Category: Afghans
Thursday, October 25, 2007
With the cool weather finally settling in down here in Dixie, I feel the need to knit a sweater for Amelia. So I’ve chosen Smitten by Marie Grace Smith. It’s a cute little sweater that I think will look adorable on her. So now I’m in search of some inexpensive yarn in fun colors so I can get started on this ASAP.
Of course I told myself that I wouldn’t start anything new till Nez’s afghan was done, but I just can’t help it. Amelia really needs a sweater anyway. Nez will have to be patient.
But I’m working on her afghan. I had to rip back a few rows on the border. I tried to work on it at my weekly SNB and messed it up. So I’m back down to where I know it’s right and will start again. I brought it with me to work thinking I could get a row or two done at lunch.
But now I’m thinking I might head to Michael’s instead to get some yarn for Amelia’s sweater.
Yeah, I made her the pinwheel jacket and it’s adorable, but for some reason I don’t think it will fit her now. I have no idea what happened to it. I might just have to try blocking it and go from there, but the last time she tried it on, it was kind of snug and that was a few months ago. I hope it does fit, so she has something to wear while I work on Smitten.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
There haven’t been many posts from me in a while. I’ve been crocheting even though there isn’t really anything new to report. I’ve pieced together the rectangles for my sister’s afghan and I’ve started on the wavy border. It looks really neat so far, but in the past week, we’ve all fallen ill. Guess the flu is going around and we all caught it. I’m still feeling sort of crappy, so I haven’t really worked on anything this week.
We’re going to FL this weekend for Amelia’s 1st birthday party, so I’ll be too busy anyway. Hopefully when I get back, I’ll be feeling more myself and things will get back to normal. Then I can really get working on the border and have something to show. Till then, you’ll just have to wait.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
My japanese motif book has arrived. Now I just have to really figure out what colors I want to make my hexagon blanket. I’ve looked over the pattern and I don’t think it will be too hard. It’s primarily charts and pictures so even though I don’t know japanese, I shouldn’t have any trouble working through it.
The pattern calls for 7 different colors and gives a chart for which color combinations to work for each hexagon, so once I figure out what colors I want, I’ll chart out my color combinations. I was originally thinking I’d only work with 4 colors and that will do if I decide on just 4 colors. But now that I’ve seen the pattern, I like the idea of using 7 colors. So now I’m not sure what I’ll do.
I can’t exactly afford the yarn right now anyway, so it will have to wait, but that’s okay. I need to finish up a few projects before I jump into this one. And it gives me some time to decide what colors I want while I work on other stuff.
I’ve heard it recommends DK weight yarn, so I’ll have to do some searching to find a fairly inexpensive DK yarn in the colors I want. Fortunately, I don’t need too many balls of each color. But I definitely want something that will be machine washable, since it’s an afghan.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
I’m learning how to do tunisian crochet. It’s so fun and I love the fabric that it creates with the vertical bars. Right now I’m working on just a dishcloth using the basic simple stitch and a slight variation that is helping with the curl. But I’ve got an afghan book in my wishlist that has quite a few tunisian patterns in it. I’ve wanted this book for a while anyway since I just love afghans, but this is all the more reason to get it.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
If you’ve been here recently, you’ll notice I changed the layout. I wanted something simple, so I found a decent Wordpress theme that I liked and am now using it. It’s been tweaked every so slightly. I customized the header, of course, and changed the wording in a a few places. This was so much easier than trying to create my own theme and plug it into WP. Because I already had a two column layout, it was easy as pie to tweak my code to fit into the theme. Since this is a knitting blog, it only made sense that I had a “blog” theme. And I’m pretty happy with this one. I may at some point change the colors and if I’m feeling adventurous, add some scripting so that you can choose which color you like better. But I’m not sure if I’ll go that far.
In knitting news, I’ve made it to the gusset on sock on of dad’s thujas. I think the 3rd time is the charm on these. The fabric feels much stretchier but also like it will fit snuggly on the foot. I’ve finally (after many start overs) have made it past the first square of sis’ afghan. I’ve got 2 squares done; 10 more to go. But these are going to be better than the last “squared” afghan I made. These are the same # of rows and the same # of stitches across. *And* these will be pieced together the same way, so when I sew seams, I’m sewing rows to rows and stitches to stitches, so I think it will be much easier. You learn from your mistakes and this time around I have to say, I’m doing much better.
But I’m so amazed that I’ve started these two projects so many times over. I’ve never done that with a project to get it right. I guess I’m actually learning a thing or two in my knitting and “getting” gauge is something I’ve been trying to finally get right. Let’s hope this trend continues when I start working on something that really needs accurate gauge, like a sweater.
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