2 posts tagged “pinwheel”
i have decided to grace vox with my presence. *grins* i never think about updating here when i finish something! But here I am... I will post some pictures of some FO's. I guess I just assume everyone could just look at my stuff on ravelry if they realllly wanted too. but alas, i like reading about everyone else's FOs on their blogs too... and ya'll are just like me i bet! so how about some pictures?
i did a test knit for a yarnie... she sent me the yarn and i knitted her some socks. i'll get free yarn when i decide what i want from her store. which reminds me: *stalks etsy store* I was aggravated with all the patterns I came up with for this sock, and finally Amy came to my rescue (AGAIN!) and I went with the cables, yo pattern. it's a really speedy pattern, i do recommend it for everyone! It's in Sensational Knitted Socks book.
and some in progress shots:
the yarn didnt really do what i wanted, but eh, what can ya do? yarn has a mind of it's own sometimes! I will knit this pattern again for myself sometime.
Hmmm, what else have I finished lately? I made Derek some thick wool socks to wear when he hunts... they took me all winter to make. Ha, oh well! I knitted them toe up so that they'd fit him.
let me see if there is anything else in the flickr album...
And it snowed here the other week or so...and I finally got a good snow picture after messing around with all the settings on my camera... it was snowing soooo much when i took this.
i also have this lacy scarf dealio on the needles.... i saw this pattern (omo scarf) on ravelry and it was so pretty in some cashmere yarn.... but the only DK wgt yarn I had is this pink berroco (cotton) so I went with it...it's not my favorite thing... but it's not for me anyways. I have quite a bit more done on it since this picture was taking...almost thru the first skein. i really suggest you look at the patter in other yarns. maybe blocking this will help some too. HAHA, and if you notice, I was using pretty bamboo needles, that I got for free, on it... but dang! SO SLOW! I have since switched to my knitpicks circs and it's zooming along now.
here is a funky picture of me and derek at the arch, while amy was here. i think at this angle, everyone has several chins! LOL
me and my aya, while she was here visiting! I MISS YOU COME BACK RIGHT NOW!
long time, no vox! my last update is july 4th. oopsy! i'm sure no one even reads this any more, but i am going to write out a long boring knitting post anyways. because i am bored and there is no one online to entertain me. *looks pointedly* you know who you are.
anyways... what is going on the knitty world o' sparkli? a few things. as you may or may not recall, my best friend turned up pregnant earlier this year. i have been trying to crank out the baby knits something crazy, but of course, not as much as i'd like. one of the main reasons is that i am stuck in baby blanket limbo. i have 2 baby blankets on the needles. festive fish and the pinwheel. i have no issues with the fish blanket other than i am kind of tired of knitting fish. i need to remedy that.
i have major issues with the pinwheel. can someone tell me what it says about a knitter who starts a blanket with only 2 skeins of yarn that dont even match? i'm sure that knitter has serious mental problems. that knitter would be me. i started it with 2 skiens of brown sheep cotton fleece... same color, just two different dye lots. and it's not reeeeaaalllly noticeable but it is to me. so after knitting the 1st skein, i bought another skein from a fellow raveler, thankfully, even tho it was a different dyelot, it matched my first skien. so now the pinwheel is 2 skeins big and measures a whopping 27 inches in diameter. which is *not* big enough. so i have this other skein that is a shade (or two) lighter. now in my mind, it's perfectly ok to knit a border with this lighter color... but it is not ok to start in the stockingnette portion with this lighter color. see, issues? so do i just start the border at 27 inches and just make a wide border (and the 3rd skein probably wont be enough for a wide enough border to make the blanket a decent size) or should i just try to procure another skein of this yarn and hope that it matches the yarn i have been knitting with?
what would you do?? i'm going to tell you what i am going to do right now. today, and i mean TODAY, since i have been putting it off for over a week, i am going to put a life line thru about 20 sts of my blanket... then i am going to knit a swatch off my blanket with the 3rd skayn and see what it looks like. so will see how bad it looks, or doesnt look. but otherwise, i am going to have to figure out how to get a skien of brown sheep cotton fleece in sage. anyone??
what else am i knitting? oh last weekend, i knitted up a baby sized center square hat. it's really cute. i used some knitpicks.com mainline yarn i had in the stash. it's navy blue and ivory. i had gauge issues (of course) and completely finished the hat before i finally admit to myself it was way to small, even for a baby. so i ripped it all out, which was fine, because i did a really shitty job on it anyways. you cannot magic loop color work. you just cant. but the second go around was a success. i still need to block it. i did a roll brim instead of ribbing. it's very cute.
i also started another hat with the bits i have left over from the mainline... trying to stretch the yarn, yo! it's just a plain roll brim hat too... blue and white random stripes. just something easy (pfft, i have started it over twice too).
THEN, i casted on a baby sweater on friday night. kipling. it is SO cute. well the one on the site isnt THAT cute, but i have seen other pictures of other people's and they are V. CUTE. so i started that with some of that vanna yarn from lion brand. that yarn is CHEEP. like 2.99 a skein and it is sooooo soft. it's acrylic, but really... with babies, it has to be washable... and they are just going to grow out of it anyways, right?? so i knitted about 3 inches on it... logged on IM saturday morning to discuss it with amy and then she conned me into not working on it til next week and she will knit it with me. so now it's laying here and i keep petting it. :D i'm trying to be patient.
hmm. and i still have 2 second socks hanging around... i really should cast one of those on. but again, i wouldnt say that i have issues with them, more of road blocks. one is a jaywalker and i have been thinking for months if i want the 2nd sock to have 1x1 ribbing like the first one...even tho i dont like it. i suppose the should match, but eh... i dont like it. and the other sock is just a zen for my sister...but i did a picot edge on it instead of ribbing... and while a picot edge is really cute, it's a pain in the arse to do. and i was thinking about it last night and i cant remember if i did a 52 or 54 stitch cast on. Amy?? it's pretty bad when i know that my friend will know my knitting details when i dont myself. what would i do without her? be pretty lonely and have long drawn out knitty conversations with myself, i guess. :D
i'm trying to think if there is anything else hanging around on the needles. i dont think so... i think that is all. there is so many things i want to knit. but no time or i dont have the yarn that i need or i have other things i need to knit first. and i dont like to have a ton of things on my needles either... so i need to deal with some of the issues in this entry and get moving on some stuff. because the knew knitty came out and i really like several things in it... one day... one day! i need to find them on ravelry and put hem in my queue to help me remember.
and in addition to all this knitty stuffs, i am moving from florida to st. louis, mo in just a mere 2 weeks. we have been working to find a place to live and stuffs. but we are about to uproot our lives and move to some place we have never been again. twice in one year! it's ridiculous! i'm really in denial about everything that still needs to be done... i just want to hide under a blanket with a flashlight and knit.
ok! i am off to deal with the pinwheel blanket, once and for all! so atleast i will know either way about the other dyelot. oh and the reason this is one long knitty post with no pictures is that my camera died a few weeks ago. hopefully i will have one on loan soon and can take some pictures of stuff.
