2008-03-15

 

No, I'm not going to talk about work. On the incredibly teeny chance that's why you bother to slog through my rare posts about knitting, go ahead and unsub now.
Now that that's out of the way, I'm back on my 80% finished Bombshell sweater. Why oh why did I ever put it down? The color is beautiful, and Cash Iroha is buttery and wonderful to work with. I'm sure the sleeves will still annoy me when I slog through them, though.

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posted by bethanye 1:04:00 PM   

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2007-11-29

 

Dammit dammit dammit.

I have messed up the heel on this first space invader's sock freaking again. Dammit. I have to rip back and start over freaking again. Ugh.

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posted by bethanye 8:41:00 PM   

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2007-11-21

 

New haul of fancy string today. To mitigate the growing stash, I picked out some yarn to send to Sarah today. Mostly lovely things I just don't think I'll ever use or remnants from socks I've made in the past. Because she's making things for her kids, hopefully they can be of some use to her. I also added in a tshirt that I bought her awhile ago.

But onto the new yarns. I got some Louet Fingering Weight for the bmp socks. I'm going to use my new Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Irving Park to make Pomatomus socks, and the Miss Priss will become a Mr. Greenjeans. Busy busy busy. General Bonkers would be horrified.

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posted by bethanye 6:20:00 PM   

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2007-11-09

 

This week... finally over. Whew. It's been a roller coaster, and I'm wiped out.
I'm about 75% through the orange gloves, and then I think I'll probably pick up the arm warmers again. I ordered way too much from Blue Moon on Monday, but that Raven group is just... wonderful. I love it so much. So I got a few skeins of lightweight, plus enough heavyweight to make a fitted sweater. Couldn't help myself.

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posted by bethanye 8:03:00 PM   

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2007-11-05

 

Uh-oh. I am in love. Maybe too much love. Blue Moon's Raven colorways are out.

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2007-10-24

 

Determined. I'm determined to finish ONE pair of socks for Socktober. Just one pair. Will I make it?

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posted by bethanye 6:16:00 PM   

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2007-10-14

 

Toe-up sock two-needle cast-on tutorial. I always do my toe-up socks with the same tried-and-true cast-on, which I adapted from a doubleknit cast-on from Principles of Knitting. Over the years, I've showed a few people how to do this at the Mel-O-Dee, but it's fiddly. It's hard to show. Been meaning to document it for awhile. You need to understand a traditional long-tail cast-on to use this method.

1. First, wrap the yarn around a DPN or circular needle as shown, or make a slipknot if you must.
2. Place another DPN or circular needle beside the first one, between the tail and leading yarn, with the tail facing you.
3. Begin a traditional long-tail cast-on putting BOTH needles through the thumb (tail yarn) loop. (Sorry about the crappy pictures here.)
4. Using only the farther needle (the one that has the initial loop/slipknot, and also the needle that has the loop leading to the yarn ball), pick up the loop on your forefinger as you would for a long-tail cast-on. (Yeah, another crappy picture.)
5. Using just only the closer needle (the one that leads to the tail yarn), pick up the yarn loop from your thumb.
6. Gently snug up the stitches.
7. When you have cast on sufficient stitches, begin knitting by working the stitches on the needle that came from the ball (not the tail) first. This makes for a neater look than starting with the tail stitches.
8. The last stitch will be fiddly. Be careful to knit into the stitch from left-to-right, front-to-back just like a normal non-fiddly knit stitch, and you won't get a hole.

There's a little movie of the cast-on HERE, as well.

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posted by bethanye 4:34:00 PM   

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oh! I like the looks of that. I find the video to be extra helpfull too..

# posted by  abmatic : 10/14/2007 6:50 PM

 

I don't know why but in the movie, it looks like you're leaning Stevie's chest

# posted by  Debbie : 10/15/2007 3:24 PM

 

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2007-02-25

 

Karrie's right. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, from a "people watching" standpoint. Perhaps I jinxed that, but on the other hand I won of the knitting train grand prize bags. Heh.

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posted by bethanye 12:08:00 PM   

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Fo shizzle. Not a sweater my sister would like in sight.

Even the VIP Fibers booth seemed tame this year.

# posted by  Debbie : 2/26/2007 2:22 PM

 

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2007-02-23

 

Tomorrow, I'll be taking the Knitting Train down to Stitches West. There, I expect I will buy many luxurious fibers that will go into the stash while openly mocking some of the fun fur monstrosities sported by other attendees. Then we will have drinks. And hopefully, not end up on the website again.

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posted by bethanye 1:04:00 PM   

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way to jinx us b.

# posted by  kweaver : 2/25/2007 1:33 AM

 

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