I've been trying to figure out what to do with this yarn I have and it's making me nuts. This "easy" project for my knitting weekend is becoming a big pain in my ass. I have only like 810 yards of this bulky yarn, which isn't much. I was thinking of doing a top-down raglan, so I could knit until I ran out of yarn. And also throwing in a stripe or ( Read more... )

I knit on and off for a good part of 6 hours on Saturday, working on this impromptu felted bag to kill time. I'm knitting on big, honkin' size 11 needles, which I'm not used to. My other WIPs are on size 1s and size 7s. I don't like knitting on big needles ( Read more... )

I've been rejuvenated lately when it comes to knitting. Hooray for that. I got my swatches done for my class next month, they were faster and easier than I originally thought. Those easy, mindless swatches were just what I needed to get back into it ( Read more... )

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Hey! I finished the orange/pink vest! Well, except for the buttons. I might make them. I might buy them. Gotta decide that soon ( Read more... )

I cast on for a new project yesterday. Bad, tine, bad. I was supposed to fix all my broken projects. I've been doing well with that but since I finished my sock (that I now wish I had gone one more repeat with, but whatever) I had NOTHING on the needles - oh the horror. I couldn't go wait for my car to be serviced without a knitting project, now ( Read more... )

An update on the broken projects ( Read more... )

I knit a new hat for K today. I know I had a no new project rule until I finished my broken projects but I needed something to do for 3 hours while I got my hair cut and colored. And K lost her hat this week (that I made, argh), and she really needs a hat! It came out really cute. It's like a dusty rose color (Plymouth Encore Worsted) with 2 ( Read more... )

I think I've decided what classes to take on my knitting weekend in April. I'm going to take the bead knitting class on the Sunday, that was a no-brainer. Saturday I couldn't decide. There's a 6 hour finishing class which includes learning Japanese short rows. Or there's a 3 hour class on making a wind chime scarf, aka potato chip scarf aka spiral ( Read more... )

I seamed her this weekend. Seaming set-in sleeves is not near the top of my most-fun list, although I do generally enjoy seaming. I'm happy it's done, I'm still weaving in ends though. Funny how many of them there are, despite the fact that a lot of this sweater is done in the round ( Read more... )