lots of knitting. i'm titling all entries now so you can click on them from my myspace.
hey i haven't talked about knitting in a while!!
ahahaha. oh, i know how y'all love to hear about the YARN! (seriously: rene's reason why he stopped reading my lj, except for the most upsetting posts, of course, is that i talk about knitting every other entry. sorry, sister, that's what i do. anyway. enough about you, let's talk about HER! her being the yarn. i have these things to do, you see; they are better than thinking about that dork. so here i go. not thinking about him. at all.)
so. guess what i am knitting.
i am knitting a JAYNE HAT. (for you poor sad people who did not see serenity or firefly, whichever was the show and not the movie (i know, i know, revoke my geek card here and now) this is what is it.) it is for chris. he bought the yarn. (also known as: he bought me yarn! two thirds of it is, well, redskins colors. i could make something for dad with the leftovers of the red and gold! and then, um... felted pumpkins with the orange?) also i am knitting something that is a surprise (unless you find my projects on ravelry) with the leftovers of the yarn. actually, it looks like i could knit another couple of hats with the leftover yarn. so. um. i might also have a hat for myself? which i would not mind at all. the yarn is awesome when used doubled. i don't know what it is about it, it's just... it's got the right weight to it. not like sockweight, laceweight, but actual heft. feels good. (the yarn, btw is brown sheep cotton fleece. because i know you care. oh, also, note to self, while we're in parentheses: when casting on a large number of stitches which are intended to go onto dpns, don't just use one dpn. it is too short. use a straight needle, which is longer and will hold all the stitches needed for an adult-sized hat. then knit them off with dpns, distributing as you go.)
past-life shawl update: it is 3.5 feet wide. which is not really wide enough for a Fully Awesome Shawl (5'2" is where i want it, really). i think i'm going to have to be using all six skeins. i was thinking about just using 5--which i might do, and use one for the edging. which might have beads, i haven't decided. just a simple knitted-on leafy edging. then again i might end it with three repeats of simple yo/k2tog garter lace.
sockness: i... started socks with the yarn from my sock blank (dyed in stripes and various other patterns in blue and brown and purplish-odd whree they mixed). i was going to do toe-up stockinette socks, to see how the colors play. and then, i forget why, i ripped that toe and started some nutkins (only on mine, the pattern is mirrored on itself, pointing up on the back and down on the front, instead of all going in the same direction). then, after... 4 repeats or so, i tried them on. seriously could hardly get them over the ball of my foot. damn you, biased fabric! anyway, so i ripped those and restarted on twos (originally ones). so far i have... one row knit. and the cast-on row. uh.
dude, actually? these have a really cool cuff. it's the thing where you knit a few rows, purl a row, knit a few more, then knit the cast-on row together with the working row, folding the fabric over into a cute little facing. it feels luxurious and is sooo much prettier than ribbing. facings all the way from now on! but wait. i don't think you can do a knitted-in (as opposed to sewn-in) facing on toe-up socks. DAMN. need a new plan for world domination now.
anyway, yes, happy things happen too. also i have still not slept. i don't really want to. but eventually, surely, i will. maybe. maybe.
ahahaha. oh, i know how y'all love to hear about the YARN! (seriously: rene's reason why he stopped reading my lj, except for the most upsetting posts, of course, is that i talk about knitting every other entry. sorry, sister, that's what i do. anyway. enough about you, let's talk about HER! her being the yarn. i have these things to do, you see; they are better than thinking about that dork. so here i go. not thinking about him. at all.)
so. guess what i am knitting.
i am knitting a JAYNE HAT. (for you poor sad people who did not see serenity or firefly, whichever was the show and not the movie (i know, i know, revoke my geek card here and now) this is what is it.) it is for chris. he bought the yarn. (also known as: he bought me yarn! two thirds of it is, well, redskins colors. i could make something for dad with the leftovers of the red and gold! and then, um... felted pumpkins with the orange?) also i am knitting something that is a surprise (unless you find my projects on ravelry) with the leftovers of the yarn. actually, it looks like i could knit another couple of hats with the leftover yarn. so. um. i might also have a hat for myself? which i would not mind at all. the yarn is awesome when used doubled. i don't know what it is about it, it's just... it's got the right weight to it. not like sockweight, laceweight, but actual heft. feels good. (the yarn, btw is brown sheep cotton fleece. because i know you care. oh, also, note to self, while we're in parentheses: when casting on a large number of stitches which are intended to go onto dpns, don't just use one dpn. it is too short. use a straight needle, which is longer and will hold all the stitches needed for an adult-sized hat. then knit them off with dpns, distributing as you go.)
past-life shawl update: it is 3.5 feet wide. which is not really wide enough for a Fully Awesome Shawl (5'2" is where i want it, really). i think i'm going to have to be using all six skeins. i was thinking about just using 5--which i might do, and use one for the edging. which might have beads, i haven't decided. just a simple knitted-on leafy edging. then again i might end it with three repeats of simple yo/k2tog garter lace.
sockness: i... started socks with the yarn from my sock blank (dyed in stripes and various other patterns in blue and brown and purplish-odd whree they mixed). i was going to do toe-up stockinette socks, to see how the colors play. and then, i forget why, i ripped that toe and started some nutkins (only on mine, the pattern is mirrored on itself, pointing up on the back and down on the front, instead of all going in the same direction). then, after... 4 repeats or so, i tried them on. seriously could hardly get them over the ball of my foot. damn you, biased fabric! anyway, so i ripped those and restarted on twos (originally ones). so far i have... one row knit. and the cast-on row. uh.
dude, actually? these have a really cool cuff. it's the thing where you knit a few rows, purl a row, knit a few more, then knit the cast-on row together with the working row, folding the fabric over into a cute little facing. it feels luxurious and is sooo much prettier than ribbing. facings all the way from now on! but wait. i don't think you can do a knitted-in (as opposed to sewn-in) facing on toe-up socks. DAMN. need a new plan for world domination now.
anyway, yes, happy things happen too. also i have still not slept. i don't really want to. but eventually, surely, i will. maybe. maybe.