Since the first try went through....
Jan. 15th, 2003 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinI'll actually do a real update.
Not much on the knitting front--still stalled on both pairs of socks, though I brought my brown Turkish socks with me today. Seems like work today will be sitting around waiting for it to snow. Blech.
The aran textured afghan is moving along; I'm about 20 rows away from doing the edging, now. 500 sts may fit on a 24" circluar needle, 560 will not. It's on 2 circulars, and I stop three times each round to push sts from one to the other. The price of art, I guess. I'm at about 600 sts around; the rounds are much slower now, because of the distance and the intricacy. But what's done looks really cool. I graphed out the edging pattern this weekend. Let's see if I can describe it--the edging will be done in short rows, that travel around the circumference. It's pretty wide, over 50 sts (trying to make up extra size in the edging, since I lack enough #8 circular needles to get the size in the body of the afghan), and will have 4 cables, then the usual garter sts section. So, that part will take some time--2 rows per sts on the afghan, so I'm looking at 1400 rows for the edging. I'm aiming for lap-robe size in the end, a little over 4' across.
Spring is coming--I got 3 plant catalogs in the mail yesterday. Richter's, whom I've not been happy with in years past, has enough new kinds of mint I may have to order from them again. And a rose-scented thyme--temptations abound.
Not much on the knitting front--still stalled on both pairs of socks, though I brought my brown Turkish socks with me today. Seems like work today will be sitting around waiting for it to snow. Blech.
The aran textured afghan is moving along; I'm about 20 rows away from doing the edging, now. 500 sts may fit on a 24" circluar needle, 560 will not. It's on 2 circulars, and I stop three times each round to push sts from one to the other. The price of art, I guess. I'm at about 600 sts around; the rounds are much slower now, because of the distance and the intricacy. But what's done looks really cool. I graphed out the edging pattern this weekend. Let's see if I can describe it--the edging will be done in short rows, that travel around the circumference. It's pretty wide, over 50 sts (trying to make up extra size in the edging, since I lack enough #8 circular needles to get the size in the body of the afghan), and will have 4 cables, then the usual garter sts section. So, that part will take some time--2 rows per sts on the afghan, so I'm looking at 1400 rows for the edging. I'm aiming for lap-robe size in the end, a little over 4' across.
Spring is coming--I got 3 plant catalogs in the mail yesterday. Richter's, whom I've not been happy with in years past, has enough new kinds of mint I may have to order from them again. And a rose-scented thyme--temptations abound.
