a foggy place . . .

Another belated post

I'm really happy with my flétta, it fits great and the alpaca yarn is much softer than the called-for létt-lopi (natch). After finishing flétta, I charged ahead with my deep v argyle vest. I was still in the waistband when I realised that way back when I cast-on for the project, I was a 36" - I'm now more like a 32" (I blame breastfeeding). So I frogged. I cast-on for the 32" size. I finished the waistband. I took a look at the charts. Only the 36" was to be found. I must have only printed off that chart to save paper. To save the trees. Back to the computer to print off the 32" chart. No file. NO FILE! AAAFGGHHHH! Instead of dwelling on the matter, I've decided to use the RYC alpaca yarn for the colette pullover. I swatched, (final result=2.5 mm needles to get gauge) but I DID NOT CAST-ON. I'm determined to finish a project already in progress - rogue. I also decided to scrap juno - it's too similar to artic, which I prefer, except for the attached scarf thing. I want to put the cable patt for the scarf-thing on the centre back, which would mean starting over, so why not switch yarns? I'll use the blue-turquoise juno yarn for artic and the green artic yarn for the green gable hoodie (Vogue, Fall '08).
whew!

sleeves

Last night, I surprised myself - I finished the sleeves for Flétta! I only have the collar left to knit so it looks like I'll be seaming it together this weekend. Fingers crossed.

Slow progress

I'm still working on Flétta; I've finished one sleeve and 95% completed the other. I would have finished Flétta already but I've just started a new job (bank teller) - one that I think will work out very well for me. This is my second week of training and it's going very well so far. I did make some progress on the double eyelet socks, however (not that you can tell from my 5 am photo session). I have to wake up before my sweet little monster, okay? Here's his photo, for no particular reason.

I don't know why, but lately I keep thinking about trying my hand at spinning again. I still have my spindle and 2 rovings, and it bothers me that I couldn't get the hang of it last time I tried.

I've been knitting ...

So I've been neglecting my little blog; I want to begin posting more regularly.
Maybe once a week, if I'm lucky. I finished Aftur on 5 January for my sister's birthday. She really loves it. I made an album for Aftur - it's on the side bar. Since then, I've been plugging away on Flétta 2.0. I'm nearly finished the body, which only leaves the sleeves and collar to do. My coworker commissioned a hat last week - the Tweedy Beret (sans i-cord) from the A Cardigan For Arwen issue of Interweave Knits. I am using black Jaeger Extra Fine Merino Aran. It's going well since I gave up on the dpns and just started over with a pair of circs (magic loop, I love ya).
Bye for now!

impatience

I was feeling frustrated at not having any FOs, so I took out my 15 mm needles and got to work with some biggy print.  This yarn's retail price is ridiculously expensive, especially in Canada.  Fortunately, I got this at a ridiculously low sale price on ebay.  This is fortunate because I wanted a felted sweater - which I ended up leaving in the dryer way too long.  There was almost no shrinking width-wise, but way too much length-wise.  I may find a use for this sweater at some point, or I may not.  Well, that's what I get for giving in to impatience.

Jude before felting

Jude after (too much) felting

SPECS:
Pattern: Jude from Rowan Bigger Picture.  Size L.
Yarn: Biggy Print, 10 30 g balls in 235 Slippery.
Needles: 15 mm aero straight needles.
Mods: Nothing, except the collar would have been longer had I not run out of yarn.
Started: 29 April 2007
Finished: 1 May 2007
Recipient: Me.

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Organising my stash

I am making progress on Héla, it will be done by my deadline Sunday night (the flight is really early Monday). So I've decided to organise my stash a little bit. That is assign my wool to future projects.

My first ever socks! In Fleece Artist Merino sock yarn.

This will be the Gjá sweater from Lopi 24.

This will be Aftur from Lopi 25.

This 100% wool, Selkirk by Ram Wools in Lavender, will become Rogue by Jenna Wilson.

And finally, this lovely RYC Alpaca (in blossom & herwick) will become Eunny Jang's Deep V Argyle Vest.

Project Spectrum

February / March
Blue, White, Gray

April / May
Green, Yellow, Pink

June / July
Red, Black, Metallics

August / September
Brown, Orange, Purple

So I've decided to join project spectrum! For February / March, I will attempt to finish Arwen (white) and Flétta 2.0 (Grey).

Frog

I haven't posted in a while because, well, I ran out of cash iroha for the third time with Flétta, and, well, I got a little frustrated and frogged the whole thing. It was 95% done. I had no wish to revisit my previous agonising searches for the correct colour and dyelot. So it is done. I may use the cash iroha for the lace pullover sweater by Laura Zukaite in this winter's Vogue Knitting, but I really need to not look at this yarn for a while. I bought some berroco alpaca from Effiloché, a new LYS in Montréal. Finally, a really great LYS with a wonderful atmosphere. They have SnB every Friday night too. Oh! and the best part (for me, anyways) was that they re-wind your skeins into balls, right there! In 10 minutes! No tangles! Sorry. It has been a long time since I had good service at an LYS, I guess. And they even let me use the swift / winder all by myself! The photo of the lump of fushia is Héla in progress, I have finished the body and half an arm. I have also cast on for Lappi (I do not have the attention span for stockinette), that's the green photo. The colourful ball of wool is some old noro iro I have lying around; I am thinking of making a baby harness - I am little worried about him running away in an airport. We are switching flights in Detroit and Tokyo before arriving in Guangzhou. Last but not least, I have been tagged for the 6 weird things about you. Once I have narrowed it down to six, I will post about it.

update

I am still on the same damn sweater ... but I am making progress. The back is now done, so I only have the front and one sleeve and it's done! I really have to get to work on this one because I have to make a lopi sweater for my son and my in-laws (total=3) by January. We are going back to Guangzhou for the Chinese New Year in January. Since the tempurature never goes below 10 C there isn't any central heating, so lopi sweaters are very necessary, especially at night.

Sweater in progress

So today was remove-air-conditioner-for-the-winter-and-move-all-plants-indoors-day.
I was in charge of the baby, making sure he didn't kill himself getting underfoot of my husband who was wrestling the air conditioner out of the window. He publishes a weekly newspaper, so his phone never stops answering his ringing phone.
As he was placing the air conditioner in the box, and I was holding the box with my right hand, he went to answer that darling phone of his and he let the air conditioner fall into the knuckles of my hand. The part of the air conditioner that rammed itself into me was the back end, with all those little metal ridgy things. They are sharper than the best of sushi knives. All four knuckles of my right hand have what appear to be little scratches from some kind of mini-cat, but they are very, very deep canyons of pain that are still bleeding six hours later (okay, oozing). I thought of posting a picture but it would be too gruesome. So I am posting some pictures of my sweater in progress, the Fletta sweater pattern from Lopi.