The Sitcom Chic sweater is done! (A picture will be forthcoming. It’s already 82 degrees outside, and I’m not really in the mood to put on a sweater at the moment.) I’m overall pretty pleased with this as a first sweater. It’ll probably be a wear around the house sweater, as there are some irregularities […]
Last night, I cast on some Nutkin socks out of the Pine Woods sock yarn I bought at Seaport Yarns. These are for Mother’s Day (yes, I know it’s a little late for that, but she only decided the day before Mother’s Day that she wanted socks, and then told me it was ok to
So May is apparently the month of the frog. I was all proud of myself last night when I reached the end of the last half pattern repeat on the Embossed Leaves socks before I could start the toe. And then I checked the measurement, and it was a full inch shorter then it should
So I finally sucked it up and took the Sitcom Chic sweater out of my work bag last night. My theory of what had gone wrong was that in my haste to line up the raglan decreases on the top of the eyelet rows, I’d gotten them off at that point, and not noticed. And
Since it was a rainy for part of my weekend away, I was able to work on sock #2 of the Embossed Leaves socks for a good chunk of Saturday. Between that and last night, I’m nearly to the heel turn. I don’t have much left to go for that once I have some time
I was all excited last night when I was suddenly approaching the neck shaping on my Sitcom Chic sweater. I actually pushed through a few more rows then I might otherwise have done, in anticipation of seeing the neck take shape. And then I realized that the raglan shaping on the arms has no symmetry.
Not that it’s terribly obvious from the photo, but I’ve attached the sleeves on my Sitcom Chic sweater, and am heading toward the end of the decrease rows directly above that. As a reward, I even let myself cast on the second Embossed Leaves sock, though I’m currently just in the ribbing rows on that,
I have second sleeve syndrome. I promised myself I wouldn’t cast on my second Embossed Leaves sock until I’d at the very least finished sleeve number two for my Sitcom Chic sweater. Naturally, I then took about three days off from knitting of any kind. I also managed to place a Knitpicks order, where I
Ok, I’ve figured out exactly why I love Ravelry so much. In the midst of doing a little recon work on Alex O’Loughlin of Moonlight (because he’s so pretty, and last Friday’s episode was just so nice in a lovely, good cheesily romantic way!), just for kicks, I checked to see if there’s a Moonlight
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Despite the lack of progress posts, I have actually been alternating between my two Project Spectrum themed projects most nights. I went on a bit of a clean-up binge today, and managed to finish the first Embossed Leaves sock. Totally love these socks. I’m just a little sad, because I’m pretty much out of the