a little story and some knitting burbles.
We were waiting somewhere, with me sitting with Wm on my lap while standing next to me was a man with a little boy about age 4. The guy was telling the kid that babies say RAAAR and that he'd better watch out, because he'd get his arm! And at first the kid was saying "no, daddy, babies don't say that" and the dad said "no, really, any minute now!" and then Wm reached toward the kid and I said "actually, he goes for the eyes." Then the kid's older brother (age 6 or so) came over, and the original kid backed away slowly, eyes wide, and said to his brother in a serious voice "he goes for the eyes."
Sometimes Wm does growl, but sadly I can't get him to do it on command, or that really would have made the interaction.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to decide if I am insane for considering knitting this shawl in Brown Sheep Cotton Fine. It's a little shorter on yardage than the Maine Line, so the half pound cone I've got hanging around might not quite be enough, either. I suppose if I run out I could work the final repeat in a darker color. I'll give the first couple of charts a whirl and see how it goes. For future calculations, yarn + cone = 267g, if I've got ~200g gross weight left by the end of chart 3, there's plenty.
My two other shawl projects right now are both at the knitted-on edging stage. The border for the Sheep shawl (Fiber Trends) is *curling* even though it's knit in a garter-based lace. And it's curling as if it were reverse stockinette. Swatching shows that working the same lace pattern with the WS rows purled leads to a fairly flat edging. I am completely and utterly baffled by this apparent breach of knitting physics. I swatched the edging for the VLT stole and decided I didn't like the double yarn-overs, so I need to figure out what I'm going to do instead. First option is the same pattern using single YOs and working into them twice on the WS rows, otherwise I'll have to mess around and see if I can come up with something else that uses the same row repeat.
Sometimes Wm does growl, but sadly I can't get him to do it on command, or that really would have made the interaction.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to decide if I am insane for considering knitting this shawl in Brown Sheep Cotton Fine. It's a little shorter on yardage than the Maine Line, so the half pound cone I've got hanging around might not quite be enough, either. I suppose if I run out I could work the final repeat in a darker color. I'll give the first couple of charts a whirl and see how it goes. For future calculations, yarn + cone = 267g, if I've got ~200g gross weight left by the end of chart 3, there's plenty.
My two other shawl projects right now are both at the knitted-on edging stage. The border for the Sheep shawl (Fiber Trends) is *curling* even though it's knit in a garter-based lace. And it's curling as if it were reverse stockinette. Swatching shows that working the same lace pattern with the WS rows purled leads to a fairly flat edging. I am completely and utterly baffled by this apparent breach of knitting physics. I swatched the edging for the VLT stole and decided I didn't like the double yarn-overs, so I need to figure out what I'm going to do instead. First option is the same pattern using single YOs and working into them twice on the WS rows, otherwise I'll have to mess around and see if I can come up with something else that uses the same row repeat.