This is the softest, squishiest cotton scarf ever. Just in time for summer in San Francisco ... ha! No matter, it'll be chilly here soon enough.
These are man-sized gloves on my woman-sized hands. I've gotten as far as I can with the yarn I have left.
The other day I started thinking of cool things you could do with knit cables. I did some searches and I couldn't find what I had in my head. So I made a swatch.
I'm plowing ahead on the fingerless gloves. I figured out how to use my double pointed needles. I learned the
tubular cast on from a Ysolda Teague you tube video for the ribbed cuff. I also learned the cable cast on from the Stitch and Bitch book for the top of the thumb hole.
Andrew loves this scarf. It's too long, but he wears it anyway, which is a testament to just how much he loves it. For a long time (omg, it's been *years*) I've been saying, "I can make it shorter." But now that I can knit, I thought I'd actually tackle this project.
After letting the sweater sit for months, I got the urge to try and fix the armhole and neck line situation.
I bought some SUPER fancy (read: expensive) cotton yarn to knit Andrew a scarf. I made all sorts of fancy swatches for him to choose from (no photos), but he always came back to stockinette as his favorite.
This weekend I finished up my first knitted sweater. It's awful.
Last Sunday I was sitting on a bench in Yerba Buena Gardens knitting, and two older Chinese women slowly walked by me smiling and nodding at my knitting. I smiled back. The younger woman, who I'm guessing is in her 60s, stopped. She started talking to me in Chinese. I held out my knitting to her so she could see the fabric. She touched it and ooo'd and ahhh'd.
I've been using my courdory bag to go to the laundr-o-mat and grocery store. I have a brand new fancy phone, and I feel like protecting it. There was a perfect little project in the Stitch 'n' Bitch book!
Craft time has been very limited lately which makes working on big projects impossible. But having snippets of time here and there is perfect for working on my knitting skills, because I only know how to knit and how to purl. Five minutes working on knitting and purling seems like an eternity. In a good way.
I made plans with a friend to go to Craft Bar last Thursday. In between making plans to go and the big night, I got an email from a wonderful woman with the Museum because she saw my post about
Open Source Embroidery. She thanked me for my post invited me to Craft Bar. And I said, "Oh, yeah, I'll be there!"
I don't feel like taking the time to actually submit it to
fail blog. No one but us would probably get it anyway ... right? ;)
Wow! Thanks for all the owl links in the comments of
my last post! It's a smart suggestion that I start out with something small like a hat, mittens, or a scarf before I try a sweater (oh, here's the link to the
owl sweater pdf if you want it).
I like to ponder things for a while before jumping in, so knitting probably won't happen for me for a while. In fact, because of
the challenge, it'll probably be 2010 before I pick up the pointy sticks, because I'll need to buy some.
I've been feeling the pull to start knitting.
And then Strawberry emailed me a link to this
owl sweater. Oh, man. The button eyes just kill me. I've saved the
free pdf pattern for my knitting future ...
** Edit: you can find the pattern here **