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November 16, 2005
Posts like this bore my poor boyfriend to tears.
Here are some things that I'm knitting right now (please remember that I live in a dingy shack in the trees, and excuse the piss-poor lighting):
First up, the long-suffering Glampyre boobholder. This is the same one I finished months ago, which fit perfectly until after I blocked it. I barely have enough yarn, so right now I'm knitting and unraveling and knitting and unraveling and knitting, trying to get it as long as I can with the yarn I have. This will be the last time, I think. Of course now that I've said that I'm sure to mess up again; the knitting gods don't take well to hubris.
This is boobholder #2, which will have longer sleeves. I haven't decided yet, but I'm thinking perhaps they will stop just above the elbow. I've used a yarn over increase for the raglan shaping (the same as the one above), and added a vertical line of yarn overs down the sleeve to match:
The colours are more accurate in the detail picture; it's a recycled lambswool with three plies, one brown, one pale blue and one dark blue. This is my current bus knitting and is probably about a week and a half from completion if I only knit on the bus. Maybe longer, though, because I really want to walk to campus more often instead.
Here's yet another top-down raglan cardigan, this one loosely based on Laura's pattern in Take Back the Knit 2. I say loosely because I started with the same number of cast on stitches, but haven't looked at the pattern since because the zine got buried under the crap on my kitchen table. I'll probably add a hood, and switch to some other colour for the bottom half, since I'm likely going to run out of green. It's another recycled lambswool. Just in case you were thinking for a minute that I might have actually bought yarn, or something. As if.
This is something I'm test knitting for Amy. I have to finish this up over the weekend in order to give any sort of useful feedback in time. It's a mix of Noro Kureyon, leftover Lamb's Pride Worsted from the kitty hat, a bit of the green lambswool from the cardigan above, and some other odds.
This is the left front of another cardigan, and it's reminding me why I don't make sweaters from Vogue Knitting anymore. I found three miscrossed cables in the chart for the large cable pattern. Argh! Because of ripping out and fixing fucked-up cable crosses, I've got a whopping five inches done on this. But that's okay, because I've promised Hockey Mom that I won't work another stitch on this until I'm finished the Must Have Cardigan:
This is the second sleeve, half finished. After that all I have to do is decide, buttons or zipper? and finish it. I've decided not to bother going back and fixing the cable I miscrossed in the braid, way down near the four inch mark on the left front. Nobody will ever notice it, and I solemnly swear that I will refrain from pointing it out to every single person who compliments me on my sweater.
When the time comes I'll have to get you guys to help me decide on the buttons v. zipper thing. I would put a zipper in everything if I could, but I've got these sweet little vintage wooden buttons cut in a pinwheel pattern that would just rock this sweater. I'm worried, though, that it'll be too tight and I fear the gapey-holes over my paunch more than I fear death itself. So we'll have to have a little try-on after I block her as fiercely as I can, and then you guys will have to be totally honest with me about my gut, mmmkay?
One more promise: after these things are done, I won't knit anything else orange for a while. All my t-shirts are green or red or brown, for crying out loud; I have no idea what I'm going to wear all this orange with as it is.
Posted by jodi at November 16, 2005 09:50 PM | categories: sticks and string
Comments
You have quite the works in progress going! Perhaps you and I should swap some yarn -- I have an obscene amount of green (see blog post of earlier this week). Come to think of it, I have done quite a few projects in orange as well...
Posted by: Gina at November 17, 2005 06:58 AM
Hmm, "Must Have Cardigan"......why is that ringing some bells? Like some ancient pinging telling me I should know something about this....hmmmmmm...thinking,.....thinking.....
;-)
Posted by: Norma at November 17, 2005 08:33 AM
Wow, thems be a whole lot of in progress pieces :) I don't know how you balance it all.
That vogue sweater looks really snazzy, despite the errors. What VK is it from? I looooove all the orange :)
Posted by: Heather at November 17, 2005 10:56 AM
I LOVE kntting in the round!!! SO much that I think I may never design/knit anything on straights again! All of your projects look fabulous! I wish I had the adeptness for cables!
Posted by: christine at November 17, 2005 12:07 PM
You could wear all this orange with your red or green or brown t-shirts - Why not?
Here, I'll share my Ottawa weather with you today. Have some wind and some snowy rain.
Posted by: Lissa at November 17, 2005 12:45 PM
Orange goes with everything. EVERYTHING. Especially reds, browns, and purples. But really, everything. Except maybe black, because that can get kind of halloweeny.
I'll be honest about the buttons and the belly etc... but if you really have your heart set on using the buttons and the belly has other ideas, why not just button the two buttons over the chest and leave the rest open? I wear most of my cardis that way anyway because this rectangle of a torso of mine looks better like that.
Posted by: cari at November 17, 2005 12:47 PM
You know I have this bad habit of buying or knitting things that go with nothing I have as well. Like what was I thinking buying a yellow sweater when nothing I own is yellow or even in the same family. However, the orange sweater is looking lovely and maybe you should just use it as an excuse to wear it with some other colour. EVEN black, the heck with it.
Posted by: Rebecca at November 17, 2005 10:56 PM
Oh, that's the Vogue cabled cardigan that I've seen popping up here and there - I have a lot of things to knit before I could get to that, so I've been resisting buying the pattern from EBay - thanks for giving me another reason to hold off (or at least look for errata). Is it wrong if I say it looks nice, even if you kind of hate it?
Posted by: Donna at November 18, 2005 03:12 PM