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Yes! I’ve actually started a sock!!!! I’m using Wendy Johnson‘s Generic Toe-up pattern with Paton’s Kroy yarn and Pony 2.75 mm dpns (set of 4). The reason I’m showing it here is because I don’t know if I will ever finish it. It is a bit loose on my foot, apparently I should have cast on 56 stitches, not 64 for my foot size. But I’m thrilled to see it looking like a sock. Also, the pattern calls for 5 dpns and I’m fudging it by cramming half the stitches on one instead of two dpns.
I’m always in awe of the sockknitters who seem to borrow a toe from here, a heel from there, a stitch pattern from elsewhere and a yarn at random and then magically produce beautiful, perfectly fitting masterpieces. Amazing. And as someone I know would say, “Awwwwwwwesommmmmme”!
Being of uncertain fate, here are a few more pictures of the selfsame sock:
Enjoy them, you may never see the finished product!
Remember when I joined the Dishcloth KAL a few aeons ago? I finally decided to actually make something to show for it. So here’s #1
And #2
Details, if you must:
Yarn: Phildar Lin-Coton 50/50 sent me in a CATPAC. The colour is actually a faded blue. I used two strands together. I had two balls of it and after two dishcloths, only a small amount left.
Needles & Hook: Heide‘s Boye aluminium circulars, size 4.50 mm/7 I think. The needle is silver coloured.
Pattern: Checkerboard Dishcloth and Short Rows Rectangular (!!!) Wash Rag, both from the Dishcloth Boutique
Time: About a day each. What can I say, I’m slow.
Size: 8″ x 8.5″ and 9″ square
Extra: #1 I’m really pleasantly surprised by my experience with the Boye needles so far. I find their crochet hooks are very heavy and even crudely made, with prominent ridges. Can someone explain the difference to me?
#2 I don’t know why the pattern is called rectangular, I got a square out of it. The pattern is slightly oddly written. Not enough dotting of the i’s and crossing of the t’s. I like being spoonfed.
Well, at least the purse he designed 😉
I needed quick gratification, and have been dying to try my hand on this purse ever since Drew unveiled it a few days ago. Although I had promised myself that I would finish some other stuff first, I couldn’t resist this and cast on for it two nights ago. Finished it yesterday. Very nice and easy. The yarn is so nice and soft and probably deserved to be made into something worn next the skin (it is 50% merino and 50% acrylic and so soft!) but woolly things being little required in these parts, purse it became.
For the cord I used the Lobster stitch, and it is a bit too thick for the purpose, so I am now making the Parallel Chain cord found at the same tutorial for a thinner cord. The handle was supposed to be a knitted I-cord, but I cheated and used my trusty I-cord maker instead and whipped it up much faster than I would have on needles.
Here are the details:
Yarn: GGH Aspen in shade 39, mauve. The colour is showing correctly on my monitor. I used a bit less than one skein for the purse body. The Icord and the lobster stitch cord used up much of the second skein. The yarn was a gift from my SP, Ruth. I have another skein left (in UFO form, more of that later).
Needles & Hook: Boye aluminium circulars, size 6.50 mm/10.5 I think. There’s no marking on the needle, but from the colour (dark green) and my knitting needle gauge, I’m thinking that’s the size. It was sent me by Heide. Surprisingly light. Too long for this project of course, but I used my version of the Magic Loop or whatever. Also a Boye 6.5 mm/K/10.5 hook, which supports my guestimate of the knitting needle size.
Pattern: Drew Emborsky‘s Purl McBigBottom
Time: 2 days
Size: 6″ x 10″ approx
Extra: #1 The pattern calls for 110 yds of the yarn, but one skein of my yarn was only about 57m. Maybe if you take the Icord and the eyelet cord, it adds up.
#2 The yarn is really yummy and soft.
#3 I’m proud to have mastered the lobster stitch. The finished cord looks like a golden lanyard seen on some naval uniforms. Here’s a closeup:
I’ve been asked twice in the last two days about traditional knitting in India. As far as I know, we only have an oral tradition and no written-down patterns as such, but I’m hoping my friends here can tell me more. Did we have knitting before the British colonised us? Are there traditional patterns?
Someone says she saw knitted vests in Rajasthan. Does that sound familiar to anyone?
I am totally ashamed of not knowing more, but would love this opportunity to find out, if anyone knows.
This photo is for Yasmin, who wanted to see how big a winder is. The pen is to show relative size. I hope this helps? It’s definitely an amazing piece of machinery 🙂
I’ve joined the Dishcloth KAL (can be CAL, too) and can’t wait to start my first one. Acrylics have been certified as acceptable, so Off I’ll Go!Wheeee.
Here’s the button:
Badly foiled. I thought I had two alternatives to make the Sarcelle in my stash. One is a hank of bluey-green silk and the other some cashmere in a pale blue colourway from hipknits.co.uk
But the silk is now lying in a depressing tangle despite my best efforts and the cashmere is breaking when I try to wind it. Is that common with cashmere? Am I supposed to coddle it? But then what will happen when I try to knit with it? Or even if I manage to knit with it, what happens to the finished object? Why is it so delicate?
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Silk has it in for me. Some silk I bought here on a cone is also standing there mocking me for not being able to use it because of tangling. I shall go hide my head under the pillow until it’s safe to come out. Don’t mind me.
Was: Lusting after this
Originally uploaded by kristigeraci.
Isn’t this just amazing? Wonderful lace and great colour.
One day I shall figure out how to pay in dollars and just before becoming bankrupt I shall buy this pattern. Oh, and the yarn, too, I suppose. Or a compatible one.
Edited to add: An enabler in Europe swished her wand almost as soon as I posted this and made it possible for me to own a legitimate (paid for) copy of this pattern. Thank you so much!
Now I have to turn over my stash to see what I have that will be suitable to make this with. Oh, the pressure!
I am quite spineless, but I liked the washcloth patterns, the slipstitch bag pattern and the tweedy bag pattern. Not attracted by the wearables, because I wouldn’t find the yarn or any reason to use them…
Going for a second look…
umm, variegated top, no.
red drapey pullover is fine.
is that sweater blue or green? it looks as though it might be soft to the touch.
another red sweater. Nice lace pattern, but I suppose Fall means lots of red.
the man’s cardigan looks like a machine-knit. I can’t imagine ever reaching that level.
nor expert enough for the kids pullover.
nor ever knit something as large as a skirt (wouldn’t sitting down in that be tricky?)
I’ll never knit an afghan either no matter how pretty.
can’t knit socks yet.
hmm, socks on two straight needles? maybe…
nice pink children’s backpack, if it were unfelted?
a two-in-one hat-cum-neckwarmer. Nice idea.
interesting blue wrap. Modular, eh? And all garter stitch, my favourite stitch pattern.
Ok, that sums it up. Now you go and figure out which pattern I was talking about 😀
This is how I feel:
because the major knitting project I’m working on now is a baby blanket in Lion Brand cotton for a baby who will be living in Chennai. I *absolutely* have to make something for the baby, so I’m hoping this will be a good thing. I cannot see it wearing any sort of warm clothes ever. Even knitting with this sort of cotton makes me feel it would be too heavy. Maybe I can try making some wearables with some double-stranded thread or something. Hmm. Interesting thought. But I digress.
The pattern is mindless enough (a glorified dishcloth, really) and I was whizzing away in the beginning. Now I’ve hit the widest section (still getting wider) and man, is it slow-going! 😦
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
Not very informative, but it’s about 29″ each side. I have to get to 36″ for a decent size and it looks like never happening.
Also, I’m on my second skein and fast depleting. There is only one more skein left, which most probably will not be enough to complete the thing.
Two positive things, though. The Denise #7s are working through the yarn like butter through a knife er, a knife through butter. Smoooooooooooooth. And I really enjoy having the freedom to increase the length of the cable at will. I wouldn’t have been able to do this one on my local cable needles.
The other thing is this:
See those eyelets? Those are the kind of eyelets I was supposed to have on my Eyelet Border Facecloth but didn’t. The secret of my success this time was doing my yarnovers differently. Yes, as simple as that.
You see, I knit with the yarn in my right hand, throwing it under and around the right hand needle (makes me English or something, blimey!) to make my knit stitch; but! throwing it over and around the right hand needle for a yarnover. No idea why I do this, but this effectively made my eyelets disappear. For some reason, I decided to follow the same movement for yarnovers that I do for my knit stitch in this pattern, and voila! I have an eyelet. Epiphany.
Actually I think this might have happened because I’m also working on this pattern, where the instructions say yfwd instead of yo, but the effect is the same. Whodathunkit?
(Yes, I know it’s a bit blingy, but I recently was given two skeins of some eyelash that was begging to be knit).
(And yes, I am not very snobbish about novelty yarns, I’m afraid.) 😛
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