Going for Gold.
22 Feb 2010 2 Comments
It may not be Vancouver, but it feels pretty good to me.
The Pattern: Climbing Vines from Interweave Knits
The Needles: US 4′s, 6′s and 7′s
The Yarn: Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran in #147, Teal, ~950 yards
The Verdict: I loved knitting this sweater and stayed up way too late last night seaming it to see how it was going to fit. I admit that I’m a little unsure of the fit in the upper bust and arms. The neckline is very wide, and I feel like the bust area is a little large even though I knit a size smaller than I normally do. I nailed the body length though, and while I went a little long on the sleeves I love them cuffed too. I promise more glamour shots after I give it a good wearing this week! For now… gold feels good!
Progress Report
19 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in A Picture's Worth 1000 Words, Knitting Content Ahead
I left you all last week with a post about the Olympics, and what I planned to knit. I just thought I’d give you a bit of a progress report.
One Back: Check
Two Sleeves: Check
Front: Well I’ll give you a little peek here…
I may even finish this weekend!
Octo-Thousandarian
18 Feb 2010 1 Comment
in A Picture's Worth 1000 Words
Here’s to a new millennium.
Citius, Altius Fortius
11 Feb 2010 2 Comments
in Knitting Content Ahead, The Boob Tube
The 2010 Winter Olympics begin tomorrow in Vancouver and I’m super excited. Not only am I an avid watcher of the Olympics, I participate in my own way.
Back in 2006, the Yarn Harlot challenged knitters across the world to undertake their own Olympic challenge, to tack a challenging project from start to finish within the 2 week time frame that the Olympics run. The rules were simple: Pick a project that will challenge you, but isn’t impossible to complete. Cast on during the opening ceremonies, cast off by the closing ceremonies. Push yourself and earn your own gold medal.
In 2006, I was still a relatively unadventurous knitter. I decided that I would tackle my first felted purse. Imagine my surprise when I knit the whole thing in 2 days, and had it felted within another 2. So much for challenge, eh?
This year, I plan to tackle a sweater for me. I plan to knit the Climbing Vines Pullover as featured in Interweave Knits Winter 2008.
I will be knitting my sweater out of Queensland Kathmandu, a wonderful Aran weight mix of Merino, Silk and Cashmere, in my favorite color, Teal.
The torch is almost lit… and away we go!
Lucky
07 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in Off the Needles, Uncategorized
The past month I’ve been knitting like a fiend on a new shawl. Late last night I finally finished it and after a blocking session it was ready to go out in the snow today for a photo session!
The Pattern: Three-Cornered Shawl in Clover Pattern
The Needles: US 5′s
The Yarn: Wollmeise Lace-garn in Baristo
The Verdict: This shawl was a hard one to start as you begin at the outer edge by casting on 624 stitches. That makes for some very long rows at the beginning and a lot of feeling like you’re knitting forever and getting nowhere. About halfway through, though, thanks to the decrease rows you drop down to about 350 stitches across and from there on out it’s smooth sailing! The patterns are intuitive and easily memorized and I really enjoyed knitting this one. It came out huge – blocked it is about 9 feet across at wingspan and 4 feet tall at the mid-point. It will be the perfect shawl to wrap myself up in on cool evenings. And the colors are beautiful – teals and browns and blues. My favorites!
Blogiversary
05 Feb 2010 4 Comments
in A Picture's Worth 1000 Words, Family, Notes to Myself
Tomorrow marks 5 years since I started this “blog” thing. I can barely believe that it has been that long, but I have a cute little reminder. My nephew was born on February 1 five years ago. And look at him today:
Wes assured me that this voice changing Storm Trooper helmet would be the bees knees for a certain five-year-old.
Over the past year or two my posting has slowed down. Sometimes I feel like maybe I shouldn’t be blogging any more since most of my posts are related to knitting, and since Ravelry gives me a place to chronicle those. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve completely bored all (any?) of my readers to death.
But then sometimes I look back at old entries and find this really cool journal of my life over the last five years, and then I think that it doesn’t matter exactly when I post or what I post, but just that I do post.
In short, this isn’t an eloquent post but please accept my heartfelt thanks for hanging in there with me. Here’s to another great year!
