Sekrit Project Post
And now a specifically-friends-locked post to exclude people who haven't received their presents yet.
I made a jellyfish for Gill's birthday. By rights it should have been three, but if I'd had to make two more I'd have cried. It turned out much harder than it was marked as in the book, but my only consolation is that the good folks on Ravelry agree. That, and it looks pretty cool.
I'm also part-way through making a Loch Ness monster for Ant's birthday from the same book (rated as harder than the jellyfish, but yet to make my brain actively bleed). It only has one flipper so far, so it is cursed to eternally swim in circles.
Am also planning to make Sarah a birthday present. I was amused to find a book of Harry Potter related knits in the library. I fancy trying a pair of house socks, only in deference to my housemate's obsession with *ahem* certain slash-fiction combinations, she'll get one Griffindor-coloured sock and one Slytherin-coloured one. I think I'm ready for socks. When I first got a beginners' guide to socks, it made no sense to me. Some months later I re-read it and realised I'd done all the techniques in the context of amigurumi (picking up stitches, short rows, kitchener stitch etc). So I got some suitable yarn. I have the right-sized needles. I even did the whole tension square thing properly and *know* have exactly the right-sized needles. But *wow* it took so long to knit some piddly little tension squares. I'd like to think I'm a reasonably fast knitter now, but I have a feeling a full pair of socks in fine sock yarn will take forever. But I have good quality fine sock yarn, and the pattern I have is for fine sock yarn, and I'd rather give her more useful fine socks rather than some bulky impractical things knitted with thick yarn. Oh well, I'll give it a try...
(Apologies for the grainy photos. My camera-point blank refuses to use the flash, yet demands every non-incandescent photo needs it. When I turn it off, it slows the shutter speed, resulting in invariably blurry photos. So I end up using fast shutter speed with high ISO and have to put up with grainy pics.)
ETA: Post unlocked now. Everyone has their presents.
I made a jellyfish for Gill's birthday. By rights it should have been three, but if I'd had to make two more I'd have cried. It turned out much harder than it was marked as in the book, but my only consolation is that the good folks on Ravelry agree. That, and it looks pretty cool.
I'm also part-way through making a Loch Ness monster for Ant's birthday from the same book (rated as harder than the jellyfish, but yet to make my brain actively bleed). It only has one flipper so far, so it is cursed to eternally swim in circles.
Am also planning to make Sarah a birthday present. I was amused to find a book of Harry Potter related knits in the library. I fancy trying a pair of house socks, only in deference to my housemate's obsession with *ahem* certain slash-fiction combinations, she'll get one Griffindor-coloured sock and one Slytherin-coloured one. I think I'm ready for socks. When I first got a beginners' guide to socks, it made no sense to me. Some months later I re-read it and realised I'd done all the techniques in the context of amigurumi (picking up stitches, short rows, kitchener stitch etc). So I got some suitable yarn. I have the right-sized needles. I even did the whole tension square thing properly and *know* have exactly the right-sized needles. But *wow* it took so long to knit some piddly little tension squares. I'd like to think I'm a reasonably fast knitter now, but I have a feeling a full pair of socks in fine sock yarn will take forever. But I have good quality fine sock yarn, and the pattern I have is for fine sock yarn, and I'd rather give her more useful fine socks rather than some bulky impractical things knitted with thick yarn. Oh well, I'll give it a try...
(Apologies for the grainy photos. My camera-point blank refuses to use the flash, yet demands every non-incandescent photo needs it. When I turn it off, it slows the shutter speed, resulting in invariably blurry photos. So I end up using fast shutter speed with high ISO and have to put up with grainy pics.)
ETA: Post unlocked now. Everyone has their presents.