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Knitting all week on a piece that I'm going to felt for the needle case that we've all been salivating over on Knitting Novices. I'm using bulky yarn (Landscapes summer evening or some such) instead of the worsted it calls for, but I love the yarn so much and am just considering it a grand experiment. I think when I felt it it will come out thicker because it's bulky but that doesn't seem like a bad thing for a needle case.
I'm using my new Boye needles from the set I bought, and so far they are working wonderfully. The debate goes on on the knitting boards about Denise vs. Boye, but I like mine and have no complaints.
Finished that last hat, with the groovy stripes and the mangled crown. Poor finish on the dpn's that caused it to be sort of squarey. I never did a satisfactory I-cord either. I think I'll put this away for the winter and work on the doodley things then.
Here's the brown scarf I knitted for Sophi. She won't want to wear it until late October (here in sunny California) but I'm proud of it NOW :^). Time to bust out of mistaken rib and stockinette though, and do some other more challenging stitches.
I've been home sick--sleeping, reading, sleeping, and knitting. I have just about finished the second hat done in the round, and did all the finish work on the loose threads. Stripes aren't any harder, and the knitting info websites showed me to twist the two colors around each other before weaving in, so that there's no hole where the colors met up. I'm just struggling to make an I-cord doodly thing to stitch on top of it (yes, I found out what I-cord is, and being almost an idiot--the "I" is for "idiot"--have been struggling with it, but I keep trying). Hope to post those pix tomorrow or Thursday.
Next, I think I will knit the womb that Kim and others have been talking about. My friend Lorna the sex ed teacher will find it a kick. Her nephew, who died a few years ago, was a crazy free-style knitter, whose blog is still on the Net. Perhaps the knitted womb will remind her of him.
Happy knitting, all!
Not nearly enough time for knitting this weekend, but I did do something I have been afraid to try, almost by tricking myself into it, and that is stripes. Switching yarn colors! How could I be scared of that? But I was, and then I realized that I just had to pick up a different strand and wrap it around my hand as I do for any knitting, and proceed with that color.
I haven't gotten to the point where the piece is finished, so I don't quite know yet what I will do with the wrong side, where the colors meet up. But I have faith--I'll find out what I need to know. Knitting Novices, a website, or even my dear old mom, all are out there to make it clearer.
So what am I knitting in stripes, you ask? Another hat, same style, some of the same colors, but with an added pale blue component, and I'll post it when I'm done.
Now that the warm weather has FINALLY hit Northern California, I realize that my expectation that I would not want to knit in the heat is dead wrong. I will want to find air conditioning when I knit, but I don't see myself taking a hiatus any time soon.
I am wondering, what is I-cord??? I think it might be something I could use instead of a tassel for this hat (I hate tassels).
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