Things I’ve been meaning to do:
-post a finished project page for my Waffle socks
-ditto Beatnik
-post pictures of my Cozy Bolero
-write a blog post period
I blame the fact that I haven’t taken any of those photos yet, which makes it a bit difficult to post nonexistent photos. -snark-
As a peace offering, I leave you with an updated photo of my Demi sweater, which I’m pretty much ready to run away and have little sweater babies with.
Things I’ve been meaning to do:
-post a finished project page for my Waffle socks
-ditto Beatnik
-post pictures of my Cozy Bolero
-write a blog post period
I blame the fact that I haven’t taken any of those photos yet, which makes it a bit difficult to post nonexistent photos. -snark-
As a peace offering, I leave you with an updated photo of my Demi sweater, which I’m pretty much ready to run away and have little sweater babies with.
Andd here are the photos that go with the previous post.
Firstly, Waffle Socks! I highly recommend these guys. I knitted them knee-length and they’re delicious. They’re knit in DK too, so it knits up pretty quickly.
Next up is Hermione Stripey McRainbowpants v2.0. I still think I’m a little bit insane for knitting each of my Hermione sweaters twice. Maybe this is an indication that I should start swatching.
Then there is Demi, which currently looks far more interesting than it does in this photo, as I’ve worked about 40 rows since taking it.
Terrible photo but here is proof that Beatnik is 99% finished!! It’s been pinned like that and drying for two days so maybe tonight I can seam the sleeves together! Yee!
I was so good this weekend, I kind of feel like I deserve a medal. Or a shopping spree at mryarn.com (I’m only half kidding).
First of all, I finished Beatnik! Finally! It’s currently pinned to my carpet drying at the rate of a snail’s crawl. I haven’t attached the sleeves yet because they came out a bit too tight so I stretched them out like crazy and I’m hoping it’ll loosen them up a bit so I won’t have to re-knit them.
Then I also finished my Waffle socks! They’re so cozy looking I want to just curl up in bed with a mug of hot cocoa and pet them. Except then I would probably fall asleep and spill hot cocoa all over them and me and that’s just not pleasant.
I also started two projects over the weekend that are making me squee with glee. One is a Hermione Stripey McRainbowpants v2.0. I made one a few months ago but as I mentioned previously, it was before I understood the concept of gauge and therefore it came out far too small. Plus the gray was too dark and I also hadn’t mastered the concept of mixing fibers and therefore I was using cotton for two of the stripes and it just turned out too shiny compared to all of the wool.
Second is what is turning out to be my favoritest project ever, except the “tbl”‘s. Those are driving me insane and if I get arthritis one day I’m placing all of the blame on this project. I reaaally wanted to knit Kim Hargreaves’ Demi after seeing the gorgeous one Mags made, but I couldn’t justify spending $30 on a pattern book when there was only one pattern I liked in it (ok, I might probably knit Aimee too).
Anyway, I had a Jo-ann coupon that was about to expire and I happened to be wandering through Jo-ann (*innocentstare*) and a skein of Lion Brand Fisherman wool happened to fall into my hands and somehow went home with me.
PS I love this yarn.
The only thing is that I’m about 25 rows into the pattern (holysmallcharts) and I can’t decide if I should frog it and make the XS instead of the S. I have kind of an annoying figure for knitting projects (long torso/arms, tiny waist, D-cup breasticles). I don’t want to look like a hobo in this sweater but I also want to avoid pornographic chest cabling.
Andd on that note, back to work. I miss the weekend already.
Time to cross another item off the List of Things That Always Seemed Too Complicated For Me To Figure Out. (First item on that list was knitting cables!)
It’s PLIED!
I mean, not very well and you can see where some bits are much fatter than others but it’s PLIED!!
I spun about 50 grams of undyed roving last night (I tried dyeing some roving last week and I’m too afraid of accidentally felting it so I’m going to spin the rest of it before deciding if I want to dye it), and after watching a ton of youtube videos, I attempted the Andean plying method.
I was originally going to go with the Navajo method because it sounded so simple (just huge single crochet chains, right?) but everyone on the internet seemed to be think this method was easier so I tried this one first (it was really easy).
After I wound it all on to my hand, I wound a double stranded ball back onto the toilet paper roll thing and then all I did was spin that in the opposite direction of the original spin to get the ply. Then I measured a chair back (37″ all the way around) and started winding the yarn around the chair.
I forgot about the fact that I have a Turkish spindle and started winding the yarn on top. It worked fine until it started poofing up the top like the fluffy bits on the tips of corn.
After it was all wound, I tied it off in figure eights in two places on the front and two places in the back.
Happy fun soaking times. (In hot water.)
And now it’s hanging off of my door, waiting to dry. It’s hanging off of a hanger and weighted down by two other hangers, which are holding a towel between them to catch any dripping water. It kind of looks hilarious.
Ok, now back to spinning. I have 450 more grams of this stuff to spin. 🙂