The Woolen Rabbit
The Woolen Rabbit has a great post on knitting and perfection.
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October 29, 2005
October 23, 2005
yarn sign
Check out this cool yarn sign by DH. It's foam!
cable hat
side view
cable hat
Here's the progress on the cashmere cable hat, patt from Rebecca 30.
I'm using the specified ggh cashmere yarn in color no. 5.
October 20, 2005
cable hat
Rebecca 30 patt no. 17.
Same pattern as the soy hat but this time in cashmere by ggh. Yum!
October 17, 2005
soy hat
Ignore frustrations in previous post. I can't believe how much I enjoy knitting with dpns! Once I got a few rows finished, I started to get a rhythm down, knitting quickly. However, my technique needs some work (that's a cable you see in the picture on the right!).
October 15, 2005
soy hat
Another weekend afternoon at a LYS, learning to knit a cable hat from a Rebecca pattern. This is the first time I�'ve used double pointed needles and I have to say it�'s not so easy. Can I do the same pattern using circulars?
I was sitting at the table with other knitters trying to balance the four dpns, occasionally grabbing a jellybean or two from the bowl in the center of the table, when four stitches fell off the end of one of the needles. Who invented double pointed needles and why? I pushed forward and continued to knit ribs and cables in the charcoal colored soy yarn. A fellow knitter said that if it didn�'t work out I could eat it. Not so crazy an idea because a carton of silk soymilk is a staple in my refrigerator.
October 13, 2005
All this rain
All this rain and nothing (happily) to do but knit. I finished the navy blue scarf!
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October 11, 2005
cable scarf navy blue
WIP - cable scarf in Aurora 8.
October 05, 2005
cable scarf
Here is the cable scarf from Rebecca.
The navy blue is dark and a bit hard on the eyes to knit, so I may switch back to a lighter color after a couple of rows. Cables are classic.
October 01, 2005
I went to a knitting
I went to a knitting store a few towns over to get help with a Rebecca knitting pattern. It was a cabled scarf, but after spending hours on Friday trying to decipher it and ripping out test runs, I knew I needed help. After an hour I had a good start on the scarf. (The problem was that you CO 46 sts, but after the first WS row you ended up with 50 sts. After writing it out and correctly reading the chart it was easy to understand.) Iâ..m knitting it in white Karabella. Sitting at the large round table on the second floor knitting store, knitting, watching people coming and going, others sitting around the table working on various projects turned out to be a great early Saturday afternoon.
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