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July 28, 2004
Fast!
I took a time out last week to do a baby sweater for my neighbor after it suddenly dawned on me that she is due in less than three weeks! It is molto caldo (very hot!) here, so I made it in 6 months size.
The pattern, from Cabin Fever, was incredibly well written and easy to use. I strongly recommend it for brandnew knitters! I had made a Cabin Fever pattern before and loved that one too - Stripes for me. As a matter of fact, I loved this sweater so much I made it several times. Two of them are here and here.
As soon as I can find batteries for my camera (damn Game Boy all to hell and back), I will post a picture of a quasi design/finishing project that seduced me this week. A coworker brought in a half finished toddler dress that her mother started 18 years ago. She was unable to finish it due to parkinsons and has since passed away. I am going to help her finish it, which shouldn't take long, it only needs the neckline shaping and to be pieced together. I have to find the yarn for it though. I am going to look while I am back in the States next week. Looking at the dress, I decided to graph the whole thing out and write up the pattern. The hem on the dress is adorable and the shaping is unique (I will have to make corrections). I have no idea what she had in mind so this will definitely be detective work. She was apparently knitting it on the fly. I will ask for opinions over at Knitty Coffeeshop but I think I am going to make it a scoop neck jumper so a little blouse can be worn underneath. I will post pictures tonight.
Posted by DebC at 09:01 AM | Comments (2)
July 10, 2004
I promise I have been making progress
Lookie - my percent bar is now at 40% on the Picasso! Wooo go me! Some thoughts about this project:
1. It is getting freaking HUGE. I am getting scared. I know that really big stuff may not felt evenly. Gulp.
2. Straight needles suck.
3. Ditto on large round bobbin thingys.
4. Static page markers RULE, on the other hand.
5. So do those little flat bobbins that look like embroidery floss holders. LOVE THEM, would marry them if it was allowed. Errr, um no, Mr. Bush would never allow that.
6. Getting nervous about felting intarsia too. I just had a sickening dawning that the places where I carried the yarn three or four stitches are going to pull in and become three dimensional because the yarn shrinks up and down. Which is great and I actually planned for it by doubling the height only (that is why she will look so stretched out prefelting). But I forgot that carrying the yarn means that now the "up and down" part of the yarn is going sideways. I am not totally dejected about this though, I think a little three-D effect on a wall hanging would actually be cool. Not so much for a sweater though.
Anyway, here is the current status: (the link takes you to the photo album, where the picture is bigger)
Posted by DebC at 01:56 AM | Comments (3)