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Addiction

There’s a slight possibility that I am addicted to this pattern.

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In my defense, only the yellow one is mine. The others are going to be Christmas gifts so shhh!

In other news, I keep thinking that once I finish the Big Stressful Thing that is dominating my life, I’ll have more time to do all the other stuff (like blogging more than once a week..). But then the Next Big Stressful Thing comes along and takes a huge dump on that idea.

I’m finally done with all my papers (except for one, but that’s a long story)! And now I have to pack because I’m flying home for two weeks tomorrow. Packing for short trips never seems like a big deal until you’re actually packing and you realize the sheer amount of stuff that you could potentially forget and then have to live without for two weeks and then it’s just a staggering task.

On the bright side, I’m only about three projects away from being done with the Christmas knitting!

Unfortunately, I epic failed on the planning and two of the three projects I have yet to finish are for my mom and sister, who I’m going to be living with for the next two weeks.

Andd back to packing I go.

Finished Project: Damask

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Pattern: Damask by Kitman Figueroa
Yarn: Malabrigo Sock, 1 skein
Started: May 11, 2011
Finished: May 23, 2011

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Have I mentioned how much I’m in love with this pattern? And the yarns?? The pattern came with three available sizes and all the small took was most of one skein of Malabrigo Sock yarn.

Fresh off the needles it looked so soft and squishy and on the smallish side.

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The border is my favorite. 🙂 And this is before blocking!

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I soaked it for about fifteen minutes, rolled it up in a towel and stepped on it, and then pinned it to the carpet where the wingspan grew to 50″ wide.

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The pattern looks a lot more complicated than it is. It was a little overwhelming at the beginning because it starts off with nearly 300 stitches  to keep track of and every row feels like it takes a decade to finish.
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I’m pretty sure knitting lace is my new favorite thing.

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Stitches

This weekend was highly productive in the realm of learning new stitches.

For example I learned how to make bobbles:

Bobbles

And nupps:

Damask

And the Kitchener stitch.

Kitchener stitch

Seriously, it’s like magic. Where did the seam go? Oh, yeah, it’s INVISIBLE.

I also finally figured out Row 31 (it gave me headaches for a week so it gets capitalized) of Damask, worked up to row 36, realized I’d made a mistake several rows back, ripped out to row 29, and then powered through to row 74. Have I mentioned how much I love this pattern?? She gives you directions in written and charted form, lots of lovely pictures from different angles, and three different shawl sizes. Plus the shawl itself is gorgeous. I still have about 50 rows to go, but considering it’s a bottom-up pattern, I should be done with it by tomorrow or the next day.

Yee!

I also got a library card (can I stop being an old person?) and checked out Twinkle’s Big City Knits by Wenlan Chia. The review online were terrible, but the patterns were so cute and so quick to knit up that I couldn’t resist trying one out. I finished about 80% of the Best Friend Sweater in about five hours. It’s super cute but I can’t decide if I like how huge the bobbles/cables are. I used the biggest yarn they had at Joanns but I might go back and pick up some Lion Brand Thick & Quick because it’s slightly lighter weight.

Sidenote: “Thick & Quick” = terrible nickname.

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Stitches

This weekend was highly productive in the realm of learning new stitches.

For example I learned how to make bobbles:

Bobbles

And nupps:

Damask

And the Kitchener stitch.

Kitchener stitch

Seriously, it’s like magic. Where did the seam go? Oh, yeah, it’s INVISIBLE.

I also finally figured out Row 31 (it gave me headaches for a week so it gets capitalized) of Damask, worked up to row 36, realized I’d made a mistake several rows back, ripped out to row 29, and then powered through to row 74. Have I mentioned how much I love this pattern?? She gives you directions in written and charted form, lots of lovely pictures from different angles, and three different shawl sizes. Plus the shawl itself is gorgeous. I still have about 50 rows to go, but considering it’s a bottom-up pattern, I should be done with it by tomorrow or the next day.

Yee!

I also got a library card (can I stop being an old person?) and checked out Twinkle’s Big City Knits by Wenlan Chia. The review online were terrible, but the patterns were so cute and so quick to knit up that I couldn’t resist trying one out. I finished about 80% of the Best Friend Sweater in about five hours. It’s super cute but I can’t decide if I like how huge the bobbles/cables are. I used the biggest yarn they had at Joanns but I might go back and pick up some Lion Brand Thick & Quick because it’s slightly lighter weight.

Sidenote: “Thick & Quick” = terrible nickname.

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More squishy.

Damask progress

Guess what I’ve been doing all weekend? If you guessed “Sneezing into a mountain of tissues”, “lying pitifully and feverishly in bed”, or “coughing up a lung”, you were right!

Fortunately this gave me an excuse to knit like a fiend.

I love love love this yarn. It’s so squishy. And soft. And this pattern is gorgeous! And surprisingly quick. I’m already on row 23. (We’re going to ignore the part where I had to rip out 15 rows because I messed up the decreases.)

Ok, that’s all I have. Back to lying down now.

-sniffle-

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