The knitting has really slowed down in the past 6 weeks. The weather has made it difficult to work with any hairy, woolly fibres. (I would like to point out that hot days is one of the hardest thing that I have had to get used to in Europe. In NYC, even the subways had AC, in cities like Paris and France, there are maybe 15-20 hot days a year and no AC... imagine shopping in an un air conditioned department store in the height of summer... does anyone want to try any of the clothes on even when it's 50% off... I didn' think so).
While, I have manage to do some knitting, I still haven't finished things like my Rowanette Exchange thingy. For what appears to be a very simple design to knit, I haven't been able to build up much rythm on this design.
Here are the feather-y bits. I keep teling myself that it will be gorgeous after blocking.. because right now, it's not gorgeous...not even pretty.
I'm making very slow progress on this shawl. With a rough calculation, I think I have about 16,000 more stitches to go. I often forget how long it takes to do a row once you get to over 350 stitches per row. This is my priority project.
Then there is daydream, which has turned into a bit of a nightmare. Converting a pattern from hem up to top down isn't that difficult, but the scallop-y hem was not so easy to achieve coming from the the top down.
After several goes, I just couldn't get it to scallop and I had a nasty ruching effect, so I decided to go with a knitted on lace border. I tried several of those, and thought this one was probably best.
because it echoed a bit the eyelet band that I did. It's different from the original daydream because I didn't have the daydream pattern with me at the time and I thought that this was how it was worked.
So just about 60 more pattern repeats and the border will be done... then there are the sleeves and the button bands, so I reckon July is going to be a VERY good months for FO's... well, it's going to be a very pink month anyway.
Posted by atu at July 9, 2006 12:00 PM | TrackBackDaydream looks adorable! Gosh, I'm not a fan of air con but I can't imagine life without it!
Posted by: Peggy at July 12, 2006 07:55 PMhey
Daydream is wonderful I love what you did with the lace border. I would SO appreciate the top down instructions, that is the only way I'd brave it. Did you keep track of how you did this? May I?
Posted by: kathy b at July 9, 2006 10:05 PMIsn't that funny... I never realized that there isn't air conditioning in the stores. I'm always surprised by the little cultural differences :-) I love the pink knitting. The little sweater is too sweet.
Posted by: Charity at July 9, 2006 05:16 PMI hope it cools down a bit - am coming home next week for a visit! Hope to see you at Libertys one evening.
Lovely knits - I am sure the shawl will be just gorgeous when blocked.
It's looking lovely, and I don't think it matters that it doesn't looked scalloped. Your exchange is coming on well too, bet you didn't think you could get this far!