FOs ahoy!
I took a bunch of photos of my knitting today.
First, a small bag that I made for my downstream One Skein Secret Pal. I used the lace leaf pattern from the Lace Leaf Pullover pattern in Teva Durham's book "Loop-d-Loop".
I repeated the leaf pattern on the inside edge of the bag, but I couldn't get a good picture of it. The yarn is Araucania Yarns' Magallanes, 100% wool, knit on size 9 (US) bamboo needles. It was really, really nice to knit with, and the wooden needles were a great match for the yarn. I lined the inside:
Lessons learned: a bit more about knitting lace (this was my second project with lace), grafting, how to line a bag.
About a month or two ago, I finished Knitty's Clapotis:
I used five or six skeins of Noro Silk Garden. And bamboo needles again, I think size 8.
I wasn't sure about the colorway at first, but now I like it. It kind of reminds me of the graph on my SETI@home screensaver.
Lessons learned: after dropping so many stitches on purpose, I'm no longer so afraid of dropping them on accident.
After finishing that and the Monk's Traveling Satchel (posted about here) I really needed a quick knitting success to recover from big project burnout. Enter Fetching:
Debbie Bliss Cashmerino. It was on sale at my LYS, so I have another skein of this color and two in dark blue :) I used a long-tail cast on instead of the recommended cable cast on because I like it better. I also messed up the row count a bit, so they're a bit shorter than they're supposed to be, but I made the second one match the first so who cares.
Lessons learned: cabling, and that the things that look like ladders in my DPN projects actually pretty much vanish as I keep knitting. Yay.
Last Wednesday I started working on Knitty's rpm socks (hmm, Knitty-heavy post here). The yarn is sport weight merino wool from Claudia Hand Painted Yarns, and the colorway is called Toast. Unfortunately, I don't have enough to finish the second sock! And I can only find this color in fingering weight online, so I may have to see if I can order another skein from the shop I bought this one at (out of town, so slightly inconvenient). I like the pattern, and I'm particularly enthralled by the heel (which I reinforced with silk thread to make the 100% wool more sturdy):
This is my second sock project. The first one, I'm surprised worked at all. I used a yarn that was not suitable for socks at all (note the fuzziness and wear on the heel):
and I didn't even check my gauge...yet somehow they fit the person they were knit for. They were kind of slouchy and plain, so I'm really enjoying seeing how a more structured pattern works.
And for the science geeks among us:
Maxwell equations square. I knit this for the stitchmysquare trade last month, for a trade partner who studies electrical engineering.
Thanks for reading!
First, a small bag that I made for my downstream One Skein Secret Pal. I used the lace leaf pattern from the Lace Leaf Pullover pattern in Teva Durham's book "Loop-d-Loop".
I repeated the leaf pattern on the inside edge of the bag, but I couldn't get a good picture of it. The yarn is Araucania Yarns' Magallanes, 100% wool, knit on size 9 (US) bamboo needles. It was really, really nice to knit with, and the wooden needles were a great match for the yarn. I lined the inside:
Lessons learned: a bit more about knitting lace (this was my second project with lace), grafting, how to line a bag.
About a month or two ago, I finished Knitty's Clapotis:
I used five or six skeins of Noro Silk Garden. And bamboo needles again, I think size 8.
I wasn't sure about the colorway at first, but now I like it. It kind of reminds me of the graph on my SETI@home screensaver.
Lessons learned: after dropping so many stitches on purpose, I'm no longer so afraid of dropping them on accident.
After finishing that and the Monk's Traveling Satchel (posted about here) I really needed a quick knitting success to recover from big project burnout. Enter Fetching:
Debbie Bliss Cashmerino. It was on sale at my LYS, so I have another skein of this color and two in dark blue :) I used a long-tail cast on instead of the recommended cable cast on because I like it better. I also messed up the row count a bit, so they're a bit shorter than they're supposed to be, but I made the second one match the first so who cares.
Lessons learned: cabling, and that the things that look like ladders in my DPN projects actually pretty much vanish as I keep knitting. Yay.
Last Wednesday I started working on Knitty's rpm socks (hmm, Knitty-heavy post here). The yarn is sport weight merino wool from Claudia Hand Painted Yarns, and the colorway is called Toast. Unfortunately, I don't have enough to finish the second sock! And I can only find this color in fingering weight online, so I may have to see if I can order another skein from the shop I bought this one at (out of town, so slightly inconvenient). I like the pattern, and I'm particularly enthralled by the heel (which I reinforced with silk thread to make the 100% wool more sturdy):
This is my second sock project. The first one, I'm surprised worked at all. I used a yarn that was not suitable for socks at all (note the fuzziness and wear on the heel):
and I didn't even check my gauge...yet somehow they fit the person they were knit for. They were kind of slouchy and plain, so I'm really enjoying seeing how a more structured pattern works.
And for the science geeks among us:
Maxwell equations square. I knit this for the stitchmysquare trade last month, for a trade partner who studies electrical engineering.
Thanks for reading!