Monday, January 13, 2003
Work has been CRAZY! I think I'm only averaging one blog per week now. Anyway...let's catch up on the latest, shall we?
Check out Kate's latest Cheesylove pattern in Knitty. Fabulous!
My sister gave me a gift certificate to my LYS, Stitches and Scones, so Kelly and I went over there Sat and I purchased 2 books, A Season's Tale by Kim Hargreaves and Knitting Fair Isle Mittens & Gloves by Carol Rasmussen Noble.
I really like many of the designs in A Season's Tale. They are more tailored and shaped with set in sleeves and most are of the shorter length which I really like. Several patterns have multiple necklines which you can knit and all patterns include nice schematics and measurements. Probably the biggest complaint I have is that the picture of the pattern is not necessarily shown with the written instructions. You have to read the caption for the picture to see which sweater you're really looking at.
Knitting FI Mittens & Gloves is a pretty versatile book. It includes a basic pattern for mittens, fingerless gloves, and regular gloves. You are then directed to the many charts to choose and insert your design. The patterns are meant to use Shetland yarn, but any fingering weight yarn should give you a comparable gauge of around 8st and 8 rows per inch. The different patterns are well photographed but the downfall is that the actual chart you use for knitting is printed with colored squares, not symbols. It would make it a bit difficult to photocopy and keep all your colors straight.
On another front, I've been fairly productive with my fiber work. I'm getting ready to knit my second LL Embers sock and I've started Kelly's second Regia sock. I had a slight detour this weekend while I knitted Kelly a pair of mittens on a whim. My spinning of the GCNI Constellation fiber is continuing and I'm slowly knitting on the afghan. I've even been chugging along on the felted Lopi tote, but I'm not sure I'm going to have enough yarn to make the bigger size tote which I would rather make than the smaller one. However, I'm going to use up what I have and make it work. I'm not really interested in buying any more yarn, although I suppose one more ball would be all it would take to extend it to the size I really want!
I still can't seem to get the second end of my Polar scarf trimmed out in that eyelash yarn. I don't know what the hold up is for me on that one. I probably just need to make myself sit down and DO it. After all, it won't take that long to knit 5 or 6 rows of eyelash across 20 some stitches.
My Project Table seems to be working out well for me to keep all my projects straight. It only lists the things that are in the forefront that I want to keep working on and get finished. It doesn't include all my UFO's and stash...that would drive me Nuts! At some point I want to come to terms with some of the stash that I have and decide whether I want to keep it or not...but not today!
Check out Kate's latest Cheesylove pattern in Knitty. Fabulous!
My sister gave me a gift certificate to my LYS, Stitches and Scones, so Kelly and I went over there Sat and I purchased 2 books, A Season's Tale by Kim Hargreaves and Knitting Fair Isle Mittens & Gloves by Carol Rasmussen Noble.
I really like many of the designs in A Season's Tale. They are more tailored and shaped with set in sleeves and most are of the shorter length which I really like. Several patterns have multiple necklines which you can knit and all patterns include nice schematics and measurements. Probably the biggest complaint I have is that the picture of the pattern is not necessarily shown with the written instructions. You have to read the caption for the picture to see which sweater you're really looking at.
Knitting FI Mittens & Gloves is a pretty versatile book. It includes a basic pattern for mittens, fingerless gloves, and regular gloves. You are then directed to the many charts to choose and insert your design. The patterns are meant to use Shetland yarn, but any fingering weight yarn should give you a comparable gauge of around 8st and 8 rows per inch. The different patterns are well photographed but the downfall is that the actual chart you use for knitting is printed with colored squares, not symbols. It would make it a bit difficult to photocopy and keep all your colors straight.
On another front, I've been fairly productive with my fiber work. I'm getting ready to knit my second LL Embers sock and I've started Kelly's second Regia sock. I had a slight detour this weekend while I knitted Kelly a pair of mittens on a whim. My spinning of the GCNI Constellation fiber is continuing and I'm slowly knitting on the afghan. I've even been chugging along on the felted Lopi tote, but I'm not sure I'm going to have enough yarn to make the bigger size tote which I would rather make than the smaller one. However, I'm going to use up what I have and make it work. I'm not really interested in buying any more yarn, although I suppose one more ball would be all it would take to extend it to the size I really want!
I still can't seem to get the second end of my Polar scarf trimmed out in that eyelash yarn. I don't know what the hold up is for me on that one. I probably just need to make myself sit down and DO it. After all, it won't take that long to knit 5 or 6 rows of eyelash across 20 some stitches.
My Project Table seems to be working out well for me to keep all my projects straight. It only lists the things that are in the forefront that I want to keep working on and get finished. It doesn't include all my UFO's and stash...that would drive me Nuts! At some point I want to come to terms with some of the stash that I have and decide whether I want to keep it or not...but not today!