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January 25, 2004
Sock!
I started the socks - I thought they were going to be for my nine year old but I made them a little too big, so they are going to be for me instead (shhhhh, don't tell Eli). I love the Crystal Palace bamboo DPN's but good golly, knitting fingering weight yarn on size 2 needles is taking for freaking EVER. I am almost to the heel flap. The yarn feels good, it is a superwash wool and will make the socks just a tiny bit heavier than the average dress sock. I am going to knit a pair of consolation socks for Eli, except I will use fatter yarn and size 6 needles so they go much faster.
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Posted by DebC at 10:44 PM | Comments (1)
January 24, 2004
Coming along
I finished the front side of the sweater while on vacation this week. I thought I would be able to knit more but we were pretty busy site seeing (in Germany). It is very frustrating that we cannot take knitting needles onto the plane ARGH. I honestly cannot see a terrorist doing much damage with a pair of circular needles!
I am always on the lookout for yarn during my travels but came up nearly empty this time around. I probably would have found plenty in Munich but that was not on the itinerary this trip. I did find some fingering weight yarn that looks like it will stripe up nicely for socks. I have not ventured very much more than newborn booties in the sock department but I am really looking forward to it. What do you think - new WIP in order? Somebody stop me!
Posted by DebC at 03:00 PM
January 15, 2004
Making good progress
I like the color, I really do. BUT, it sure is a lot of purple LOL. Also, I forgot how itchy 100% wool is. I decided to add bands of seed stitch to liven it up a bit. I like it so far.
Posted by DebC at 10:47 PM | Comments (2)
January 12, 2004
So what's a girl with dry hands to do?
Ooh, I know! Ball up all that gorgeous 100% wool from Peace Fleece. While it would be nice to have a yarn swift and ball winder, I love the zen state winding yarn puts me in. And my hands are lanolin soft. The color is just gorgeous. If you haven't checked out their yarns - go, go!
I decided that I am bored with the scarves and want to make something more defined. So I am pulling up one of my planned projects which is the Latvian Lavendar wool sweater. I got it in a kit from Peace Fleece but I am not sure that I want to work that pattern (Old Friends). If I do, I will definitely do something other than straight stockinette. I was thinking about doing a moss stitch or something but this yarn is pretty chunky (4st x 5 rows/inch). So, I think I will do some sort of open work like this for borders:
Posted by DebC at 12:33 AM
January 09, 2004
Need a cool blog design?
Heather has officially opened her doors for customers. <a href="http://www.eternallymine.com/design/">Check out her portfolio</a>, she has got some real talent. One thing that I have had a hard time with is thinking up what the hell I wanted for my blog. I needed someone to take a tiny tidbit and turn it into a template but allow me to freely say what I liked and didn't like without feeling obligated to accept their idea. Not only did she do that but she did it quickly.
Good luck Heather!!
Posted by DebC at 12:43 AM
January 05, 2004
This was way too funny to pass up!
From a link posted at TKGA:
Equal opportunity (although this is purely decorative and not for warming LOL)
And here I was thinking that my knitted uterus that I use for childbirth education was bizarre. {seriously contemplating knitting herself a hoo hoo pin}
Posted by DebC at 04:23 AM | Comments (1)