Out with the blue
Faded blue flowers my mom gave me as a housewarming present. I haven’t finished my blue project yet, but I am looking forward to begining my purple projects for July!
3 comments June 30th, 2006
Archive for June, 2006
Obsession
I finished the back of Loll and am now working on the left front. I have noticed that I am not doing the waist shaping correctly and it’s irritating the hell out of me. In the picture the ribbing all comes together at the waist shaping. You can see how it’s supposed to go here at High Energy Knits. I knitted the waist shaping the way I interpreted the pattern. And it’s wrong. I thought about frogging and re-knitting. At least the left front panel. But fuck it. I’m so not in the mood to do that. Let’s just chalk it up to bad-reading-of-directions and leave it at that. I will try to be more careful next time.
So the Lotus Blossom Tank. . . Right after I finished my last post on that the mailman came and delivered my two balls of Bamboo Yarn. It seriously came to my front door in a flash! Kpixie rocks! The new yarn is actually a bit different from the old yarn. It most definately is the same brand and colorway. But the new yarn is much softer and the colors are brighter. I decided to start over and knit the tank using both balls of yarn, alternating each row. I got through two repeats and took a good look at it. I’m not so sure I like the way the colors together are knitting up. I really don’t want to start over AGAIN. So I am putting this aside for a bit to decide what to do. I may change my mind about it.
And finally I’m totally obsessing over this book. Knitted Babes. The copy in the picture I linked to is the library’s copy. Everytime I see it I check it out and fawn over the cute dolls. I even had dreams about them last night. I think I need to make one of these.
7 comments June 28th, 2006
Flash your Blue Stash
I finally got around to taking a picture of my blue yarn. Click the picture to see what it all is.
Still feeling really yucky. That’s about all the energy I have for today. Have a great weekend!
2 comments June 24th, 2006
Blue Fringe
Sachi requested a closeup of the fringe. There you go, Sachi! It looks kind of alien-like, don’t you think? But you can see how it would take forever to knit. Every two knits you have to fringe which takes 6 stithces. So you are knitting a hella lot of stitches when all is said and done. Right now I’m working on the arm-hole shaping. I got kind of sidetracked.
After seeing Jennifer’s beautiful Lotus Blossom tank I decided I had to have one too. Isn’t hers pretty? I looked at the pattern and noticed that it called for Southwest Trading Company’s Bamboo yarn. Hmm. That got me thinking a bit. The yarn that I knitted this little bag in was, indeed, bamboo. And it looks awfully similar to this color. I had quite a bit of that ball left over so I decided to “experiment” and cast on. I had to frog at one point because I screwed up the pattern, but the second time around I feel the zen of the pattern and it’s knitting up without a hitch. I went ahead and threw caution to the wind and ordered two balls of the SWTC yarn in the color Parrot, which I think is the same color. I know that the dye lot will be different, and, hell, it might not even be the same yarn. But I don’t care. I ordered two balls so that should be enough start over and knit the small if need be. I’m definately NOT in any way shape or form a size small, but thought that I would try the negative ease thing. It looks rather roomy on the model. We’ll see. Here’s a close-up of the lace pattern. I don’t know. maybe I just need to knit lace right now.
4 comments June 19th, 2006
Getting there
So I’m almost done with the back of Loll. That fringe on the bottom, while really challenging and kind of fun, took FOREVER. Oh my God. But I’m not complaining..oh no.
Loving the Calmer. Loving the softness. The stretchiness of it is a little weird, but oh well.
The pattern so far I’m not so sure about. Those damn Brits and their directions 
. I was just a little bit confused by a couple of things. the first thing was the amount of stitches between each fringe. When you knit the wrong side right after you do the fringe row you are supposed to purl the stitch with the fringe, and then the directions tell you to knit 3. That didn’t make sense to me at all because I had two stitches inbetween each fringe when all was said and done. So I just did want seemed right to me and purled 1 k2.
Another thing that was weird were the increases and decreases. The directions didn’t make sense to me, so I kind of did my own thing with that, too. Or maybe I did what the directions told me to do. I don’t know. It was just a bit confusing. But it all seems to be working out, so there.
So, as you know, we are all moved into my new house. I posted some pics over on the other blog, of you want to see them. But the one thing I left out of that post was my “Yarn Closet”:
I originally opened the closet to day to get a “flash your blue stash” Project Spectrum shot. But I looked in there and thought, “no.” That will have to be for another day. I don’t have the energy.
5 comments June 12th, 2006