Author: denisemor

Swatched!

I finished knitting argyle sock #1 on Friday,

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and gave myself permission to swatch for The Green Sweater project

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The swatch is in “Spot Stitch”, which is kind of a variation on seed stitch, and it looks like my gauge is pretty close, so I shouldn’t have to do any pattern modifying. That’s cool because I really want to just cast on and get started! I still have one more sock to finish up, so I got the heel underway today.

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(I’m a one-project-at-a-time kind of knitter)

Not much other news, but the sheep and chickens say “hey”- everything seems pretty copacetic out in the shed right now. Esther is generally acknowledged to be in charge, and Dottie seems ok with that (as long as there are enough treats and scritches to go around). So glad they worked it out amongst themselves.

And I wanted to just throw in a note about the chickens- I’m really pleased that both girls who were wearing the little jackets have healed up and regrown their feathers! So no chickens in khakis anymore, and the jackets are washed up and standing by in case we need them again in the future.

Itchin’ to Swatch

I have finally settled on a pattern for my green sweater. 🙂

Dry Creek, by Stephanie Tallent

So pleased to have finally have it decided.
Design searching and surfing on Ravelry is fun, but I was starting to suffer from pattern fatigue.

So now I get to swatch! Yes, I actually like to swatch.
And it’s been a while since I’ve done any cabling so it will be a nice change.

Argyle socks are coming along –almost to the toe of sock #1.

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Also so excited that I’m booked to take my first ever knitting cruise- on the Schooner Zodiak out of Bellingham in August.

We’ll be cruising around the San Juan Islands for 3 days and 2 nights, knitting and hangin’ loose with Franklin Habit of Fridays With Franklin and The Panopticon

I’ve been a fan and a Fibertarian ever since I met Dolores Van Hoofen

http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/2006/11/dolorocrats.html
http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-fellow-americans.html

Maybe he can convince her to run again in 2020. 🙂

Fresh Start with Clean Bobbins

I usually try to start the new year with clean bobbins- but I’m running a little late!

Thankfully, having MLK day off helped me to get back on track.
I managed to get two more skeins of Prefect Green plied and wound off,

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and then plied the odds and ends left on my various bobbins to make another smallish mixed skein (not quite as random as some years, as I’ve been focusing mostly on the green of late).

But it’s nice to have all these bobbins standing by all primed for their next project!

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Still not exactly sure what pattern I will be using for the Perfect Green project.
A while back, I think I had settled on Bronwyn, but now I’m not sure I want to do a full sweater.
I like the versatility of vests.

So I’m still officially looking around.

Tarte Tatin is lovely, but I think it might be more flattering to carry the cabling and traveling stitch patters all the way up the front rather than doing the chest area in stockinette.

But I really don’t want to have to redesign something. I just want to find a pattern I can cast on and get right into.
I really love Vika, but do I even have enough green to spin 1500 yds of this particular blend?

Geez. Perhaps there is such a thing as having too many options.

Anyway, I’m not ready to start knitting my greens yet. There is time to figure it all out.

And I have the argyle panels done for my socks, but haven’t been quite ready to settle in for a long session of weaving in ends, so they are “paused” right at the moment.

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I am tempted to start an “in the meantime” project….

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because I already have the pattern, and think that I have a suitable yarn hanging out in the stash.
Might be just the thing to satisfy these twitchy fingers.

We Interrupt this Wool Blog

for a short dalliance with some cotton fabric (and batting).
🙂

Some of my knitting friends kept singing the praises of these little “bowlie” things- to hold bowls full of hot soup, stew, etc.
And the pattern seemed pretty simple, so I thought I’d give it a go.
(I still have lots of cotton fabric on hand from my quilting phase- it’s hard to let go of that kind of stuff!)

So I went back to my fabric bin, and found some coordinating bits.

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After cutting out the squares of fabric and batting, I got down to business with the sewing machine

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They came together pretty quickly-

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Sewing is so fast (compared to knitting)!

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They should be really nice for the containers I take my lunch to work in

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Yay! Let’s hear it for the long-dormant quilting fabric stash!

Ok, now back to our regular programming.

Argyle progress continues apace

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And I’m getting a lot better at this right-handed knitting thing!
Kind of a nice tool to have in your back pocket when you aren’t in a purling kind of mood 🙂