Sweater thoughts are taking over my brain. I suppose it’s better than thinking about work or the economy or the election…
Watching a bad movie this weekend, “That’s a pretty cool-looking sweater. I wonder if I could make something like that.”
Riding in on the bus this morning, I found myself thinking, “I really don’t like the arms of this sweater. There’s no cuff, really. But the ribbing is pretty nice…”
Stupid knitting, how I loves it.
Did you know I twist my stitches? Yeah, neither did I!
This past weekend was Hanks first anniversary super-mega-ginoromo sale, so Emma and I hit the yarn store to spend the gift certificates that I got for my birthday (and a little more, besides). I’ve decided that my next big project will be Speed Racer from Son of Stitch ‘n Bitch. Sadly, I can’t find any good pictures of the finished product. I’ll have to remedy that.
To that end, I bought a new set of circular needles (Addi turbos! So fun!) and a ball of the yarn I want to use. The sweater will be essentially all blue, with a wide orange stripe down the top of the sleeve. The yarn I bought is from Lorna’s Laces Green Line. The body will be navy and the stripe will be a nice, matte orange called Courage. The navy is on order, but I grabbed a ball of the orange to use for swatching.
Woo! Swatching! Something new! Actually, I’m not such a fan, but it’s a good thing that I did the swatch. The pattern calls for a gauge of 4 stitches per inch and I’m knitting at about 5 with this yarn. Without the swatch, I wouldn’t have known that and the sweater would have been 20% too small, and I would have been Quite Upset. Fortunately, this problem can be solved with a quick application of math, and the sweater will be cast on as soon as that navy yarn comes in.
It turns out that the swatch, when finished, makes a nice cat pillow. Awwww…
Okay, okay. I cheated a little on that picture. She was so zonked out that I could have put a piece of sandpaper under her head and she would have slept happily. Still, it’s cute, right?
When I took the swatch back to the yarn store for advice on how to proceed, Lorena noticed that I twisted my stitches. News to me! It turned into a nice little lesson on the difference between twisted and non-twisted stitches, and when to use twisted stitches. That was a surprise, but it turned out to be useful.
In other knitting news, I ripped back the second sock this weekend. I was getting close to being finished, when I noticed that I had screwed up the heel. Grr. Somehow I basically turned the sole of the sock inside out, with the seam on the outside. Emma saw purl bumps on the bottom of the sock, too, but I never noticed those. Feh. So, sorry, Sarah. It’s going to be a little while longer until the socks are done. But they’re going to be gorgeous! I promise!
I went to the yarn store yesterday wearing my newest t-shirt. It was coincidental, I swear! I was already wearing that before we decided to go by! What? You don’t believe me? Heh.
The shirt!
And, in the way that’s totally awesome, there’s an accompanying sea shanty.
Monday afternoon I was sitting at home, watching a little TV, playing with Lily, when there was a great CRASH and I felt the entire house shake. Brief investigations revealed nothing out of the ordinary inside. Outside, however…
So, what else has been going on? Over the weekend, we got to go celebrate an awesome friend’s birthday, which was really great. We were able to be there to see the live story of her birth, even!
It’s not the greatest of pictures…it was really sunny out. But the experience was amazing! And, this is a slight tangent, but how awesome is a person with this former license plate:
Hehehe.
In knitting knews, my first pair of socks is rapidly approaching done. Hurray! I’ve completed the first one, Kitchner stitch and all, and I’m turning the heel on the second sock right now. I’d guess it’ll be another week, and they’ll be done. After that? After that, I got some totally awesome, super-cool sock yarn as a member of the Hanks Yarn and Fiber Inaugural Sock Club. Check out the beautiful yarn. Haha, just kidding. Full color pictures to come soon, probably after I’ve cast on.
Oop, back to work. Type to you more, soon!
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