I fixed a couple of pics in the last entry, took new ones in daylight, such an innovative idea!, and swapped them for the dusky excuses for pictures that I posted this weekend.
I have been a busy bee lately. Nothing makes you forget a heart ache like weaving in ends and sewing on buttons on projects you had forgotten you had ever made. I’m gifting like crazy, and I’m loving every minute of it.
What? Centersquare from Knitty.
Yarn: Paton’s Classic Merino (100% wool, 223 yards), sage, about 2/3 or a skein, burgundy, no more than half a skein.
Needles: Addi Turbos, size 3 (3.25 mm), for most of it, then I moved and found that you can’t find the very same size in Sweden. I finished it with cheap 3 mm circs.
As I wrote in my last entry I made a few modifications, most importantly, I worked it with a single strand on US3′s instead of double on US11′s as the pattern calls for it. It meant a ton more repeats width wise and an extra circle on top as well. I was too lazy to look up how to get rid off the job at the beginning of each round, and didn’t pay attention when I snapped the picture and naturally got it in the front, so you can see it…
What? Daisy from Knitty.
Yarn: TLC Cotton Plus (51% cotton/49% acrylic, 186 yards), spruce, 1 skein, lavender, little itty bitty amounts.
Needles: US6/4 mm circs, probably Denises.
I’ve already blogged this, but I finally put on the buttons and had to do a recap. The color is most true on the first picture, and the way this pattern is written makes me want to marry the Yarn Harlot. Unfortunately I think she’s already taken… I put striped sleeves instead of making flowers or snakes, since I like to keep baby clothes as ungendered as possible.
What? The Irish Hiking Scarf and a modified Coronet from Knitty.
Yarn: Lion Brand WoolEase (80% acrylic, 20% wool, 162 yd/146m), Pines print, 3 or 4 skeins (I can’t remember!)
Needles: US8/5 mm, straights and DPNs.
I knitted these for my dad for Christmas 2005. They have been waiting for their ends to be weaved in since then. Sadly, I’m not even kidding. Today I finally finished them, a year and two months after I bound off. That’s what you call slow progress! My only modification was to swap the cable in Coronet for the one in the Irish Hiking Scarf, so that the hat and scarf would match.
The state of my needles have been driving me crazy for a long time. When I moved home and suddenly had all the time in the world (well, not really, but let’s pretend) I went searching for fabric in the basement and made this. The inside is grey courdorouy or however the hell you spell it, and the all but straight pockets are some fabric my mom thought she had bought at Ikea a million years ago to make curtains. She never did and I got to play with it instead. Awesome. I didn’t follow a pattern, I just measured my longest needle and made pockets from that. And no, that’s not all my needles. Most of them are still packed down, actually…
