I’m never going to whittle down the WIP list with the rate at which I cast on projects. At least I finished one before starting 3. And one of those was killed very early in the process too, but we’ll get back to that.
I finished Kat’s socks Thursday night at the MY SnB as I’d hoped.
Project Details:
Pattern: Mine over 48 st
Yarn: Lisa Souza Sock! in What-A-Melon colorway
Started: 9/24
Finished: 9/28
The happy little girl wore them to preschool/daycare on Friday. Gosh I love a quick project. Cross the Kat’s socks off the WIP list.
Thursday I bounded off to Purl to pick up the yarn for Bayerische. Thursday night, after finishing Kat’s socks, I cast on using the white (seen pink in the pathetic treo photo). By the time I called it quits for bed, I had gotten the ribbing done and had started the first of the patterning. Here you can tell the yarn is actually a pure white. (Incidentally, I learned the the Louet Gems is the white yarn that is used by others to make their Handpainted sock yarns.) After finishing the first repeat and a half of the cableing, I was just not happy at how it looked. The gapping around the stitches, I think they were just too sharp. I’m going to try it with a less tightly twisted yarn, or order the Jawoll that Eunny used. But I pulled needles from it without getting another picture. Oh well. Maybe I’ll use this yarn to play with a little dyeing myself.
So while Bayerische never made it to the WIP list (heck it started and killed in less than 24 hours), I don’t have to pull it off. I’m also going to be putting Kat’s Dale sweater on hold and out of active too. I just can’t bring myself to do it. And well, I started a new sweater for her. I picked up some Cascade Superwash (amongst some other things at MY’s one year anniversary sale on Sunday) in a purple and teal. Augmenting with some bright pink that I bought there in the spring (IIRC the visit where Deb and I met Wendy) and am doing a randomly striped EZ Baby Surprise Sweater. I had a random number generator pick 100 numbers with a minimum of 1 and a max of 9, and display in 3 columns. Each column represents one of the colors and controls the number of garter ridges of that color. I started this last night and am now around row 27. The garter stitch is a nice break from all the stockinette flat knitting that I’ve been doing recently. Hopefully tonight I’ll snap a good shot of this pretty little thing.
I did make some progress on Ivy and am 4 repeats into the stockinette of the back. I try to work on it a little each day (HA!). It really hasn’t progressed too much further since the last picture so I really don’t have anything to show. The drape is lovely and the fabric is wonderful. As an aside, Kat saw the bag of the Lavold Silky Wool sitting in the yarn basket and demanded a sweater for her made out of it. Pushy little kid she is!
I couldn’t hold out, I just had to start working on Ariann. Especially with a KAL formed by Bonne Marie herself! So Friday evening (or was it Saturday, the 3 day weekend really threw me for a loop), I dug out the Plymouth Galway that I had started Eris in, oh so long ago. Sadly that sweater never amounted to anything more than about half the collar. After over a year, it was only mercy that required me to pronounce it. I’ve reclaimed the yarn, whose color I so totally love, and gave it a new purpose in life. The gauge is spot on for the pattern and I like the resulting fabric. I cast on and what with the long weekend (and knitting to get through the fast yesterday!) I made it well into the increase portion above the waist. Totally digging the pattern. Will also try and get a good picture of it tonight too. It has proven difficult in the past to photograph well as the colors change depending on light. Love it.
Well time to get some lunch,
Craft on!
