Zip, zip, zipping along. My thumb still feels a bit odd, but I forged onward. I would love to have it finished to wear saturday but I really kinda doubt it unless I stay up very late Friday, and HEY no deadlines for this girl!
A little sleeve shapping and then a nice, straight and ribby neckline.
Work has been a mess and busy. I have a document due tommorow, well two documents due tommorow.
meh
Well 1 more inch and then some ribbing and I'll be done with one side.
I just love the fabric and color this yarn creates.
I didn't push myself tonight, still giving the hands a bit of a rest. I have been catching up with Sex and the City at nights, and I just love watching Mikhail Baryshnikov (pssst, I know how to pronounce this one hehe). Do you have any idea who this man is? He is so amazing. My mother had a big thing for him when I was growing up. We used to sit and watch his Ballet's on VHS all the time, over and over. My mother loves Ballet, she had this one tape of him and he was like a mad scientist and he kills himself at the end and it was so amzingly done.
I reccomend the movie "White Nihgts" (1985 Drama), it was really good. Not only was he an artist, but he could do amazing things with his body, there has been no great ballet dancer sence him. He was I guess the end of an era.
I spent all weekend knitting on my tank. I just love the color of this yarn! I have gone through 2 balls of yarn sense friday night, so about 230 yards of yarn, 100g. Doesn't sound like much saying it, but it sure felt like a lot! This yarn just glows in the sunlight.
I wish I could get a detail shot of the yarn. I think it's 2 ply and the two ply's are ever so slightly different colors. It creates a very pretty fabric. I do think this yarn is less "strong" then some of it's descriptions imply. Cotton in any blend is splity and sometimes will fray.
I put it next to my shoe for scale. I am 9.5" in, and once I hit 11" I'll split the front and back to work separately. This is the fastest I have knit anything, though Tivoli went fairly fast. I am listening for once, and just knitting one thing at a time. I feel like I have hit a new level in my knitting abilities (even if it's more mental then physical).
The day was sunny, with a strong and crisp chill in the air.
Sunday night we had a bit of an adventure. The front door got STUCK closed earlier in the day. The husband tried as he might to open it, and take off the door-nob, and take the door off the hinges, but the whole entire door was stuck. Even though it was un-locked, the lock got stuck in the locked position. As in broken, no way to un-lock it.
So we called a 24 hr locksmith and $200 big ones later (have to LEAVE the house for work you know!) we have a new door nob, that happily works with our old house keys. I had no idea they could do that on the fly like he did. Kinda neat. The dogs wouldn't stop barking when he had to cut through the old lock. It was neat, he put two blow up thingies in the door and pumped air into them. That gave him enough room between the door and the door frame to stick the skinny saw blade through and cut the bolt through. Then he was able to open the door.
At first I was thinking, hrmm that's an easy way to break into a house, but then the sound of the sawblade made it clear it would not be a wise choice for a criminal.
One of the most rewarding effects of doing a Podcast is all the new people you meet! Another knitter, Wendy from KnitSanity, is also knitting the Dalegarn Trend London tank! Hers is nearly done too! Go check it out, it looks perfect!
We all know the feeling, that's why we have KAL's to begin with! All us knitters love knitting things and watching over people knit it too! It's motivational, inspiring! It's just plain fun. I love for example Grumperina's gallery with all the Picovoli's. It's neat to see how they all look knit up in different fabrics and colors.
Well the sun appears to be out, so I'm off to get some small darning needles.
I am through the ribbing and into the miles of stockinette. I wish it would go faster, but I havn't had time to knit as much as I would like.
I think these photo's are fairly color accurate.
I have struggled with this knit, as sometimes I feel it's gong to be to large, I am just going onward with it and not allowing myself to frog. I appear to have gauge so everything should be fine. It's just like shopping for clothing in the mall, all sizes are not the same even if the number matches.
No head ache last night! Apparently I am making up for the past 4 days of misery with an extreme bout of energy. Last night I jammed away on a Dalegarn Trend sleeveless top. I was going to knit the cute little v-neck shell but decided against it because it starts out by knitting two bottom bands and THEN slip stitching them to get them in the round. I just *really* wasn't in the mood and was craving some more circular madness. So I opted for the cute ribby top in this photo:
I am not going to be doing any stripes or anything fancy. I think if I like how it turns out I might knit one with stripes for my sister in the cover colors while are pinks and blacks. It's also a tad short so I'm going to make it an inch longer. All of these shells in this book are different lengths!
I was pleased with how much I got done in 2 hours last night. Casting on 200 stitches and knitting the first 2 rows for me is always frustratingly slow. I knit over an inch of 1x1 ribbing. It calls for nearly 3 inches then after that its stockinette heaven. I can't wait 'cause I know I can jam through it after that! I just adore this pale sea-foam-ish green.
So far I have 30 people subscribed to my podcast via iTunes, and 2 from some other place. That is sooo wild! In 24 hours over 2 dozen people around the country listen to my dorky self! To celebrate (and ehem.. this is why doing a podcast is BAD it makes you want to buy yarn!) I went to Cast on Cottage today. I had a reason to go you know, last night I spent over an HOUR cleaning up my craft room and organizing my stash and the motivation was I wanted to find my Colinette Wayfarer book so I could get needles for the jacket.
Oh before I digress by talking about yarn, I plan on talking about spinning in my podcast for sure, and I will talk about it in my next podcast which I have planned to create this weekend.
I nearly tore the room up and finally found it under a stack of fabric in my sewing cabinet. Size 12mm, US 17, wowza! I only have to cast on 37 stitches for the back heh! I just had a Caramel Macchiato Short from Starbucks (a very rare event that I drink coffee) and I think I might start bouncing into things!
So I found the magazine, and headed to the LYS to get some Daisy’s. Don't loose faith in me, I looked them up online last night hoping to avoid the LYS because I have no self control. The shipping in most places was the same PRICE AS THE NEEDLE! ($5) So if you know a good source of Crystal Palace needles with free shipping I would love to know about it. So well I HAD to go in you see?? When I went in I walked around the whole store, and then I passed the Dalegarn section. Svale just wouldn't leave me the hell alone! So I bought some in 7432 (50% Cotton/ 40% Viscose/10% Silk).
I had to see, cause in 2004 I got this wonderful book, Dalegarn No. 123
It has loads of very classic and modern summer knits. I am going to knit this:
Cast on Cottage actually still had a copy in the store which was surprising. It’s hard to find online.