October 10, 2003

I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams

Well, thought that I would finally trot out all the recent WIPs that travelled with me to South Africa. It's appalling how little progress was made. I blame it on the millipedes myself. (They must have been unravelling my knitting while I was asleep).

Fleur


One sleeve to go


Just another sleeve to go. It's going to need a pretty firm hand to block it to shape. The Rowan Wool Cotton is a superb yarn. It's got a lovely handle and is wonderfully soft. It practically knits itself! I just wish that it would knit itself a little faster. The shoulders have been short-rowed shaped and bound off using 3 needle bind-off. I know I should had blocked it first, but I was short a stitch holder.

Frilled Sleeve Cardigan


Ready to divide and conquer


This is really mindless knitting. Long stretches of stocking stitch. I'm up to the armholes and ready to divide. The Debbie Bliss wool cotton is a lovely yarn. I just wished that I didn't have so many knots in it. I was trying hard to only join at the seams of the garment, but it's infuriating to knit 160 stitches and then find you have 12 stitches to go to finish the row and about 2 inches of yarn left I suppose it's the luck of the draw.. but why so little luck with this batch? I'm 2 balls in and both balls had 2 knots in it.

Gull-wing Socks


slow and steady


This is fun and easy lace pattern. It's just hard to make much progress when you're knitting on 2mm needles. I love the Lang Jawoll Cotton blend. It's soft but firm enough for me to build up a rhythm.

I'm going to focus on one of these so that I have something to show after the weekend. Daisy is calling me .. well, Lis's knit-along has started and embarassingly, Kristine is nearly done, and I haven't even started my swatch yet...well, at least I have 15 years to catch-up.

Posted by atu at October 10, 2003 08:10 PM
Comments

I had the same experience with the Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino. The first two skeins out of 8 that I had seemed to be full of knots. The remaining 6 were fine. I almost bailed out on the project because the yarn was making me crazy (it was for a baby blanket with many many stitches across... I didn't want to have ends in the middle). Seems like whomever makes her yarn has some quality control issues.

Are the gull wing socks your pattern or a commercial design? If it is yours, would you be willing to tell me where I could find that lace stitch? It's lovely!

Posted by: Theresa at October 11, 2003 07:17 PM

Puhlease show me your Wool Cotton after you've blocked it. I'm curious how much it'll change shape.

Posted by: Ann at October 11, 2003 03:41 AM