I just finished making up a weird-ass variation on a very simple pattern. The pattern is called Basil, from the Rowan Summer Tweed collection. I modified it to have a lot of weird cably things going on.
I need to pull out Stitch’n’Bitch Crochet and swatch for the Snowdrop Shawl. It’s really pretty and I swatched one of the lace blocks, but I have to do a couple and the decreases. This is my first real crochet project and it would be huge but pretty. Other people I know said it was fairly beginner friendly.
Do you mean the Sweet Pea shawl Idlewild? Or is there another StitchN’Bitch Crochet book? I got one at the retreat I went to (another lady won it, but she already had a copy so she offered it at the table to whoever wanted it and I got it).
If it is, that’s a pretty shawl. sighs So much to knit/crochet that it’s hard to know what to do next!
Oh yeah, sweet pea. My mind just substituted words! I’m kind of planning to make it out of spite… had to do some crochet recently on a shared project, got told I was “doing it wrong!” by two veteran crocheters, even though my technique produced perfectly fine crochet, they just didn’t like how I held the hook/tensioned the yarn, so I’ma show them. It’s the best reason for picking a project, really.
I’m working on a blanket in a simple stockingette pattern with garter stitch borders. I was trying a pattern, but I got tired of ripping out 168 stitches every second or third row because I’d made a mistake. Besides, it’s a wildly colored rainbow yarn, and I think a pattern would get lost in the colors, so it’s basically a mindless pattern that will showcase the colors and is fairly quick to do.
I’m in the middle of making a felted muff for a friend, and I’m at a dilemma. She’s not a great friend…just a girl who used to work for us at the store, and now works down the hall. She stops in two or three times a day to use the bathroom and let us use the bathroom. We’re all real friendly, and she comes to me to learn to knit for her textile classes, and to help her with sewing projects…but she’s not a friend friend, if you know what I mean. So I’m making her a muff because we’ve been joking about it for years…she works at the cellphone booth in the middle of the mall, and it’s always freezing, but gloves are impractical! The pattern calls for Lion Tiffany eyelash yarn , which I could not find in stores around here, so I’m planning on substituting Lion Fun Fur.
BUT…on the Lion website, they had a kit with the Tiffany yarn, in the colors and amounts I need, on sale for half off! Since I’m a bit concerned about the gauge and the size…all the pattern says is to knit until you run out of yarn, and the Fun Fur is a different length…I ordered some, and it is so soft and luscious that…here comes the dilemma…I don’t want to use it for her! I know, I know, pure evil on my part! I’m trying really hard to be a good person here, and make this in the wonderful yarn…but I just want to keep it for myself and pet it! I suppose I could make myself feel better by returning the Fun Fur…I bought it at JoAnn’s, and I have the receipts, and they did fire me ten years ago…
So I’m working really hard at letting this lovely yarn go, to someone who really needs something nice in her life, and will appreciate the work and effort…LOL
The pattern called for knitting the wool part in one block, the Tiffany part in another, and then sewing them together into a tube before felting. I figured it’s just as easy to eliminate a seam by changing from the wool to the Tiffany while on the needles, and then I realized that I could have eliminated all this darn purling (it’s done in stockinette) if I had just done it in the round to start! Oh well…the next one I’ll do that way! I’m almost done with the wool part…another half inch…so she may actually get this while it is still winter!
I love that Tubey sweater!
I’m on Ravelry, but I’m still a total noob. I haven’t really participated in a major way, 'cause I’m not really sure of what I’m doing yet! I looked for a SDMB group, but couldn’t find one. My name is Bow on there, if anyone wants to be knitting buddies!
Oh, and I’ve just cast on for the Odessa hat, minus the beads, in Tasteful Red (read: a shade or two duller than Technicolor Red). I’ve never knitted anything round before and I’m not going to find out how before I start, woohoo! Though the hat is for me, so it doesn’t particularly matter if it looks awful.
That Tubey sweater looks great, by the way. I wish I had the patience for sweater-sized projects (I embroidered a shawl for art class once, and it damn near killed me).
Yeah, I don’t think the link works anymore, but you can get it off Ravelry. Or, if you don’t have an account and can’t be bothered waiting for an invite, I put it on megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MGOMUNLG
I am currently working on ribbed black socks for my husband - how boring, I know, but I love him so there you go. I have the pockets to finish up on the Southend Hobo, done in plain old brown Lamb’s Pride. There’s a lot of lining in that one so it’s been slow going. I am doing another square for my Barbara Walker afghan. That’s been on the back burner for awhile, but I did one the other day and now this one. I just finished sewing on the flower and have worn once my Folded Brim cloche from Felt It!. I love it but my husband seemed a bit skeptical about the fact that I wore it to the store. For Christmas I made a simple ribbed hat for my brother-in-law using three colors of Wool-Ease I’ve had for three years, socks for my mom and Fetchings for my son’s teacher. I need to whip up a scarf for my boss’s b’day on Monday too.
Instead of the cotton-soy pink stuff from SWTC, I’m making my other mother-in-law Branching Out in Blue Sky baby alpaca Melange, in a purpley colour. It’s GORGEOUS and so soft!
