My DH has my camera, therefore this is a picture-less post for now. The CPH 2 just needs a zipper inserted & the sleeves seamed. It's having some raveling issues that set it on the back burner for a little think. The Berroco Comfort yarn does not like to stay woven in on a loosely knit sweater. No matter how vigorously I approached the seaming process...weaving in the ends far & wide with lots of back knotting along the way....those dratted ends still work their way out at the seams. No matter that I haven't even worn the dad-burned thing yet! Perturbing. But I have figured out how to solve the issue at hand. A Hong Kong seam finish. My sewing experience will pay off here. I will find a lovely silk fabric to make bias strips with & encase all the pesky ends into their respective seams & then they will behave. Ha! I out smart my knitting again. Besides, it'll look pretty to boot.
I whipped up a Birthday Cowl a-la Kim style. It is knitted on the bias. Just what do you suppose happens to lovely suri-merino knitted on the bias? Uh huh. I'll just let your mind imagine all the horrible possibilities here while I wait for my camera to return so I can put on the thing & take a photo to show you. Let's just say I could almost wear it as a mobius shawl if I had made it into a mobius strip to start with.
What is a knit project that makes me happy at the moment you might ask? Well my Clapotis of course. I need to knit up one more ball of yarn on it & it is complete. I am also using Berroco Comfort (started prior to the aforementioned ends problem), but since it is being knitted up firmly, it is not displaying that nasty quirk. I know because having to unravel the dropped stitch rows would have made it happen by now (lots of tugging going on at that point!) Clappy is so large & soft & warm. Ahhhhh. Feel the Comfort here. My youngest cat, Kitty, likes it bunches too. She grabbed the end of ball #2 & ran all the way through the house with it this morning. I had to rescue the yarn from her vise grip. She didn't get why I went storming after her at 6:30 this morning like a crazy woman. Not normal behavior for her mommy at that hour for sure! All's well though & I am impatient for the finished product now.
I've also been knitting on a Hired to Make project. I'll do another post on that another day.
Keep those Rhinebeck recap posts coming people. I am living vicariously through them I tell ya.
2 comments:
A brilliant solution! You show those pesky popping out ends who is boss. Sorry your Birthday cowl turned out to be not so cowl-y and wonderful. Clapotis is such an awesome pattern. No wonder it's so popular. Next year you play Count the Clappys at Rhinebeck.
Why praytell does hubby have your good camera? I want pictures! :-) Glad you are knitting along nicely with everything. You are such a solution genious. Guess that's why I pick your brain all the time when a knitting issue comes up. So glad you are family. Muah. Missed you this weekend but you will be with us next year smelling those Rhinebeck Yarn Fumes!
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