String for everyone!
Oct. 26th, 2004 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinAfter being a responsible adult and gardening on Sunday, I spent a blissful Monday with all three Jurassic Park movies and a pile of knitting. The world is good.
The Sock Report: I've been struggling to make myself finish the socks I've started lately, but I'm just SOOO bored with the basic socks in the self-striping yarns. The first two or three pair were fun, the fifth or sxith pairs....blech. So, to soothe the savage "need something new" beastie, I started Another New Project yesterday. By kindly climbed the pile in the sewing room to pull out some of my plain sock yarn (NyLamb, 70/30 wool/nylon, from Myrna)...four skeins baby lavender, two skeins an acceptable green. The lavender skeins are now, respectively, very dark moss green, dark blue, blue and moss green mottled, and purple, courtesy of my microwave and Wilton's icing dyes. (My hands are similarly colored. But it'll wear off.) I knitted the ribbed cuffs of both socks last night, and I'm (impatiently) for the dyed yarn to dry so I can dive in. I was going to link to the pic of the pattern, but it's in a back issue, and the Knitter's online gallery doesn't go back that far. Oh well. They're really cool socks...the legs are mitered rectangles in two colors, and longer mitered and shaped rectangles wrap around the foot. The leg is worked in two pieces that are joined (on one side) before the heel is worked, then the foot is worked, the whole thing joined up that seam, and then the toe worked. So, most of it's done on two little sock needles.
The UnSock Report: I've made lots and lots of progress on the shades of white modular kimono (took it with me to Dory's Sat night). I'm nearly finished with the body, then I'll have the second sleeve and some borders, then the seams.
Because I HAD to work on something new (PMSing again, what can I say?), and I had to wait for my sock yarn to dry (still waiting, as a matter of fact), I started a lace project with the leftover cone of wool singles and #5 needle. It's the Flower Basket shawl from the Fal 2004 Interweave Knits. It's not too tough, easy 10-row repeat, triangular shaping.
What I ought to be working on are the Tigger afghan, By's sweater (which is under things, and hard to get to), and the Origami kimono. I'll get there eventually.
The Sock Report: I've been struggling to make myself finish the socks I've started lately, but I'm just SOOO bored with the basic socks in the self-striping yarns. The first two or three pair were fun, the fifth or sxith pairs....blech. So, to soothe the savage "need something new" beastie, I started Another New Project yesterday. By kindly climbed the pile in the sewing room to pull out some of my plain sock yarn (NyLamb, 70/30 wool/nylon, from Myrna)...four skeins baby lavender, two skeins an acceptable green. The lavender skeins are now, respectively, very dark moss green, dark blue, blue and moss green mottled, and purple, courtesy of my microwave and Wilton's icing dyes. (My hands are similarly colored. But it'll wear off.) I knitted the ribbed cuffs of both socks last night, and I'm (impatiently) for the dyed yarn to dry so I can dive in. I was going to link to the pic of the pattern, but it's in a back issue, and the Knitter's online gallery doesn't go back that far. Oh well. They're really cool socks...the legs are mitered rectangles in two colors, and longer mitered and shaped rectangles wrap around the foot. The leg is worked in two pieces that are joined (on one side) before the heel is worked, then the foot is worked, the whole thing joined up that seam, and then the toe worked. So, most of it's done on two little sock needles.
The UnSock Report: I've made lots and lots of progress on the shades of white modular kimono (took it with me to Dory's Sat night). I'm nearly finished with the body, then I'll have the second sleeve and some borders, then the seams.
Because I HAD to work on something new (PMSing again, what can I say?), and I had to wait for my sock yarn to dry (still waiting, as a matter of fact), I started a lace project with the leftover cone of wool singles and #5 needle. It's the Flower Basket shawl from the Fal 2004 Interweave Knits. It's not too tough, easy 10-row repeat, triangular shaping.
What I ought to be working on are the Tigger afghan, By's sweater (which is under things, and hard to get to), and the Origami kimono. I'll get there eventually.
