February 26th, 2010
There are times that things just seem to spiral out of control. This next week may just be one of them. There are fairly benign instances of spiral such as this:
57/365 Spiral
And then there are those out of control spirals that tend to make me a bit more loopy than normal:
spiral...take two
Which is precisly whiy I prefer to knit socks (or anything else for that matter) with double point needles or using the magic loop method. I just spend way too much time trying to keep things under some semblance of detanglement.
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February 25th, 2010
I seem to have hit a dry spot in the creativity department lately. I am slogging away on the sleeves of this sweater, and haven’t felt like any of my photos have been much good either.
56/365 progress
I am finding that knitting both of the sleeves at the same time isn’t too bad. The good thing is that I am getting all the increases done evenly. The hard part is that it seems like sleeve island is lasting forever.
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February 24th, 2010
It is amazing the difference in a few short weeks. This tree was just barely budding a couple of weeks ago, now look at it! Next time I take a look it will probably have leaves and everything.
54/365 Signs of spring
Speaking of spring green, after my failed attempt at the Skew sock, I am back to working on my Ginny sweater. Since the Olympics is all about the challenge for me and there is a very real possibility that I may not get all of the pieces done and put together by the time that the Olympic Flame is extinguished, I am attempting to knit both sleeves at the same time, in the round so that I have a few less seams to stitch together in the end.
sleeves in progresss
I hope that I can keep everything straight and not totally mess this up!
55/365 keely
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February 23rd, 2010
I really wanted this pattern to work. It has been fun to knit (at least it was once I got over my initial inability to read the directions) and despite the row upon row of stockinette stitch, it kept my attention.
Sadly it is not a match made in heaven. It might have worked with a different yarn choice or slightly larger needles. But it isn’t going to work with the yarn I started with. So it is off to the frog pond. I’m going back to the sweater project.
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February 22nd, 2010
First things first, I was quite taken with the Skew sock from the winter Knitty.
53/365 Skew sock
Pretty huh? It is one of those patterns that are quite compulsive, I keep wanting to knit a bit more to see what will happen next.
Tags: socks
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February 21st, 2010
It is Sunday night and once again I am left wondering where the weekend went. We spent the weekend doing just normal things since we didn’t have a gymnastics meet. We walked the dogs, took the kids out to lunch, worked on household chores and suddenly the weekend just evaporated into Sunday evening.
52/365 rose
The Brandywine shawl is done, just waiting for blocking, I am kind of stalled on my Ginny sweater, the socks I started are on a temporary time out. So what’s a knitter to do?
blanket time
I chose to dive into some sock yarn blanket knitting.
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February 20th, 2010
50/365 Gotta have heart
Yesterday’s 365 photo that wouldn’t cooperate.
51/365 He said what?
Seattle’s sky couldn’t have been any bluer today. There is no doubt about it, spring is definitely here early this year.
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February 19th, 2010
I am having technical difficulties getting my pictures uploaded for a decent post, so I apologieze profusely. I am finding it quite frustrating.
In addition to finishing Brandywine, I now have the back of my sweater, one front and one and a half cuffs of my sweater done. I am hoping that I can I can get all the pieces done, blocked and put together by the end of the Olympics.
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February 18th, 2010
When I get home every evening, I am often pinned down by this critter:
49/365 Love mommy, my mommy
Despite that particular critter’s dubious help, I manage to get a bit done. Tonight I finished the knitting on the Brandywine Shawl. I increased the repeats on chart B by two and still have a little bit of yarn left. It is difficult to determine if I have enough left to have added one more repeat. I think it might have been possible, but it would have been close.
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February 17th, 2010
Thanks to Chris, I now have the perfect buttons for my Ginny sweater:
48/365 Buttons for my sweater
I got these at Madrona from the Gita Maria booth. Yes, they were pricey, but I think that they are perfect for this project. Buttons to me can sometimes make or break a project. If I am going to put in the hours to create something well made, I certainly do not want to detract from the end result by putting the wrong buttons with it. If I happen to have the perfect buttons at home in my button stash, then I do use them. Sometimes they just are not quite right.
I am glad that I held out for these. I can’t wait to get to the point where all the pieces come together. Since the Brandywine shawl and finishing this sweater are my goals for these Olympics, I hope that I don’t have too many more knitting errors in the immediate future.
I almost ripped out the repeat completely before coming to my senses and snapping a picture. Then I realized I hadn’t switched the settings on the camera. Oh well.
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