February 13, 2006
White out
Saturday night, in the middle of the big snowstorm, I tried to think spring.
This is the beginning of another Flower Basket shawl, this one as springlike as my last one was autumnal. The yarn is 100% silk from Blackberry Ridge, in a colorway I think is called 'Blossom'. It jumped up at me when I opened the rotating stash box, and said MEMEMEMEME. I'm not sure why, it's all pastel-y (buttercup yellow, pale green, pale violet), and I'm not a pastel person. Maybe it was the shine. Anyhow we're going to try to get a Flower Basket out of it. One thing I really like about it so far is that the color runs are very short - so rather than pooling or striping, it makes a nice overall shimmer.
Otherwise, I continued plugging away on my Koigu socks and on the yoke of Eris. This is becoming harder to photograph as it becomes 3-dimensional.
Opal the poodle tried to help but he or she doesn't really have shoulders.
I picked up for the yoke and knit the short-row section Sunday and Monday. Tuesday I decided I had made too many mistakes, ripped it out, and reknitted it Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I began the raglan increases that lead down to the armholes, and that's where I am at the moment. Once the body gets longer it should be easier to photograph. It's hard to tell, as I go along, what the finished sweater will be like, given I'm knitting with handspun and it's a little variable.
This is going to be one of those sweaters that will have a list of mistakes published along with its FO picture. When I got done the short row section of the yoke, I was 2 stitches short on one of the sleeve sections. I just fudged those stitches back in. Then, when I started the round knitting and continued the raglan increases, I didn't do the twists on the odd-numbered rows that did not have the raglan increases. I decided it just wasn't worth ripping back and doing those - the twists on every row made the raglan increases look a bit lumpy - yep that's my story and I'm sticking to it. We'll see how many more mistakes I end up absorbing before this is finished.
Posted by Prudence at February 13, 2006 08:03 AMWell, Eris looks like it is a challenge and a puzzle and will be extra gorgeous when it is done. Did you make it into work today? I think that Mother Nature is toying with us because she is just tired and grouchy. I know that we here on the left coast will pay the price for those people walking around in shorts this weekend...we will get some winter again as well.
Posted by: Lisa S on February 13, 2006 12:38 PMI love how the FBS is turning out! I tried it with some variegated once and yuck-o. The pattern shows up very nicely in yours, though.
Eris already looks like a great cuddling up sweater!