Happy Sunday!
I’m quickly squeezing this post in before we head out to celebrate CBtY’s 13th birthday today, but I’ll be back later with some more goodies for you in the comments…
I’ve been a very bad girl…last week, I taught my mom and her friend Judy’s magic cast on so they could knit toe-up socks too…naturally, I had to use my spare ball of sock yarn and demonstrate how to do it, right? (Can you guess where this is going?)
Well, after I showed them with one sock, I just had to cast on the second one…and before I knew it, I was flying along with a pair of socks for myself. Here they are as of last Sunday (click pics for larger images):
Of course, I had to keep knitting on them because they were looking so cool (kind of like an Easter egg pattern in the yarn)…and with the election returns last Tuesday, I now have just a few rows of ribbing left at the top and to cast off. I’ll probably post a picture of the finished socks tonight.
And I also worked on my sweater, although it was abandoned in favor of the socks this week. I did a provisional cast on (for the non-knitters, this means I used scrap yarn to start my knitting so that I could pull out the first row of stitches and pick the stitches with my sweater yarn up and knit them together to make a hem along the bottom. Can I just say, 198 stitches makes for a very long row?
I’m almost to the end of the hem, and then progress will move more quickly. Here’s a close up to show you how I’m knitting the hem together. I have the top and bottom of my knitting on separate needles (on the left), and as I knit them together with my right needle, I’m taking one stitch from the top left needle and one from the bottom left needle and combining them in one stitch (this folds the hem up as I go).
So, what’s needling you this week?
of your thoughts..*
Anyone else being a non-monogamous knitter this week?
*boran2 coined that phrase.
Non-monogamous sounds a little risque, but I’m obviously that type of knitter. I’m up to the yoke on Grandson’s sweater and have started the fair isle, but I’ve had a stack of good books to read so I’ve been doing some mindless knitting – two hats last night, a scarf and a hat earlier in the week and a couple scarves before that, all for our charity knitting group. I’ll try to get back later this evening with photos.
As promised and with a few more rows worked..
Bernat worsted weight and size 10½ needles. I’m making it to his measurements, but I think it would work out to a child’s size 12 or a 10 with some extra length.
A close up of the fair isle yoke – a 25 stitch/row pattern from Alice Starmore’s Book of Fair Isle Knitting. It’s a book I bought a number of years ago while it was in print. It’s out of print now and given the prices on Amazon, I could never afford it today!
It looks gorgeous!
I know what you mean about the Starmore book. I have Stillwater, which I paid $18 for in 1997…it’s about ten times that now. But her designs are so incredible.
BTW, I have about 4 rows (okay, 3.5) left on my socks, and then the sewn bind-off and I’ll get someone to take pictures while I model them so I can post.
I keep hoping that the Starmore books will be reissued like Meg Swenson’s A Gathering of Lace was a year or so ago. I’d like to get the Aran Knitting one to go along with a couple other books of Aran patterns.
BTW, this is what happens when I put my knitting down – it becomes a cat bed {g}
From what I have read, it doesn’t sound too hopeful for a re-issue. It’s a shame, because that Aran knitting one sounds like a real treasure.
The cat has good taste in beds. 😉
Maybe I’ll run into it at a garage sale one of these days {crossed fingers}. I found a couple really nice knitting books last summer and the most I paid was $2. The cat in the photo is Sadie, we also have Callie & Boomer.
because I find that scottish knitting belt this woman is using interesting, as well as her casual attitude while knitting at lightspeed. I don’t actually want to be that fast…
Hazel Tindall, World’s fastest knitter:
I can eat faster than that. ;P
I know this is knitting, but I don’t knit. I make jewelry. It is okay if I posted on some of the pieces I make?
I would love to see them! Post away.
First let me make some new stuff, and then take the pictures. I have pictures of old stuff here.
I was hoping you would put up a diary on knitting this week.
Two views of the throw I made last weeks, the colors are bobbles in rows of three, now I am working on another in blues and multicolors blues using 6 large granny squares.
CG, your description of your knitting patterns seems so hard in comparison to crocheting, I don’t know if I will ever go back to knitting, I just love the patterns you can make so easy with crochet.
It’s beautiful, Diane! I love both knitting & crocheting and it always seems that whichever I’m doing at the time is my favorite.
thanks Denim, I like your things too.
That looks great, Diane. Who is that one for?
I never really thought about it before, but I guess I do have a tendency to always want to try something new and tricky when I knit…with some more simple socks and scarves and gloves thrown in between to break it up.
Ps, I hope you and your daughter are feeling a little more relaxed today. I’ve been thinking about you all.
The throw is for me, I am changing to those colors in bedroom and I just love it so much.
It was so hot here today it’s hard to even think of knit things, that is why I have to make throws cause you can use them on the summer nights.
I lost 7 pounds last weeks due to all the goings on.(I needed it)…the weekend has been calm and nothing has happened, they talked and she says they have worked out some things. Hopefully that will hold. Thanks for asking and thinking about us.