As Clapotis nears completion, it's time to start thinking about what goes on the needles next. Likely suspects:
1. Socks. Got my needles. Got my yarn. Got my patterns. I've cast on twice. I've frogged twice. I'll try again soon.
2. Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet. Not entirely my style, but I need something to wear over the strapless dress that I'm planning on wearing to my niece's dousing. Plus, I'd get to dye some more yarn for the project. The dress just happens to be brown and Berry Blue Lemonade-Aqua.
3. Sleeveless summer sweater of my own design. I used to have two cowl necked sleeveless sweaters that I wore until they were holey. I'd love to recreate them.
4. Ripple blanket. This one's a cheat. I think I've persuaded my mother to crochet one for me. I guess that means I'll actually have to get her a Mother's Day gift this year.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
A Weekend of Yarn
Dyeing with Kool Aid is fun! The yarn smells like Kool Aid! Um, that's just about all I have to say about that.
Mmmm, tie-dye-ie yarn soup.
So, I'm ever so slightly obsessed with this whole ripple blanket thing. Obsessed enough to learn how to double crochet, increase, and decrease in order to do a swatch. Not a perfect swatch, but a swatch nonetheless. Now, if I can only convince my mom to do the actually crocheting, I'll be in ripply blanket heaven in no time.
... and clapotis marches on.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Weekend
Hmm, whatever could I be doing this weekend?
Need another hint?
I’m going to try using these instructions and stuff learned while perusing this monster thread to try and create something like this or this.
Need another hint?
I’m going to try using these instructions and stuff learned while perusing this monster thread to try and create something like this or this.
Monday, March 12, 2007
FO #1
It’s the first finished object of 2007. It’s Rogue, also known as The Unphotographical Sweater. Yes, it is well into March. Yes, sweaters take me a while, but in all fairness, the knitting has been done for a couple of weeks.
Pattern: Rogue from the Girl from Auntie
Begun: 12/26/06 Finished: 3/10/07
Size: 39”, but blocked a touch bigger
Yarn: Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes (what a bargain) in Chocolate, 11 skeins
Needles: Size 8 (circular and dpn for body and sleeves), Size 5 (circular and dpn for hem facing)
Mods: Knit the sleeves in the round (looking back, I should have eliminated a couple of stitches to compensate for the non-seaming). Knit in the bottom and sleeve hems instead of sewing down the hem at the end. Did a little short-row mod on the hood. Screwed up on the arm shaping on the back. Skipped the kangaroo pocket, and it’s a good thing since there I only had half a skein left at the end.
Thoughts: Rogue is a very nicely written pattern. I do wish that I’d found and red the faq on The Girl from Auntie site for a couple of tips before I did the bulk of my knitting. The only problems I had were the above mentioned back shaping and the hood finishing. After the adventures with cable grafting (which was not all that bad in hindsight), I did have some problems attaching the hood to the cable panel. Even after adding some extra decreases and short rows and blocking, the hood is a little wonky. But, as it will generally just lie on my back, I can live with it.
The sleeves knit up very nicely on dpns in the round. The cable charts are crystal clear (particularly after you read the faq), and would not be unreasonable for a cable beginner. The cable shaping on the sides is very clever and unexpected and gives a nice little bit of shaping to an otherwise boxy sweater. The real rave I have is for how well the sleeves fit into the armholes- perfectly. It was almost a pleasure to sew together. Almost.
Okay, back to clapotis. And maybe those socks that I still haven’t started.
Pattern: Rogue from the Girl from Auntie
Begun: 12/26/06 Finished: 3/10/07
Size: 39”, but blocked a touch bigger
Yarn: Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes (what a bargain) in Chocolate, 11 skeins
Needles: Size 8 (circular and dpn for body and sleeves), Size 5 (circular and dpn for hem facing)
Mods: Knit the sleeves in the round (looking back, I should have eliminated a couple of stitches to compensate for the non-seaming). Knit in the bottom and sleeve hems instead of sewing down the hem at the end. Did a little short-row mod on the hood. Screwed up on the arm shaping on the back. Skipped the kangaroo pocket, and it’s a good thing since there I only had half a skein left at the end.
Thoughts: Rogue is a very nicely written pattern. I do wish that I’d found and red the faq on The Girl from Auntie site for a couple of tips before I did the bulk of my knitting. The only problems I had were the above mentioned back shaping and the hood finishing. After the adventures with cable grafting (which was not all that bad in hindsight), I did have some problems attaching the hood to the cable panel. Even after adding some extra decreases and short rows and blocking, the hood is a little wonky. But, as it will generally just lie on my back, I can live with it.
The sleeves knit up very nicely on dpns in the round. The cable charts are crystal clear (particularly after you read the faq), and would not be unreasonable for a cable beginner. The cable shaping on the sides is very clever and unexpected and gives a nice little bit of shaping to an otherwise boxy sweater. The real rave I have is for how well the sleeves fit into the armholes- perfectly. It was almost a pleasure to sew together. Almost.
Okay, back to clapotis. And maybe those socks that I still haven’t started.
Friday, March 09, 2007
A List
Things that are currently driving me nuts:
Waking up an hour or so before my alarm and being unable to go back to sleep every day for almost a week.
Winding yarn into balls by hand. (It would be so nice to have a ball winder and swift, but I don’t really want to shell out for them right now and I currently have nowhere to store them.)
The fact that my local market sells fresh truffles and about a hundred different kinds of hot sauce, but no Kool-Aid.
Things that I think are just neat:
Discount Al-Clad
The new Knitty, particularly the cleverly cabled Torque and the pretty, pretty Isabella.
Clapotis progress. (I’m through the first two stitch drops… 11 to go.)
The new lunch bag that I picked up this weekend. The neoprene is insulating, stretchy and machine washable! Mr. Beagle got one as well to replace his nasty old lunch bag.
The McSweeney’s Baby, be of use books. I saw these a couple of months ago and got a kick out of them, then they popped up on Apartment Therapy the today. I’ll have to get a couple to gift to my parental-type friends. (Yes, I look at the Nursery at Apartment Therapy now and then, it means nothing.)
Waking up an hour or so before my alarm and being unable to go back to sleep every day for almost a week.
Winding yarn into balls by hand. (It would be so nice to have a ball winder and swift, but I don’t really want to shell out for them right now and I currently have nowhere to store them.)
The fact that my local market sells fresh truffles and about a hundred different kinds of hot sauce, but no Kool-Aid.
Things that I think are just neat:
Discount Al-Clad
The new Knitty, particularly the cleverly cabled Torque and the pretty, pretty Isabella.
Clapotis progress. (I’m through the first two stitch drops… 11 to go.)
The new lunch bag that I picked up this weekend. The neoprene is insulating, stretchy and machine washable! Mr. Beagle got one as well to replace his nasty old lunch bag.
The McSweeney’s Baby, be of use books. I saw these a couple of months ago and got a kick out of them, then they popped up on Apartment Therapy the today. I’ll have to get a couple to gift to my parental-type friends. (Yes, I look at the Nursery at Apartment Therapy now and then, it means nothing.)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Some People
I finished a meeting reminder on Monday with "Pie and Punch.". Only one atendee got it. My boss skipped lunch, expecting pie. Sigh. Wasn't this a requirement in college?
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Got Away
Mr. Beagle and I headed north on Friday for a long weekend here:
I love going places in the off-season and Sonoma is no exception. There are so many fewer people, it's not too hot to taste reds, and sometimes you luck out and get a warm, clear weekend like we did. We did plenty of tastings (I would recommend tasting at Eric Ross in Glen Ellen and then heading across the street to Raymond and Co. Cheesemongers to try some amazing cheeses), ate well, and went on a hike that started at our B&B and took us here:
I got a good start on the Clapotis:
And came home to more yarn:
And sock supplies:
I love going places in the off-season and Sonoma is no exception. There are so many fewer people, it's not too hot to taste reds, and sometimes you luck out and get a warm, clear weekend like we did. We did plenty of tastings (I would recommend tasting at Eric Ross in Glen Ellen and then heading across the street to Raymond and Co. Cheesemongers to try some amazing cheeses), ate well, and went on a hike that started at our B&B and took us here:
I got a good start on the Clapotis:
And came home to more yarn:
And sock supplies:
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