do the entrelac all the way down the foot - now imagine this with the schematic I put up above! Basically, she did the starting triangles, a few tiers of squares and then she split her stitches to do the heel and so had to do ending triangles on half of the stitches and continue the tiers of squares in the front; after she finished the heel, she had to do another set of starting triangles on half the stitches while maintaining the active tier of squares! The thought boggles my mind - she is an amazing knitter! As I said, I'll put up a link as soon as she puts up her project.
Here is yet another picture of my gorgeous handiwork! LOL. As you can see, the foot looks inside out. That's right, I put the purl bumps on the outside. I chose to do this because my experience with this yarn is while it is very soft, the purl bumps bother the bottom of my feet when I wear them with shoes or boots. So when I finished knitting the leg, I turned the sock inside out and changed the direction of knitting by doing a wrap and turn and then continued knitting the heel onwards. So basically I still knit the whole foot, but I did it while the sock was inside out; I learned about this trick on one of Knitpicks' podcast episodes and thought what a clever idea to get all the purl bumps on the outside without purling the whole foot.
I am extremely happy with the socks and am giving them to Winter. Winter is knitting me a shawl! So I've decided to knit her a few pairs of socks. :) I can't believe I'm going to get one of Winter's gorgeous lace shawls! YAY!!!!
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