fishy fishy
So, I knit like half a sweater, then frogged it.
It's a bottom up raglan, which I have to say is not really a way I like to go, top down to me seems way more fun, and way more accommodating to variegated yarn. It's way harder to plan out what color to end on, then it is what color to begin with. I also couldn't really try it on as easily. So to the frog pond it goes. It's this cool Merino/Angora blend of yarn that I got in Maryland. It's great and knits up fast. I need a pattern though. It's 3 stitches and inch and I havn't really been able to find an easy top down raglan pattern in that gauge, and all the knitting pattern books I have seem to have tiny necks on their sweaters and I'm not in the mood to try and rip again if my own idea didn't work out. I want mindless knitting.
Speaking of wanting mindless knitting and NOT getting it. I cast on for a Baby Suprise Jacket with some Knitpicks cotton, I re-started like 5 times but I think I have it now. I got the Schoolhouse Press DVD on a whim (heard all the raves about them) as it was only $15 on amazon.com (I looked under "Userd & New" to find a copy) and it was very much worth it, now I want all of the DVD's they sell. I am very impressed and delighted by Meg Swansen, the DVD is way more then just how to knit that pattern. It's FULL of fantastic knitting tips and she totally is in the school of "there is no WRONG way to knit" and I love that mindset. So I was confused with how on the DVD she has you place a marker IN the stitch not on the needle, that just didn't work for me. I suck at "reading" garter stitch. I can read stockinette like a champ, but garter is mysterious to me (probably because I rarely knit in garter).
Yesterday Meeko was in town and we went to Knitch (who now carries my pattern if you want to go pick one up!) and she left with loads of Baby Alpaca to make her hubby a sweater, and I left with some Rowan Scottish Tweed which I adore (for some sort of sweater for BG) and some SeaSilk. Sorry, too lazy to take pics! Today we went to the Georgia Aquarium which is new, and big, and fantastic. I do have photos of that.
BG went batty over the panguins, it was so cute. They "played" with her and she would giggle and touch the glass and squeal and they would swim up to her behind the glass and sort of play chase with her.
It was fantastic, if you are ever in Atlanta you don't want to miss it!
Comments
Nell says;
I love that she played with the penguins! Adorable!
Anne says;
Whoa synchronicity! I've just made my first BSJ. I didn't get the marker *in* the stitch thing either - I put it before the middle stitch of the 3 - for decreasing I did something like: K to st before marker. Slip 1, grab marker with lips and slide it off needle, K2tog, pass slipped st over, slide last st from RH needle to LH needle, put marker onto RH needle, slide stitch back onto RH needle, continue knitting. (Describing it makes it sound a lot more complicated than it was.) Then for increasing I just did M1, pm, K1, M1 (love, love, love the backwards loop increase).
rebecca says;
i thought i recognized that floor/glass/aquarium. we visited there a few months ago and loved the beluga whales. i could have watched them all day. and the penguins were delightful, too. looks like you were there on a weekday when you weren't so crowded in!
Ruinwen says;
BG is so cute with the fish and penguins! Sorry the whole raglan thing didn't work out.
http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/raglan.html
Don't know if this will help, but I've used it a bunch in the past. Good luck...that is such beautiful yarn! :)