Yay!!! the sun's out!!!

[treeskin]

The sun on mostly-cleared pavement is doing as much good towards snow removal as we were on the brooms, so we're taking it easy now. It's been a long week.

The UnSock Report: Was drop-dead tired last night after work, so I went home and consoled myself with a new project....the "More Than Circular" shawl from Best of Knitter's Shawls and Wraps. More than circular, because the finished shawl ends up being about 480 degrees--enough extra fabric to fold and make it drape and hug the shoulders. The pattern is more or less an old doily pattern, with a couple extra pattern repeats, and yarn rather than thread. I'm tucking into that cone of grey 2-ply wool again, this will be the fourth shawl from it. (Gotta block the other three one of these days....) Starts out on #5's, then 6's after 20-odd rounds (which is were I'm at now), 8's after 40-some rounds, and later moved up to 10's, then 11's. The increasing gauge is part of what makes the extra width. It's a nice simple charted pattern (I heard that, classics_cat), and restful on tired achy hands.

I know I've still got a pair of sweaters on the needles, but neither are restful. I lack the attention span at the moment to handle the colorwork on The Sweater, and my hands are too tired to hold onto the moose needles for the Lopi sweater. Hence, a new restful knitting project, which was necessary because I'd left the super-easy socks I'd started in the drawer at work.

The Sock Report is a short list of UFO's. I'd started a simple sock in the Magic Stripes yarn the MIL gave me for Xmas; I'm turning the heel on the first one. Slow progress on that project, since I've been doing it mainly at work, and we've been doing snow s**t for a while now. I'd also started, way back in January, a pair of cabled socks in the orange alpaca, which I've ripped out and restarted a couple of times now. Jut can't get a gauge I like on that pattern. Contemplating switching to a pattern I know better, and can add cables to, or switching to the fingerless gloves that were on Knitty last year. Decisions, decisions.

Mostly, I've been working on non-knitting projects lately. Got a stack of the cd books finished, and more that I need to get the pages ready for. The glued-up covers for a pair of stab-bound books are done, and pressed, and ready for me to decide how I want to stitch them (these are some of the ones I'd done the calligraphy for long long ago). And I've got my hands on new paper lately, so I've been playing with it to see how various media work on it. Colored pencil + nearly transparent vellum = kick-butt stained glass look. Will try to get some pics up this weekend.

I've also been playing with a template I found on a website about sacred geometry. Can't remember the link, and I'm at work, so I don't have the bookmark, but it's basicly a pattern of interlocking circles that form a cell-like structure. It's fairly easy to generate, just need a ruler and a good circle template, and then you have a fun matrix to play with--different color series, you can emphasize or erase various lines....lots of potential. Again, will try to get pics up.


And, just for the record...I've worked hard enough this week, and I don't plan on working any more today.

Comments

[mizzadamz.livejournal.com]

you put my pitiful little bunny rabbits to shame.
I only started knitting last summer but the amount of projects you ahve going at once amazes me.

Big thumbs up

Sacred Geometry

[hisanguisette.livejournal.com]

There is a site that may be useful. It is a collection of sacred patterns of "dreamcatchers". Basically the same idea of a circle template and placing the yarn in a matrix. I will dig it up. It is on one of my Indians of Native America research thingies. Glad it finally is sunny out.

P.S. I'll take that shawl when you are done ::winks::

~Anguisette~

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[treeskin.livejournal.com]

I'm a yarn junkie, and was before I started knitting. It's my current string obsession. (I also crochet, tat, embroider, weave a little...)

And, I don't have kids, I can't just "sit" and watch TV, I have to have something in my hands. Ditto for riding in the car. That leaves a lot of time for knitting, etc.

So, I have brain-dead projects for in-the-car and take-to-work (usually socks), one or two challenging projects that are long-term things (The Sweater, and the bird's eye lace I keep by the computer), and a few in between, because I just can't resist.

Did I mention I'm a yarn junkie?

And, every time I finish something, I reward myself by starting something new. Sometimes, like last night, I just need the little excitement that comes from diving in to something new.

Re: Sacred Geometry

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

*nods* Made dreamcatchers before. The style I was taught was generally a bit more random than what I'm doing on paper now...this is more of a tile-work, covers the whole page. But I'd certainly like to see that site.

Don't hold your breath on the shawl...I don't finish them that fast!

Re: Sacred Geometry

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

yep... she still has stuff pending from the last time i visited.

Re: Sacred Geometry

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

Mrph. I'll have you know some of that has been delivered since you were here.

No respect, I tell ya. See if you get turkish socks for Yule this year....