Saturday, January 12, 2008

fresh start

wow it's been so long since my last post. i seem to say that a lot, but really, with work and everything else, i have a really hard time updating regularly. that's not to say that i'm not knitting or reading blogs every day. it just takes a lot of effort for me to post and i always feel like a need pictures (good ones, hopefully) and something to say. and what with ravelry, it's become so easy to just plug in info to keep track or your projects. and i spend hours just looking at new patterns or what other people have been knitting. it's so addictive. so i am going to try again to see if i can post more often. i am not making any promises but we'll see what happens.

the holiday season was spent doing a lot of gift knitting. i finally finished the stained glass scarf from scarf style that i've been making for my brother for over a year. it came out very nice in the end, but i really don't know if i'd make it again. working each row twice on little needles was not my favorite experience ever but the finished product was really nice.

Stained Glass Scarf

pattern: stained glass scarf
from: handknit holidays by melanie falick
materials: almost 2 skeins araucania nature wool in brown & 1 1/4 skeins claudia handpaint fingering in eat your veggies
needles: us 4/3.5mm addi circrs

started: july 2005
completed: december 2007

mods: the only real mod i made was to co only 40 stitches to make a narrower scarf. my brother doesn't like wide scarves. other than that i did as the pattern stated and just kept knitting until i was almost out of the brown wool. the scarf ended up over 6' long but my brother likes them long.

i have a few more finished projects to put up (hopefully) in the next week or so. i have also recently fallen in love with malabrigo merino worsted yarn. i'd seen it before and heard fabulous things, but i didn't actually try it until a couple of months ago. since then, it's the only thing i want to knit with and i've amassed quite a little stash of it. with a new year comes the promise of a clean slate. i am really hoping to finish or frog some old projects and start working into the stash. i really have so much yarn and i should use it. that way i can buy more. :) happy new year, everyone!

Saturday, January 12, 2008

fresh start

wow it's been so long since my last post. i seem to say that a lot, but really, with work and everything else, i have a really hard time updating regularly. that's not to say that i'm not knitting or reading blogs every day. it just takes a lot of effort for me to post and i always feel like a need pictures (good ones, hopefully) and something to say. and what with ravelry, it's become so easy to just plug in info to keep track or your projects. and i spend hours just looking at new patterns or what other people have been knitting. it's so addictive. so i am going to try again to see if i can post more often. i am not making any promises but we'll see what happens.

the holiday season was spent doing a lot of gift knitting. i finally finished the stained glass scarf from scarf style that i've been making for my brother for over a year. it came out very nice in the end, but i really don't know if i'd make it again. working each row twice on little needles was not my favorite experience ever but the finished product was really nice.

Stained Glass Scarf

pattern: stained glass scarf
from: handknit holidays by melanie falick
materials: almost 2 skeins araucania nature wool in brown & 1 1/4 skeins claudia handpaint fingering in eat your veggies
needles: us 4/3.5mm addi circrs

started: july 2005
completed: december 2007

mods: the only real mod i made was to co only 40 stitches to make a narrower scarf. my brother doesn't like wide scarves. other than that i did as the pattern stated and just kept knitting until i was almost out of the brown wool. the scarf ended up over 6' long but my brother likes them long.

i have a few more finished projects to put up (hopefully) in the next week or so. i have also recently fallen in love with malabrigo merino worsted yarn. i'd seen it before and heard fabulous things, but i didn't actually try it until a couple of months ago. since then, it's the only thing i want to knit with and i've amassed quite a little stash of it. with a new year comes the promise of a clean slate. i am really hoping to finish or frog some old projects and start working into the stash. i really have so much yarn and i should use it. that way i can buy more. :) happy new year, everyone!
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