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!

Lappi: almost done

Lappi before zipper

Lappi is nearly done! I just have to buy a zipper and install it.  It's way too big for my son, which is great - he will be able to wear it next fall / winter.  I am pretty happy with the way it has turned out.   This was my first project with hems - I like! I really really do.  I am trying to get in as much knitting as I can in the next 2 weeks because I am starting a month-long intensive course.  Once the course is done, job hunting begins.  I haven't worked full-time since the end of 2003.  I went back to school to finish my B. A. and then I got pregnant in my final semester.  I have been taking care of my little one ever since.  I am excited to get out of the house, but the idea still feels a little weird.  Working full-time seems to be somewhere in my distant past; an old faded memory from a not very happy time.  I was way too stressed out back then, working 14 to 18 hour days, sometimes 6 days a week in film production.  Nothing exciting, just office administration (photocopies and more photocopies).  I'm glad that the baby means that I can't go back, that I have to find my way into some new career...

Hems and everything else

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Kríli Baby Mitts

I have an FO! Teeny little mitts for my toddler.  He needed mitts because his new daycare takes the kids outside during the day.  I had left all his winter stuff in China because it wouldn't fit in the suitcase and who needs winter clothing at the end of March?  Then the plane landed in Detroit practically in the middle of a snowstorm! I will never doubt the power of mother nature (to prove me absolutely wrong) again.  Three snowstorms in three weeks.  The poor thing had to wear the snowsuit that I had bought for next winter and mitts from last winter.  At least these mitts fit.

Kríli Baby Mitts

SPECS:
Pattern: Kríli from Lopi 25.  Size 2.
Yarn: Létt Lopi, 1 ball of turquoise I had lying around.  (Actually, more like 1/2 to 3/4 of a ball).
Needles: 3.5 mm clover bamboo dpns.
Mods: I tried the Italian tubular cast-on for the first time.  I kind of mangled it, (the result isn't very smooth or flexible) but the stickiness of this yarn may be partly to blame.
Started: 18 April 2007
Finished: 19 April 2007  (the only reason it took me 2 days was because I was fending off some kind of cold / flu that made me feel as if I had just been run over by a truck).
Recipient: My son

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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.