should have taken pictures last night
I thought I was on a knitting roll yesterday. With the fair isle vest, I felt like I was achieving that state where the rows go more quickly than physically possible, given how much more time each stitch takes. (The Yarn Harlot is so right about this. She has a great post about it. She even did an experiment - great stuff!) The slowness is especially true for me, as I've been pretty religious about weaving when I have to carry for more than 4 stitches, and the weaving thing is still pretty slow and clumsy for me. (There has got to be a more convenient way to do it. Some people don't float at all! Are they weaving geniuses, or does it just take them years to knit a sweater?)
I also thought I was on a knitting roll with the GWTF sock, which I worked on during Jeopardy and Nova last night. I could swear that by the end of the night, I was just about at my toe knuckles.
I grabbed the camera just now, and was dismayed. The fair isle pictures don't look that different from yesterday, and when I put the sock on my foot, it looked at least an inch or two shorter than yesterday. Nowhere near the knuckle! I think there are tinking gnomes in our house, because I know I had more done last night than I do this morning. So no pictures, because there isn't much to show.
I do think that the vest would look a ton better if I did just one more row. I just switched to a new background color, but you really need to knit two rows in it before you can see the difference. As it is now, all you see are the different color loops on the needles. It's a warmer color, too (leaving the purples and pinks!), so it feels like great progress. I'm also really happy with my decision to drop down a needle size, since that will really allow me to block the finished piece a good amount without making it too big - that will allow all of the puckering (which is fairly minimal) to even out, and for all of the stitches to really pop. I hope.
ETA: I found out that shipping from J&S will probably be about $18 for the amount of yarn I want. It sounds like a lot, but I think the total is still about $50 cheaper than buying that yarn from Schoolhouse Press. I decided to ask the KBTH list about tariffs, as I think that's something that gets added on in the U.S., meaning that J&S might not know. I really don't know how that stuff works. When I ordered yarn from Uruguay, there were no tariffs, but it was officially shipped from their warehouse in Florida. All so confusing.
And to add more - It sounds like there will be no tariff on a "small" purchase of yarn from the UK. Someone who has ordered before said she hasn't paid anything (and doesn't think they charge for less than $250 worth of merchandise), and a seller said that her customers haven't had to pay, even for fairly large purchases. Schweet! This has really opened up a lot of possibilities for me, as the cost of the yarn might have been a limiting factor for me in knitting traditional fair isles. Now to figure out how to use the fax software on my computer, so I don't have to make an international call or send my CC# via email. Eh, I have months before I'll order, anyway...
I also thought I was on a knitting roll with the GWTF sock, which I worked on during Jeopardy and Nova last night. I could swear that by the end of the night, I was just about at my toe knuckles.
I grabbed the camera just now, and was dismayed. The fair isle pictures don't look that different from yesterday, and when I put the sock on my foot, it looked at least an inch or two shorter than yesterday. Nowhere near the knuckle! I think there are tinking gnomes in our house, because I know I had more done last night than I do this morning. So no pictures, because there isn't much to show.
I do think that the vest would look a ton better if I did just one more row. I just switched to a new background color, but you really need to knit two rows in it before you can see the difference. As it is now, all you see are the different color loops on the needles. It's a warmer color, too (leaving the purples and pinks!), so it feels like great progress. I'm also really happy with my decision to drop down a needle size, since that will really allow me to block the finished piece a good amount without making it too big - that will allow all of the puckering (which is fairly minimal) to even out, and for all of the stitches to really pop. I hope.
ETA: I found out that shipping from J&S will probably be about $18 for the amount of yarn I want. It sounds like a lot, but I think the total is still about $50 cheaper than buying that yarn from Schoolhouse Press. I decided to ask the KBTH list about tariffs, as I think that's something that gets added on in the U.S., meaning that J&S might not know. I really don't know how that stuff works. When I ordered yarn from Uruguay, there were no tariffs, but it was officially shipped from their warehouse in Florida. All so confusing.
And to add more - It sounds like there will be no tariff on a "small" purchase of yarn from the UK. Someone who has ordered before said she hasn't paid anything (and doesn't think they charge for less than $250 worth of merchandise), and a seller said that her customers haven't had to pay, even for fairly large purchases. Schweet! This has really opened up a lot of possibilities for me, as the cost of the yarn might have been a limiting factor for me in knitting traditional fair isles. Now to figure out how to use the fax software on my computer, so I don't have to make an international call or send my CC# via email. Eh, I have months before I'll order, anyway...