On Kneedles:
Dad's Cardigan.
Current section: Back.
Cast on 92 stitches on size 6 Brittany Birch.
Took three or four tries to get right amount of tail yarn.
Time number one, too little, time number two, way too much.
Time number three WAY too little.
Time number four, just right. *SIGH*
*K1P1* rib for 1 inch.
Then switch to size 11 metal needles (for speed! WHEE!)
and stockinette stitch until piece measures 16 1/2 inches length.
I am just at about 4 inches total.
I am going to bed now since my hands are tired from swatching (and baking chocolate chip cookies!) and then casting on FOREVER and Jay Leno should have Headlines tonight.
I've been wearing my headphones and switching from The DIVA to local Lite station. Music helps.
Monday, February 28, 2005
And now, for something completely knittish...
I felt as if it was time I yawned and stretched and tried to come alive.
So my knit-work commentary will split off from my usual tragicomic ramblings and be living here instead. This will ensure that, when I join a Knitting Ring, the members who take a gander won't be horrified by the histrionics that have come to play a large part of my CROAK blog.
So.
Last finished project:
Crocheted a tube potholder in Peaches & Creme "Shades of Green" for Mom. I'm getting good at these.
Project in Planning Stages:
Dad's Cardigan.
From a Red Cross pattern circa 1958; it will utilize the Inherited Stash of British and American Shetland-type Wools from my Grandmother.
This ought to be an interesting project. The pattern will have to be fudged slightly at arm length and armhole girth due to the fact that my Dad has wider shoulders and longer arms than the average circa-1958 male. I'm not worried (maybe I ought to be!) about it- I have faith that my blind blithe merry ways will concoct a Cardi that works.
I'm working up a swatch on Size 5s instead of the recommended 4s since I tend towards a tight gauge. I will have to purchase longer size 5s than the ones I have now because even I know that I can't cast on 92 stitches with those shorties.
The wools I'm working with are
So my knit-work commentary will split off from my usual tragicomic ramblings and be living here instead. This will ensure that, when I join a Knitting Ring, the members who take a gander won't be horrified by the histrionics that have come to play a large part of my CROAK blog.
So.
Last finished project:
Crocheted a tube potholder in Peaches & Creme "Shades of Green" for Mom. I'm getting good at these.
Project in Planning Stages:
Dad's Cardigan.
From a Red Cross pattern circa 1958; it will utilize the Inherited Stash of British and American Shetland-type Wools from my Grandmother.
This ought to be an interesting project. The pattern will have to be fudged slightly at arm length and armhole girth due to the fact that my Dad has wider shoulders and longer arms than the average circa-1958 male. I'm not worried (maybe I ought to be!) about it- I have faith that my blind blithe merry ways will concoct a Cardi that works.
I'm working up a swatch on Size 5s instead of the recommended 4s since I tend towards a tight gauge. I will have to purchase longer size 5s than the ones I have now because even I know that I can't cast on 92 stitches with those shorties.
The wools I'm working with are
- "Britania, A Shetland Type Yarn" as quoted from the label. 100% Wool, Walnut Brown.
- "Brunswick's Heatherblend Sport for the Shetland Look" from Brunswick Worsted Mills in South Carolina. 80% DuPont Orlon Ardina, 20% Virgin Wool in Bisque Heather.
Reading "Hollywood Knits" by Suss Cousins. She's designed many things for many projects, including Neo's sweater in The Matrix Reloaded. Oh, by the way, y'all Fake Shemp fans: "In the year 2525, three women keep hope alive" and one of them shops at Suss' store. Go, GINA TORRES! Whoo!
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