Went to Knitty and the free pattern for Very Tall Socks caught my eye. Once I finish Dad's Cardi and "UnNamed Mom Project," I think I'll make some of the for myself. Then I'll have an excuse to buy a cool garter belt...
Going to the Knit and Sip tomorrow, I hope. Health has not been of the good lately and I have had to pace myself. Can't blame Easter Chocolate, as this began pre-bunny.
I plan to cast on for the Cardi front panels tonight- taping West Wing as I still have not watched last week's ep.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Back finished!
After a Deb-Delinquent-Delay of TWO WEEKS, I bound off the final stitches on the back half of the cardigan. I ended up having to add an extra inch and a half of length due to Dad having a long torso.
I will fit it against him again tonight to make dead cert that the lovely thing fits JUST IN CASE.
Then it's off to the races with the front left and front right panels. These will be fun, since it is much less straightforward that the cast on 92 and stockinette forever that the back was.
But I can do it, I SWEAR.
In other news:
The Slidell Knit & Sip has moved to the Pontchartrain Branch and is now every Thursday at 2PM. I'm hoping to start an email list that may enable us to plan a group trip to Bette Bornside's in the Faubourg Marigny. I hope that they all think this is a good idea.
Also- this blog, though short, has been up for just a week shy of a month. I will soon apply for membership in the Knitting Blog ring, and hopefully they will admit me! The next time Application Open Season begins after my one-month anniversary, I'll be submitting. Wish me luck.
Just a sec'... DO'H!
Rule number 2: Your blog must show regular postings (once a week) for the last month.
Dagnabit. See, laziness will get'cha in the end. Now I gotta wait a while, all the time adding lovely bloggy bits to gain my entry fee. I knew this was too good to be true. *sigh*
I can't let the 84-degree weather here deter me from my Knitting Duties! Onward, Purl!
I will fit it against him again tonight to make dead cert that the lovely thing fits JUST IN CASE.
Then it's off to the races with the front left and front right panels. These will be fun, since it is much less straightforward that the cast on 92 and stockinette forever that the back was.
But I can do it, I SWEAR.
In other news:
The Slidell Knit & Sip has moved to the Pontchartrain Branch and is now every Thursday at 2PM. I'm hoping to start an email list that may enable us to plan a group trip to Bette Bornside's in the Faubourg Marigny. I hope that they all think this is a good idea.
Also- this blog, though short, has been up for just a week shy of a month. I will soon apply for membership in the Knitting Blog ring, and hopefully they will admit me! The next time Application Open Season begins after my one-month anniversary, I'll be submitting. Wish me luck.
Just a sec'... DO'H!
Rule number 2: Your blog must show regular postings (once a week) for the last month.
Dagnabit. See, laziness will get'cha in the end. Now I gotta wait a while, all the time adding lovely bloggy bits to gain my entry fee. I knew this was too good to be true. *sigh*
I can't let the 84-degree weather here deter me from my Knitting Duties! Onward, Purl!
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Day Eleven; Singing Hedwig, Knitting Cardis
Update: The Cardigan
After another Enlightening session with The Ladies Who Knit at the Knit & Sip, I figured out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it when it happens again. So after a few days of work, I got the required 17 plus inches of stockinette stitch done, measured against Dad's back, and am off and running again.
I am WHIPPING through this thing, I tell you. After a few false starts, I'm just flying.
Working on shaping the armhole part:
Bind off 6 stitches at the beginning of each of the next two rows
Decrease 1 stitch at each end of every other row four times. (In my case, until I'm left with 72 stitches on the needle.)
Then work even stockinette until armholes measure 9 1/2 inches. Unless Dad needs more room and we'll figure out what to do from then.
I've been playing KnitTruant lately, though. I am reading a suspense/romance series about Navy SEALs. Very cool. But I can't read and knit simultaneously, so...
I also can't knit and watch my beloved CSI... I get so focused on the forensics, I don't want to distract myself by knitting! Eeek!
One of the things that takes me a while is rolling the hanks into center-pull wheels. There's this very swell invention that does it for you (even more rapidly if you own a swift, also muy caro) but it is costly. So there I am with the hank around my bent knee, winding it slowly into center-pull balls.
Up next: Shoulder Shaping!
After another Enlightening session with The Ladies Who Knit at the Knit & Sip, I figured out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it when it happens again. So after a few days of work, I got the required 17 plus inches of stockinette stitch done, measured against Dad's back, and am off and running again.
I am WHIPPING through this thing, I tell you. After a few false starts, I'm just flying.
Working on shaping the armhole part:
Bind off 6 stitches at the beginning of each of the next two rows
Decrease 1 stitch at each end of every other row four times. (In my case, until I'm left with 72 stitches on the needle.)
Then work even stockinette until armholes measure 9 1/2 inches. Unless Dad needs more room and we'll figure out what to do from then.
I've been playing KnitTruant lately, though. I am reading a suspense/romance series about Navy SEALs. Very cool. But I can't read and knit simultaneously, so...
I also can't knit and watch my beloved CSI... I get so focused on the forensics, I don't want to distract myself by knitting! Eeek!
One of the things that takes me a while is rolling the hanks into center-pull wheels. There's this very swell invention that does it for you (even more rapidly if you own a swift, also muy caro) but it is costly. So there I am with the hank around my bent knee, winding it slowly into center-pull balls.
Up next: Shoulder Shaping!
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Ack.
Bleah.
I had to rip out the WHOLE frelling project.
Dropped stitch plus turned around loop plus something funky that happened while I was waiting for a cake to bake...
I tried to fix it, really I did. I managed to rework the dropped stitch, but it turned out that I had not only dropped it, but had knitted it when I was suposed to have purled it and then rewound the yarn in the opposite direction and.............
So I just said "Oh, to heck with it" and ripped the whole thing out and cast on again.
Le sigh. I guess I will just have to concentrate harder and FOCUS more intently.
I am on *K1 P1* row ONE.
How... enlightening.
I had to rip out the WHOLE frelling project.
Dropped stitch plus turned around loop plus something funky that happened while I was waiting for a cake to bake...
I tried to fix it, really I did. I managed to rework the dropped stitch, but it turned out that I had not only dropped it, but had knitted it when I was suposed to have purled it and then rewound the yarn in the opposite direction and.............
So I just said "Oh, to heck with it" and ripped the whole thing out and cast on again.
Le sigh. I guess I will just have to concentrate harder and FOCUS more intently.
I am on *K1 P1* row ONE.
How... enlightening.
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