This was the bag that Viji gifted me for my stash. Nice! Handmade by a lady in Pune.
A new tenant from Indonesia over there on the right side —-> Go and check it out!
Got this from Grumperina's blog and I'm about 3 months outdated, but what a neat concept!
If it weren't scarves and shrugs, maybe I'd join the next one. What do you think, Cordelia? A lacy-ish cardigan would be nice and I can't seem to bring myself to finish anything of that size for myself. What a nice concept. Will there be a next one?
Still on knitting. I'm trying out the short row technique on this pattern: Short rows baby jacket
It doesn't look too bad…Using the grey Froya Narvik 100% wool (no indications of any allergic reaction, thank you) with 3.75mm needles. The lightbulb hasn't yet gone off in my head for this technique, though it seems logical enough. 3 ways to wrap, only tried one yet.
Here is how it looks so far:
I think I'm confusing myself because I'm trying to work simultaneously from the pattern as well as tutorials for the technique from the original site, from knitty.com and so on, plus there's some wrapping instruction in the pattern as well. Too many teachers.
The shaping is happening, but I don't think it would stand up to closer scrutiny.
I was browsing knitting podcasts and came across this gem:
let me explaiKnit
It's got detailed notes on several knitting issues and I've not read them all yet! I hope she's got a tutorial in there somewhere for circular needles…What a find!
Edited to add:
I got the link from Pointy Sticks.
There's so much knitting wealth out there. Where have I been all this while?!
Then there is Nona as well.
It's Mr. B's birthday coming up, so off you go and wish him, please!
Remember the fun-furry yarns that J had sent me from Lucknow? Well, both have been needled. One is yet a UFO, but the blue feather type got made into this mini scarf for my poor neglected SP. It feels really soft. Knit in garter stitch throughout on straights.
Yarn: Vardhman funfur-ry 1 50gm ball
Hook: Size 7 (UK?) 4.50mm straights
Pattern: Garter stitch, 24 sts wide
Time: Overnight
Size: About 36" long and 5" wide
Extra: Knitting is best for fur-type yarns. The simplicity of the garter stitch shows the texture well.
On a closer look, the yarn looks like something to do with chickens…
Following the lead of Sara, I've sold space on my blog and my first tenant is Full Metal Photographer who has some interesting photos. Go pay him a visit!
I've become bored with reading all the mails about Michaels closing and also about Mainstays being discontinued and about the 8oz skeins now becoming 7 oz skeins.
We don't get any of those here, so it's all academic anyway. And it increases the feeling of Alice Through the Looking Glass that I get most of the time from reading about all those brands and shops.
Oh well, now I've become one of those irritable slapper-downers. Sigh.
Remember the SWIP I talked about long long ago when we were all young and innocent? Well, it has graduated now from being a SWIP to an NLSWIP (No Longer a Secret Work in Progress) or an OFO (Open Finished Object). Three cheers for me!
Here it is in part of its glory (it was too long for me to photograph in one frame horizontally without employing a step ladder and/or stilts).
So now you know, it is a Lacy Knit Scarf (or maybe a Stole? We're not particular here) in what is probably 100% acrylic, but very soft mango-y yellow, and it is going to be sent to a friend. I'm thrilled to bits for several reasons:
1. It's knit! (as in, not crocheted!)
2. It's lacy knit!
3. It's lacy knit without a written pattern and from a chart!
4. It's lacy knit from a chart I manipulated in order to get it to the width I wanted!
5. Yippee!
6. It's knit! (as in, It's done!)
And so forth.
Here is how it might look on a person…
…if the said person has shoulders about a foot wide and does not rise more than 3 feet above the ground. Now, I think the recipient is definitely not these proportions, but I'm sure I shall be forgiven for my first attempt at such a project. We shall see. Anyhow, here are the tech specs:
Yarn: Unknown acrylic in mango-y yellow
Hook: Size 7 (UK?) 4.50mm straights
Pattern: Made up my very own! (Yippee!)
Time: Aeons
Size: About 60" long and 10" wide
Extra: #Look at points 1-6 above
Nobody will please mention the trifling errors I made or the weird proportions. Or the fact that I probably yarn over all wrong. The thing is you see (all those with more important things to do may please leave now), I knit with the yarn in my right hand and for normal stitches I yarn over from under (clear as mud, aren't I). But for the lace-effect YOs, I tend to YO from over! Got that? Plus, according to the instructions in the book where I got the lace pattern from, I was supposed to do K1, P1 into the YO on the subsequent row. Being as I'd reversed the direction of my YO, I did P1, K1, since it was more convenient! So I think it's all wrong, but *shrug* it's got the look! And I sort of know how to use a chart to knit now. Yay!
And although it is acrylic, I did block it, on the sage advice of the scientific mind. The lace needed to be opened up.
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