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Baby Fridays

What I’ve been doing

09.13.09 | Tags: Baby Fridays, Fun with dyes, Misc | Comments: (0)

August few by quickly. I had a month of school already. Its quite weird that this is my last year of learning in a classroom, next year its onto the hospitals. My school instituted this mandatory attendance policy with fingerprinting in which I spend an ungodly number of hours sitting in a darkened room learning about how to treat diseases before we learn what caused the disease. Its so backwards! So I’ve taken my knitting into school and knit during class. I knitted a cute little pullover for one of my classmate’s new baby boy. Though it may be a year before the baby can wear it. I knitted a 6mo-1 year old size but I think its more like a 1-2 year size. Oh well that’s what happens when you knit without a swatch.

I’m still dyeing yarn in my spare time on the weekends. Its expanding. I’ve got 12lbs of yarn in my possession waiting to be dyed when I get the chance.

My dog has gone to live with my mom until winter break. I don’t like walking her in the morning, in the dark, in the cold. I am missing our afternoon long walks looking for cats in the neighborhood and chasing squirrels. In the meantime I haven’t done any dog torture for a while. She has either forgotten how muzzle stacking works or that the cheezeits are so yummy that she just can’t help herself, she was horrible at muzzle stacking. I only managed to stack one for maybe 2 seconds before she knocked it down and ate it.

I actually wrote a majority of this post last week but never posted it. I am only doing it now cause I have a huge 4 hour exam tomorrow and so I am procrastinating it (the weekend before the last 4 hour exam I was procrastinating by dyeing yarn). No dyeing this weekend however I am doing more knitting in between cramming information on the heart.

I’m knitting my own version of Conwy from Knitting on the Road. My version meaning after an inch in the leg, I can’t find where I placed the pattern so I did the heel flap and turn and stuff on a whim. I’m using my own handdyed Mumbi II yarn on size 0 needles. I am knitting this for my self but I am getting close to two dozen working pairs of socks in my possession. Is it too much? I am already getting overwhelmed by yarn yarn collection. I fully realized that I have more yarn than I can possibly knit in the next few yarns at the rate that I am going. Maybe I’ll get overwhelmed by socks once I reach a point in which I have enough handknit socks to last a winter without repeating!

Baby Fridays - how Baby eats a cookie

02.06.09 | Tags: Baby Fridays | Comments: (3)

Baby lives with my mom now so I don’t get many opportunities to take photos of her nowadays. This video was taken during my Christmas vacation in West Virginia. She does this funny sequence of events before she will eat a piece of cookie and she only does this outside where she can roll around in the grass/dirt. If you want to see her eat a piece of cherry tomato also check out the youtube video I posted a few years ago.

Baby Fridays - Hemlock veil

04.25.08 | Tags: Baby Fridays, Lace | Comments: (4)

j/k its the Hemlock Ring blanket. Baby was nice enough to let me photograph her with it though I would have liked her to sitting up with the blanket. I tried but she insisted on laying down. Temperamental model!
I finally got around photographing this thing a few days ago, it was done a week or two ago and then got tossed under some pillows so I totally forgot about it. This project was interesting a bit boring, okay a lot of boringness. I was really motivated to work on it for a week or two in December and then the stitches got more numerous and I got bored of it so it was put aside for a few months. I finally picked it back up after seeing that Tina had finished her blanket in a few days. I couldn’t let my hemlock dwell any longer. If it only took her a few days to do it on #7 with worsted weight yarn, it shouldn’t be too long for me to finish it since mine was on aran weight and on #10s. It only took a few nights to complete, though the edging was a pain in the butt. Its pretty, now I have a bulky lacy blankie for the summer heat.

Pattern: Hemlock Ring blanket by Jared Flood
Yarn: 10 skeins of Cleckheaton Merino Supreme, the softest merino ever, comparable to Malabrigo but superwash
Needles: #10 Knitpicks
Time to knit: 4 months but it was in hibernation for three and a half of those months
Gripes: I ran out of yarn so its only a small lap blanket or a blanket for Baby, not that she needs any
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Ze Bebeh Fridays - A Bigger Swallowtail Shawl

04.11.08 | Tags: Baby Fridays, Lace, Scarves and shawls | Comments: (1)

My last swallowtail is tiny, it couldn’t be wrapped around me, it was more like a kerchief. I really liked knitting the pattern, its beautifully written and simple. So I modified the pattern so that I can turn out one that can be actually called a shawl and wear like a shawl. I thought that knitting it up in a thicker yarn would make a sturdier and warmer shawl. I could have used the yarn in my stash but I couldn’t resist the Bernat Soy yarn on clearance at Michaels. I bought 12 skeins, 2 colors, 6 skeins each, all for 12 bucks! I should have bought all of it (I left about another dozen skeins) had I known how much I like this yarn. Despite being half acrylic, its a really lovely yarn. It is incredibly soft, good drape, shiny, and not sheddy like the Patons SWS, the other soy blend I’ve used.

While I really enjoyed knitting this pattern and with this yarn, I think Baby liked it even more cause after awhile, I noticed that the shawl started to smell like her! I left this project to be done mostly at home, so I don’t know what she does with this shawl when I’m gone. Possibly (most likely) licking it and sleeping on it. Its a good thing this yarn is not a dog hair magnet like wool!

Pattern: Swallowtail shawl from Interweave knits Fall 2006
Yarn: Bernat Soy, 5 skeins
Needles: #7 Knitpicks
Time to knit: Two weeks
Gripes: why do I keep knitting shawls when I have never ever in my life used one!
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