Woman! Pullover done for Alchemy Yarns:
Such a pleasure to knit. Silk and kid mohair yarns double stranded. Oh so cuddly soft and light as air. I want one….. Anyway toodles everybody~ I’m off to maybe knit a teensy more or get all ranty. One never knows these days :^>
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Lotsa Mail
I got some Schaefer Yarns Elaine in colorway Pearl Buck this morning to knit up the sweater for designer I mentioned yesterday. I was surprised since, by the description of garment, I expected a summery cotton yarn instead of luxe luxe luxe merino. Its a cropped top, under bra cropped not waist cropped, with fringe and mitered shaping. Very youthful. Am swatching like mad. Later in the day I got the Alchemy yarns for the beautiful Woman! Pullover:
It’s a bit overexposed but did I mention swatching like mad? And lastly, on the nonknitting front, I ordered some shampoo for Ms Zoe. Many Many moons ago I used to shop at this little place called The Body Shop. No not that body shop but the original Body Shop which changed its name when the UK company decided to expand to the USA. It’s now called Body Time. The neat thing about this company is that it used to custom scent everything. And it had Carnation scented glycerine soap. Apparently I am the only person nutz for Carnation and the soap is gone but the custom scenting still exists. Not on the scale it used to since there are favorites and they carry some stuff scented in those favorite scents. But for a gal with excema or any other sensitivity its great. Anyway in addition to the unscented shampoo I splurged for some Hand Care Cake. Its abfantabulous. Give the hand care cake a try why don’t you and while you face the winters chill–with its horrid drying effects on skin–something unscented. Perfume, after all, is drying. Or live a daring life and custom scent! Here’s a picture of the pretty wrapping and cake to tempt you:
Have a great yarny day and knitterly evening you alls!
Yet Another FO
Well it has been done knitting wise for a week but I never showed it off having not sewn a fine seam. Don’t know how fine of a fine seam this is but its waaaaaaay better than it was before. Originally I had crocheted the seam using the yarn from sweater and it was too unyieldy. Well just too pull uppity in general so I waited for yarn from company to use in sewing up. Haven’t received any yet so decided we had crossed our wires and I better use what I had told them I was gonna ;^> Here’s a nice sweater detail:
I like the way the cuff has the point. That’s the side view and you can see my bloopity knitting and not great seam. All in the interests of full disclosure.
Zoe is sickity– running a fever and having persistent and violent fits of coughing. She has been sick since late Sunday night. Nece is starting to act as if she too will be sick. I am getting sniffly. Good think I have been RAOK-ed with Adagio Tea certificate and a couple of e-cards. All are much appreciated while I try to slug through the days in my typical exhausted and fighting off sickies mode.
Have a great yarny day and knitterly evening you alls
Oopsie Daisy
Sigh I said I would explain the I am one foot in grave feeling I have been having lately and almost forgot to post. Your wishing I had kept on forgetting aren’t you? Anyway when I started knitting many many moons ago a LYS refused to sell me yarns for certain projects. Not cause they were too hard but cause I would be bored. The first sweater-striped with intarsia bits- led to a cabled thingie which led to a lace thingie which led to stranded colorwork. If I ever even mentioned plain st st or garter or seed st he would tsk tsk tsk and say No Elka you will be bored out of your mind I cannot sell you the yarn for that. It really confuses me how knitting teachers today can get away with the novelty yarn scarves for months on end but I do realize every person has their own pace.
Anyway, moving onward, when I did teach and do guild stuff or even talk to people on internet [ok I still do the last obviously] I came accross people who had been knitting a long long time who didn’t know how to do stuff. For example one gal was knitting her first pair of socks in 20 years and was confoozled about heel turning which I explained the logics of despite not being a sock knitter. Not that I think turning heels is easy or am mocking her in any way what so ever. Just I think that eventually we all reach a comfort level of what works for us and stick to it. The its ‘too hard’ or ‘oh I could never do that’ mentality. I am afraid I have reached that place and am feeling old cause of it. Why? The sweater I showed you last week is why. I knit it several times over and am very impressed by the designer’s cleverness but just could not for the life of me figure out what was going on. Lets do a photo-essay:
this is the triangle we start with. We actually knit two mirror imaged triangles. Of course I have knit triangles before. In vests and such you sometimes come accross the little pointy bits at front and pardon me doesn’t the lazy side end up near the button band//center front? Of course it does cause you want the points closer to center front than to hips. And that is exactly what I did. Which was wrong. Now the designer did say right vs left but really is that right as worn or right as looked at? I never know. Lets move on….
Here are my two triangles joined and worked a few rows. Behind we have the finished back. Can you imagine my no freaking way is this wide piece of knitting gonna end up half of a 40″ sweater. Its humongous. yah I have never knit a chevron type of sweater before. Learn something new everyday. But I was sure something was wrong. I’ve already discussed the waist shaping snafu and yes I was wrong wrong wrong again but look at this:
I was to knit to 13.5″ and, as you can see, I went above that. I also used a wide measuring yard stick instead of a tape measure cause there is a difference in length depending on where you measure. Can you see that in the picture? No… Well here is the center line measured at the same time:
Surely something had to be wrong. It wasn’t. I ripped out and reknit anyway. OK I planned on showing the finished sweater but I need to seam it together and I think Gina is sending me some coordinating hand-dyed in a lighter weight. Til then walk round in the knowledge that I am a fuddy duddly knitter.