Time for another edition of Knitapalooza…I finally got un-lazy enough to take a couple of pictures to share!
I had plenty of knitting time on the plane to Switzerland and Italy, so I took along a little lace scarf I’m working on. The pattern is Lace Ribbon Scarf, and it’s a nice little pattern that uses sock yarn (I chose Araucania Ranco, and I’m probably halfway finished. It’s pretty easy once you memorize the pattern….I just won’t tell you that it took me hours of knitting and un-knitting to do that. 🙂
Here’s a close-up (click to embiggen):
Now, those of you with a good memory will be wondering: what about the purple sweater? And if your memory is really good, you’ll be wondering if I finished it in time to take it on my trip…I didn’t.
I did complete the hood, including the grafting of the cables on the border:
I was pretty proud of myself for that…CBtE offered to model for me, so here’s another pic showing the hood:
I also figured out how to do the attached I-cord on the front edge (just need to graft it to the rolled edge of the hood, which is why those double-pointed needles are sticking out in the next photo). Another first!
Let’s see, what else?
A new yarn shop opened up a couple towns over, and I just went over to check it out with my mom on Friday…
…and they have a fantastic selection, gorgeous yarns, great ideas and tempting samples of stuff that I’ve been thinking about knitting, and…
…you guessed it.
I purchased.
Some handpainted linen yarn for a little jacket-y wrap-y thing. Straight stockinette stitch (BORING!), 5 rectangles, sewn together, but the finished product was so cute with a nice shawl pin.
I told myself I wouldn’t touch it until I finished the finishing touches on my purple sweater. You know, the purple sweater I won’t be able to wear until fall anyway…
And, breaking my own rule about never having more than 2 projects going at once, I promptly got up Saturday morning and swatched for the new project while everyone was still asleep. Oy.
Enough about my knitting…what’s needling you?