DONE!
Very silent but for good reasons. As this is a knitting blog, it doesn't work if there's no knitting! Instead, H.I. has been overseas for two fortnights, Til and I drove 900km to and from Adelaide (not sure I want to hear Justine Clarke sing the swinging song ever again), we've had lots of lovely houseguests and spent the inbetween weekends cleaning up the house and garden.
The Tilster is very actively 2 at the moment with all the attention demanding that goes with this. On top of that, she's giving up naps. Woe is me! Still, she's bright, bubbly and doing all the right things toward toilet training.
None of these activities are conducive to knitting. So today I went to my LYS to get some concentrated knitting time in to finish off the edges of this...
(photos to be added when flaming batteries for camera have charged!)
Hurrah!
Deets: Spring Garden Tee by Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting
Needles: 4mm x 60cm circular; 3.75mm x 40cm circular; 4x3.75dpns
Yarn: SWTC Bamboo 2x 100gm balls
Notions: sitch markers essential; yarn needle for sewing in ends
Notes on the pattern:
A beautiful knit but the pattern was difficult to read. This may not be the writer's issue but probably more about me. I was always trying to knit this at night when I was usually pretty tired and couldn't concentrate very well on the increases. Third time proved to be the charm. The pattern worked better for me when I wrote out the stitch count between each marker for all the increase rows. After that there was several centimeters of soothing working-in-the-round to calm me down.
In the version of the pattern I have the sleeve edging/finishing states:
"Return left sleeve sts to size 5 needle. With RS facing, join yarn and purl 1 row. Bind off all sleeve sts. Repeat for right sleeve."
When I did this it became obvious that there was about 10 stitches that needed to be picked up under the arm for the sleeve before joining up the stitches on the waste yarn. Either I completely buggered up the underarm bit (not impossible!) or picking up the stitches was left out of the pattern instructions. Not sure which!
Now, on with the socks!
The Tilster is very actively 2 at the moment with all the attention demanding that goes with this. On top of that, she's giving up naps. Woe is me! Still, she's bright, bubbly and doing all the right things toward toilet training.
None of these activities are conducive to knitting. So today I went to my LYS to get some concentrated knitting time in to finish off the edges of this...
(photos to be added when flaming batteries for camera have charged!)
Hurrah!
Deets: Spring Garden Tee by Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting
Needles: 4mm x 60cm circular; 3.75mm x 40cm circular; 4x3.75dpns
Yarn: SWTC Bamboo 2x 100gm balls
Notions: sitch markers essential; yarn needle for sewing in ends
Notes on the pattern:
A beautiful knit but the pattern was difficult to read. This may not be the writer's issue but probably more about me. I was always trying to knit this at night when I was usually pretty tired and couldn't concentrate very well on the increases. Third time proved to be the charm. The pattern worked better for me when I wrote out the stitch count between each marker for all the increase rows. After that there was several centimeters of soothing working-in-the-round to calm me down.
In the version of the pattern I have the sleeve edging/finishing states:
"Return left sleeve sts to size 5 needle. With RS facing, join yarn and purl 1 row. Bind off all sleeve sts. Repeat for right sleeve."
When I did this it became obvious that there was about 10 stitches that needed to be picked up under the arm for the sleeve before joining up the stitches on the waste yarn. Either I completely buggered up the underarm bit (not impossible!) or picking up the stitches was left out of the pattern instructions. Not sure which!
Now, on with the socks!
posted by Kate at 3:39 PM
3 Comments:
Hi, its not great when they give up their sleep is it, glad you could get some down/knitting time. Looking forward to seeing the photos.
Adelaide! Heavens above that's a long, long way.
I have a question for your good self and readers. I recently picked up the two unfinished socks that I started about two years ago. DH claims that sock knitting is somewhat pointless (given that they are usually hidden beneath boots and jeans).
It just occurred to me that I need to explain that the satisfaction is in the process as much as the finished article, but I could use some more ideas to explain the attraction of this arcane craft!
It's funny - it wasn't until I read a few more posts that I realized you seem to share the sock obsession...
/waves at bec
I should get myself along to Knitting and Knotting one of these days, but I can't seem to knit and talk at the same time...
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