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March 26, 2006

Hourglass

i highly recommend malabrigo yarn. i really like manos de uraguay and malabrigo is from the great nation of uraguay, also from a coop, and about 800 times softer. i bought a skein of grass green (called saphire green-- the one p is not a typo) and i was like holy wow! so then i bought 4 more. i started making an hour glass sweater this weekend with the one skein, and i got pretty far.. from the bottom up ten inches in a round.. not too shabby at all! i dont really like the design that comes out from the changes in the color, but oh well. stockinette sure is fast though! when i ran out of yarn, i used another green i have (why, from my sister even!), and using the crochet steeking technique (minus the cutting) i stitched on a stegosaurus. gotta love plant eaters!

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Knitting In Reverse

let's take a moment to acknowledge my sister. i really havent emphasized that she is my sugardaddy when it comes to wools and needles and books and patterns and pretty much anything pertaining to knitting. way to be related to someone with an overflowing stash! i guess im not very good about saying where my yarn is from and all, but lots of times everything is from her. if any advertisers are reading this, consider sending her a banner so she can make some more money to buy more yarn to increase her likelihood to send it to me! :D

anyways, the aforementioned sister sent me a book in my last yarn shipment, handknit holidays. this book has some nice stuff, but l a lot of it makes me feel like its only a couple steps from knitting wallpaper. i have made things though! i made the elf hat in a dark olive green so my boyfriend could feel like link from zelda. i also started the stained-glass scarf, which was really cool sounding because its was reversible. after pride and prejudice and some law and order episodes, i finally understood the concepts the directions tried so hard to explain, and away i went! you would think after so many hours of trying my damnedest to make this thing look decent, i would really be into making it. well, i have a lot of animosity towards scarves, and this is like doing two at once. so like, double that animosity, add plane travel time, and ive made a whopping 12 inches in between airplane naps and sitting around in the last month. i mean, also there was that argyle vest and all, but thats really unimportant because i hate scarves. also, this one looks just like a stack of andes mints, which i also dont like. someday, i'll finish it though!

so while that was insanely boring, i still liked the idea of a reversible scarf. maybe just the reversible part. and i liked the argle vest, because i was always paying attention to the pattern, which was good. so i said, i will make reversbile argyle scarf! and after some more frustrating hours, i was successfully able to make a reversible argyle pattern. my problem was that i kept trying to make each side look like knitted v's, which i guess isnt allowed in reversible world. i think for this project, it worked out okay because my colors are pretty similar, so its just an added way to differentiate the pink and the tan. that's only 8 inches long, but it has a much higher chance of being completed than that other atrocity of a scarf. speaking of which, i will probably have to start putting rings around my neck to be a little bit more giraffe-like because that thing is so thick that it probably won't fold very nicely. pleh.

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March 13, 2006

Whoot!

so, tonight i could no longer swallow any more of the math i didn't do over break, and i took a knit break. i really think "obsess" would be a great way to describe the need to finish this vest and make it right (dammit). i made the arm band tighter (again) and ran out of yarn, so i bound off with white.. i guess its ok. here's a pic half-way through:

the little pink spot (its a marker) indicates the tightened cuff.

and here, 1.5 law and order episodes later, is the finished product!

the front is still puffy, but maybe this sweater vest just has character. unlike eunny, i didnt match at all in my model outfit.. but heck, just picture me on a golf course.. doing the carlton dance.

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Knitting Break

instead of going somewhere exotic where clothing isnt entirely necessary for spring break, i went home. and instead of staying out at the bar all night and drinking myself silly (which i must say is a good time), i stayed up all night, many nights and did what? oh yes. i knitted. sometimes i only slept for three hours because knitting was so incredibly imperative for my very existence. my first project was a dog sweater, pictured here sans a model, so i dont really know if it fits. i did that monday. i had a hard time taking a picture that shows the colors well, but whatever. for that, i mostly followed the pattern from stitch n' bitch nation, but i kept the entire thing on a round instead of opting to sew a seam up the middle.

then! after i finished the dog sweater and did some spring break shopping (yay) the yarn i was anxiously awaiting from knit picks came (3 skeins of cream palette), and i was off and running on the argyle vest! this post would really be interesting, but instead its not because i decided i didnt need to take any pictures of people or places over break, so i didnt bring my camera. bad move! but anyways, i really thoguht this would take all of 2 days to do. thats not true! for everyone following in eunny's footsteps, this takes a long time!!! i really thought i was done on friday, but the entire top was hugely large, so i redid the edge ribs, and blocked the top flat because those steeks sure make the entire thing quite thick, and now the top is just like kinda loose. so i think i will redo the arm hole ribs tighter because the arm holes are kind of gapingly large, and i think thats what screws up the fit. i'll post a pic of me in it once i feel like it fits evenly, cause now thats not the case. although it is pretty! also, i ran out of green yarn, so the arm ribs are short, so i think i will buy more yarn *and* make the rib tighter. my goodness. this is the never ending project. and i get so impatient to finish a project once i get started, which is why i knit through the night, and this time i am continually redoing things. posh.

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