Archives for June 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
I promised I’m post a photo of my progress when I had something to show. Well here it is.
I’m about to add the fourth color, then it will be a few more rounds and I’ll get to the armhole round. That one sounds complicated so I’ll have to sit down and figure it out before I go crazy. I’m not enjoying the changing of colors. I love how it’s turning out, but it’s a pain because you change colors right at a yarn-over, which makes it a little more difficult. But so far it’s such an easy knit. I’m really having fun with it.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
So I’m up to my 2nd color on the pinwheel sweater and I’m about to switch from dpns to circular. That will be nice. So far I’m really enjoying this project. It’s fun to knit and the yarn is nice to work with too. Of course 2nd color means nothing since it’s only 10 rounds on about 12 stitches, but hey, it’s something. Especially since I spent the whole afternoon in bed asleep trying to get rid of this bug I got from Amelia. :( If she felt anything like I have felt today, I don’t blame her one bit for being as cranky as she was and crying. My whole body ached and felt sensitive to touch. I literally slept from about 12:30 to 4pm today. Ugh! Hopefully all the tylenol and nyquil I’m taking will help me get through tomorrow and this bug will go away soon.
Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, I’ll get a picture up soon of my progress. I’d like to get a little more of it done and possibly be on the circs before I get pictures. It’s going pretty quick at the moment, but I know as it gets wider it will take much longer to do a round. But it feels good to be working on this project. Not sure why, but this one means a lot to me.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
I cast on yesterday for the pinwheel sweater then ripped back when I realized it wasn’t working. Instead of joining the first 8 stitches then knitting into the front and back, I knit f/b, then joined the 16 stitches. I think this resulted in a larger opening in the middle than I’m supposed to have. So I’m going to try (for the third time) to join the 8 stitches first, then double them. I always seem to have trouble getting started when using dpns. I don’t have needles long enough for magic loop and not enough of them for 2 circs. I could order them, but then I can’t start and from what I’ve done so far, I’m so excited to get started on this. After I ripped it back, I decided I really needed to do a swatch. So that’s what I worked on last night and after measuring in 3 different locations, I’m getting exact gauge of the pattern using the suggested needle size. Hurray! That’s rarely the case. So I’m ready to try again. Hopefully this time, I can manage to double my stitches without getting all confused and twisted.
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
I’ve spent a few hours at Starbucks this afternoon and got the hat done. I think it came out pretty cute. Somehow the pattern has you make an odd number of eyelets, so that when you weave the i-cord through you end up having to skip an eyelet or you’ll have one tail inside the hat and one outside the hat. I probably should have searched for an errata because I knew one of the sizes had that problem. Just didn’t think the toddler size would. Oh well. And I probably should have made a longer i-cord, but I was getting tired of making it. I should probably get an i-cord maker. It would be much easier. LOL!
It’s so great to be able to finish a project so quickly. I love those instant gratification knits. :)
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Friday, June 1, 2007
I’m just past the eyelets on the baby hat. It’s a pretty quick knit and I love how it’s coming out. I also like working with that yarn (Bernat Cottontots). It’s very soft and the stitches look great. I’ll definitely use it again for another project.
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