April 29, 2005 at 4:25 pm
· Filed under knitting
Okay, I have been bad. I am going to have to crack down on myself about the number of projects. I was hoping to keep the project numbers to five or less this year. It’s not happening. I need to finish what I’ve started and not distract myself with lots of little projects when I get bored with the big projects.
I, Erica, promise not to start another sweater or large project until the Barbara Shawl, Hobo or Crazy Green sweater are finished. I know they feel neglected and probably dislike the smaller quick projects. I pledge to work on one of the above projects on a regular basis and not be side tracked by a project that will give me instant gratification. I will also work on one pair of socks at a time until the long project list is under control.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:09 am
· Filed under knitting, lace, Uncategorized
Wednesday, I spent the evening knitting with Dawn. She’s a friend that I met three years ago at the TKGA convention. We were in the Teacher’s Day together and have kept in touch since. She came bearing the gift of more fiber. :) We talked knitting and teaching most of the evening. She’s knitting a shawlette out of really pretty black and red hand-dyed (??) yarn. Photos to post soon.
Thursday, Bryan and I were both home sick. Me, with a horrible headache that gave me a stomach ache. My head was pounding when I laid down, so I mainly knitted to keep my mind off of my pounding head.
When I was out knitting with Dawn, I was working on “A Good Bias” shrug and was about five rows from finishing it. I mentioned that I wasn’t looking forward to kitchener stitching the shrug together in the same way that I stitch sock toes. I don’t mind doing the sock toes because there are usually about 16 stitches to deal with. On the shrug I knew it would be about 150. Dawn told me about a Lucy Neatby technique of using waste yarn to use as a grafting guide. It worked and the back of the shrug is grafted together. For those of you making “A Good Bias” or even “I Do” from knitty, I took step-by-step photos, which I’ll post later. I need to block out the shrug and then I’ll sew the sleeve seams.
Update: I’ve put together a small tutorial for grafting lace without using Kitchener stitch. You can find it here.
After finishing “A Good Bias,” I decided it was time to work on the Barbara Shawl. I worked six rows in about two and a half hours. It’s not as much of a pain to work on after working on “A Good Bias” because I feel I’m pretty seasoned in the lace department right now.
With a “A Good Bias” finished, I had to start something else, even though I thought I shouldn’t. I need a mindless project that isn’t socks. So when I was feeling better, I wound the yarn for my Clapotis. I’ll post a photo soon so you can see what colorway that I chose. I have about five inches of it worked so far, it’s worked from a corner, so five inches isn’t much.
Will photos all promised photos soon.
I just have to say, Toni at The Fold rocks! She was lovely enough to let me exchange my wheel on a Sunday and she sent me two pounds, yes TWO pounds, of fiber. She sent me an off white bag and a light brown bag of fiber. That with the fiber Dawn gave me, I now have a lot of off white fiber that is begging to be dyed an awesome red or green. Mmm, never thought I would be thinking of dying fiber. When I read about so many people dying fiber, I thought, “I’m not going to mess with that, I’ll just buy the fiber that’s been dyed for me.” But with everyone being so generous, I think dying maybe in my future. If I have to temporarily invade a person’s house who has a microwave, I’ll do it.
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