April 2008 Archives
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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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Dyeing for socks
04.21.08 | Tags: Fun with dyes, Misc, Socks | Comments: (1)Sunday, in between games of tennis and bowling on the Wii (knitting is going to slow down because of this new Wii), I was dyeing like crazy. First, I dyed up a skein of Knitpicks bare sock yarn in a color that I have been wanted to dye. I think this is the first time that I have dyed yarn that came out close to the color that I wanted to achieve. Most of the time, my dyeing is very inexact, I have an idea of what I want but no plans. I just mix up a bunch of colors and hope for the best. This time, however, I wanted a light yellow with hints of brown for something that looks like chocolate covered bananas.
The second part of my dyeing day was with this idea in mind. The crazy idea that I would dye up some sock yarn and spin it like the Noro sock yarn. So here is my plan to spin up some Noro like sock yarn. I have about five pounds mill end wool/nylon blend fibers. Mill end being that its mostly not one long continuous roving, instead its a bunch of smallish pieces rovings with some being nicely blended while others, well have quite a bit of visible nylon. I dyed several colors in the microwave. I didn’t plan out the colors ahead of time but I think they came out pretty well. I was especially pleased with the one that is a golden yellow/orange. When it was in the jar being dyed it reminded me of canned peaches!
I would need to handcard all of them before spinning which would be quite an ordeal. and then I can spin it. I could do a one ply like Noro or for some more stability and strength I would navajo ply it to get a 3-ply. I hope this crazy idea works out!With all this sock yarn lying around, I really need more sock mojo to knit them up. But currently, I have none of it. I attempted to cast on a pair of socks on Sunday. Attempted being I got out the winder, wound a skein of sock yarn into a center pull ball, went to my Ravelry queue to find a suitable pattern. Casted on 56 sts on #2, frogged it, casted on 64 st on #1, frogged it, put the whole ball of yarn and the idea of knitting socks aside. Sigh. Knitting socks are not for me right now.
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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!
Ravelry LinkyOne more Baby pic!
One more, cause shes so cute!
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