UGH The front of this vest gave me such a hassle! I had to undo and redo the front b/c of the friggin cables TEN TIMES. Now I am on a roll with Grey Poupon: That pink and blue thing in the picture is one of the point protectors I made with my homemade clay. [...]
Archive > January 2008
Vestilence: The back is done
PHEW!!! I finally got the back finished at 9pm tonight. I will probably start the other one either later tonight if I can’t sleep or tomorrow sometime. It is amazing to see something come together like this. Can you see the blue pyramid in the middle? I can. I love the colors. If the yarn [...]
Homemade Clay for Notions
Last night I decided to experiment with a homemade clay that can be baked into any shape. It’s a simple mix of salt, flour, oil, and water and VOILA clay. I made a few different kinds of ends for my knitting needles to see how they would come out. I believe that next time I [...]
Vestilence & Navy Blues progress
Well I am alone for 4 days (my kid is with his grandparent, the man has to work) so I have plenty of time to fiddle around with some fibers. Here is Vestilence at around 13 inches long. I still have 5 inches and some yarn in my roll. I think I will need another [...]
Continental or English?
I just learned how to throw English style yesterday while watching Knitty Gritty. Something about the way the lady on television was doing it just finally clicked for me. I have found that I enjoy purling continental and knitting English. It goes much faster for me than just knitting and purling continental. I am flying [...]
Vestilence & Navy Blues
My newest project on the needles is this. It may have to wait to get finished as I only have one skein of the yarn I am using and I need to get at least 2 more. I wasn’t going to use this yarn for the project, but it works out better than the yarn [...]
It’s electric! Glasses case
It’s electric! Glasses case This was my interim project so that I didn’t just start another sweater right away. I was going to crochet it but I didn’t have enough yarn to do that so it ended up being knitted on my size 8 circulars. I wanted to try the magic loop method and I [...]
ACountryMint done??
Well in terms of the pattern I was basing my work from, yes this sweater is done. BUT In my head, after trying it on, I find that my shoulders are FREEZING so I am going to make two bands to go across there What do you all think? Tags: sweater, knitted+sweater
Just 48 more rows….
Okay we are down to the most tedious part of this process to date. I am fighting my way through the last boring ribbing rows of this sweater and praying that it fits when I am done. I did all my measurements and calculations. I did all the adjusting and fixing. It’s nearly the moment [...]
ACountryMint Sweater in the last stages
Here we are in the last stages of the sweater I began on the 26th of December 07. I have about 6 inches more to go up the top and then I am supposedly finished. I had a few snags in the middle, like when I added the sleeve parts they left holes on either [...]
