What have I accomplished in the past two weeks toward my festival wear you ask? Well...Plenty! End of Week 16 found Ursa's backside off the needles and the two fronts half done. I'm doing the fronts at the same time so that they'll be the same size. (Uniformity is the ticket!) This pattern is fast, fast, fast, and super duper easy. 'Cept of course when you get to the instructions that tell you to reverse the shaping of the Left Front to make the Right Front. Clear as a mudslide, I tell ya. After some visualizing and decision making on how I want to even do the decreases (as that is also totally up to you, the knitter), I was good to go. Love the fabric the yarn is making. Soft, drapey, but with just enough body to hold its shape. Yum-my! Oh, and a shout out goes to The Yarn and Fiber Co for having 4 skeins of my last year's dyelot in stock for the Berroco UltraAlpaca Light. I won't have to do any creative matching of the yarns.Who-hoo!
End of Week 15 found two wips in my basket pulled out, cast-off, and ends woven. I have a large basket filled with "So freakin' close to FO" wips that I felt guilty. Guilt, as well as needing the size 6 needles for a New Project, is a wonderful motivator. Now I just need to find a motivator to block all those new FO's accumulating in another basket. Sigh.
I was "Sleepless in Surfside" yesterday at 5am and not in the mood to knit on Ursa. STR's Deck the Halls (possibly misnamed, unless they weren't thinking of Christmas, but some other decorated halls) was lying in wait to grab me, already balled and on the coffee table. Who could resist the bright magenta/orange/purples??? I cast on for my New Project, Rockin' Bandit, otherwise known as Springtime Bandit. I blew through the entire Set-Up chart, found a pattern errata (details on my Raverly page - you'd only find it if you're into counting your end stitches each row - not a crucial problem), notified the designer, and kept on knitting. I've finished all the Body Chart, discovered that I seem to still have a lot of yarn, and decided to knit at least one more repeat set of 12 rows. I want to use as much of the yarn as I can, while still being able to finish the Edging Chart. I've never knit with Blue Moon's Socks That Rock until now. It's a sproingy yarn that showcases the stitches in their very best light. Thanks Misa for this gift from NYSW '08! You'll see it on me at Rhinebeck.
I've been drudging along on a pair of plain vanilla toe-up socks for the last couple months. I finished sock #1 three weeks ago, but only got motivated last week to start sock #2. I'm half done on it. It was supposed to be done for July 4th, so I could take a picture of me in them for you all to chuckle at. (They are Fortissima Color 1776 Stars & Stripes and practically knee highs. This yarn is like the Energizer Bunny. 450yds makes a big a** sock!) You'll have to wait a bit longer for the hilarity of wool socks with shorts at the beach in summer.
I was mojo-less all spring on the knitting front, but with the plans gelling on the NYC trip, I found the mojo lying in wait all along. I'm still mojo-less for camera shots. Look for photos on Ravelry later.
2 comments:
My Oh My! My sister has been busy as a bee! I tell ya, knowing you are coming up to NYC in October got my mojo going to after I finished up that shawl. I'm in the process of frogging that one sweater and haven't casted on for the projects we discussed, but soon. Can not wait to see you!!!!
I'm knitting with the STR that I bought at Rhinebeck too! I'm using it for my purl-free Monkeys and am finding that the medium weight it a bit thicker than I like. I'm sure it will be great as a scarf. Rhinebeck, yeeehaaaw!
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