Knitting

-13C – light snow

The Yarner February 7, 2010

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A perfectly lazy Sunday with buttermilk pancakes for breakfast and lots of knitting during the day. I finished the second gauntlet and started on the first glove.

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Picking up stitches for the edging

The Yarner February 2, 2010

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Picking up stitches for the edging
Originally uploaded by hianja

Did the lower edge and was a bit challenged by the [k1,yf, k1, yf, k1]-into-same-stitch bit. I hadn’t come across that stitch before and was puzzled as to which way the yarn should go around to come forward (I know, sounds silly). So I asked the google, and the google said that’s how bobbles were often made. So I asked the youtube to show me bobble making, and it did. Voila, lower edge is fine, and stitches for upper edge are picked up.

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bit of a lazy day

The Yarner January 30, 2010

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I signed up as a pattern tester for one of the knitting designers on Ravelry and am quite exited about my first project – a gloves and gauntlet combination in variegated and solid yarn. Now I’m digging thru my stash to match two skeins.

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Finished a pair of sox (finally)

The Yarner January 29, 2010

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Socks modeled
Originally uploaded by hianja

After trying to crochet socks and finding that doesn’t really work for me, I frogged them and knit them up again. They’re much nicer that way, though I still can’t remember what I was thinking when I bought that yarn.

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Relatively warm today, almost up to zero

The Yarner January 24, 2010

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I used the January thaw to get out the ladder and take down the Christmas garlands from the porch and carport. Some of the cables and a pair of wicker stars in the planters will have to wait, as they’re either buried under two feet of snow or frozen in a solid block of ice (or both).

The afternoon was delightfully spent figuring out the lace part of my Ishbel shawl with only brief excursions into the basement for a load of laundry and to lend the tiger an extra pair of hands for fitting the drywall sheets in the furnace room. Starting to look good down there.