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| I need a hobby *snicker* |
| 11.27.04 (12:54 pm) [edit] |
I wish I had an extra set of hands.. would be great for scratching my back, and taking pics of my hands :lol:
Sick of the bright-ass green huh? heehee. Not me. I love it!(then again, I made it...)
I've learned something else with these mittens. I could have simply kept going with the wristwarmer part and then incorporated the decreases for the rest of the mitten, leaving out the button holes and I would have had a complete one-piece pair of mittens! Duh!!
I will keep that in mind for the future(do I really need more than one pair of mittens, though?) This pattern would be cute for little hands.. My daughter has been begging for a pair of her own. I dont know though, she doesn't take care of the gloves she has.
I'm just pumped over my buttons! I can't believe I actually thought up to make buttons instead of buying them. There I was lamenting my problem of not having the cash(and free hands) to go button shopping for the gloves and I have enough clay in here to open my own button shop! Then again, after my discovery(read above) I really don't NEED buttons, do I? :wink:
So, continuing on with CPRRL. Haven't touched it since I started the mittens. And I'd like to get Charlotte started before the yarn burns a hole in my brain. I still have all that sock yarn I ordered from Carodan back in September I need to mess with. I found a cute glove pattern but it's with 2 circs and hell, I already have mittens.
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| 1 Down .5 to go! |
| 11.26.04 (2:27 pm) [edit] |
See? :D All I need to do now is make the other finger cover and put the buttons on. I learned something. It MIGHT be a good idea to use the needle I usually use to sew yarn to make the holes in my clay buttons. I had a hell of a time getting the needle in there.
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| The other mitten drops... |
| 11.25.04 (6:58 am) [edit] |
I got the second mitten done.
But somehow I must have gotten carried away with it because it is about an inch longer than it's supposed to have been. I could.. pick up stitches on the shorter one and keep going or.. I could rip back to where the longer one should have been finished. Hmmm I'll have time to decide while this cools off and dries:
It's the Chaco I got a while back. Dyed in Lemon-lime Koolaid.
These mittens have a covering that goes over the fingers and you use buttons to keep them on. I made them out of clay and you can see them here:
ETA: I decided to rip back the longer mitten to where I should have stopped. The shorter mitten felt more comfortableon my hand, which helped me to decide. More pics once the project is completed.
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| Smitten with Mitten! |
| 11.23.04 (4:42 pm) [edit] |
I got this finished not 4 hours after I started. That's counting breaks. I love to knit, but I love avoiding carpal tunnel too. Which sadly I think I might be getting anyway... This mitten is not complete. It needs the finger cover and I need to tighten up that space where the thumb meets the hand. I always have a gap there no matter what I do. Turns out two colors of yarn are needed for this pattern so, I'm going to dye some of the chaco in one of the colors in this yarn and use that!
CPRRL is coming along just nicely. No complaints so far.. still haven't reached the Fair Isle part though, it's 2x2 ribbing and it's BORING. yuck. I really want the FO though, so I have to keep at it.
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| Renewal |
| 11.21.04 (4:40 am) [edit] |
I finally got something going with CPRRL
It was a long haul,with more restarts than I'd like to admit. But so far, so good. If you look carefully you can see that slit on the side(I placed it in the front for this photo) that I will have to sew up to make 'invisible'. My initial revision plan was to leave the slits for a style more like a tunic, but I didn't leave them long enough. Maybe next time. I think a tunic would look better with a garter stitch border/seed stitch edging, anyway..
I also got a better mitten pattern. ThangQ BM, you know who you are! It's probably not far off from the Potluck mitten pattern in terms of overall structure, but, at least THIS one actually INCLUDES instructions for the rest of the mitten!! (yeah, so I'm lazy and don't want to think out the proper decreases to finish off the other pattern like a regular mitten :P).
Bless my son! The other day I saw him at the kitchen table with a sock(a used one, at that), and two pencils.. He had the pencils stuck into the toe of the sock, and I asked him what he's doing. "I'm making a sock!" I get a funny feeling he's going to take to knitting better than my girls!! :lol:
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| Renewed Vigor |
| 11.19.04 (5:24 am) [edit] |
I've gotten some help and thought a few things through, and thanx to this very special knitter I have come up with a way to do Cheesylove in the round, with less start up trouble! ThangQ Sarah! She gave me a hint that would allow me not only to join in the round more easily, but also to change up the style and make it even more my own.. :D
I need blocking pins. I'm going to try steam blocking the pieces of Big Sack, but in case that doesn't work very well, the blocking pins will come in handy if I spray-block them. That's alot of wet wool, though, so I'm kinda reluctant to do it that way.
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| Lactose Intolerant... sorta |
| 11.17.04 (6:50 am) [edit] |
That's it. I can't take it anymore.. Sherry said I should make my own patterns. I'm about to do JUST THAT. How? Well Once again I messed up the join in Cheesylove(aka Cheese Product Really Really Like, or CPRRL), and so I've decided this pattern is going through a major makeover. Yeah.
This sweater will now be done FLAT. As much as I'd prefer to do it in the round to avoid having to sew pieces that might not match(Big Sack ring a bell?) together, I'm also not keen on casting on THAT many stitches and trying to keep the row from twisting before I can join in the round. Now, to be fair my striped Incredible Top-down Raglan was in the round, but as such, it was top down. I only had to join a small number of stitches, and, having done the beginning of the neck flat I had already established enough material to be readily able to tell which way things were going when I joined the work in the round.
I've also decided that CPRRL will have either one big heart on the front or perhaps 3 medium hearts centered on the front only. I don't really need a bunch of hearts all around. Knitting flat also takes away the chance to do Fair Isle(which is better done in the round), but I get to use Intarsia(which is better done flat). This also cuts down the problem of it being visible if the front doesn't completely match the back, causing the hearts on the back/underarm to not match the front ones.
I'm still interested in doing the ruffle though, don't get me wrong. As long as I keep the stitch count the same I can improvise from there, right? This is starting to be fun again. I really wish I could have the actual sweater instead of having to basically rewrite the pattern, but I just can't stomach going through cast-on after cast-on only to have the sh*t twist on me.
In other knitting news, still haven't found a suitable mitten pattern. And No, I haven't put Big Sack together yet. I must get to blocking the pieces so I can then sew them with less difficulty.
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| !#$%*&(#$%#$% |
| 11.16.04 (10:08 am) [edit] |
@#$(&*$%#@#% Cheesylove #@%$%$&&*#%@# twisted in the round.. and #@%$$#%#$%$ing $#%$%#$$#$#!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:
So I've decided to make some revisions to the pattern: I will cast on the basic 252 that you end up with when you've joined both pieces of the ruffle, but with a provisional cast on. once I'm done with the sweater then I will go back and do the ruffles from the bottom on. It's that @#%#$&$% simple. :evil:
ETA
excuse my language.. but F*ck it! Cheesylove is now christened.. Cheese-product Really Really Like. Why? Well I'll admit when I FIRST looked at the pattern picture(back in ummm... May or something) I didn't realize the sweater was done in ribbing. K2,P1 to be exact. I can't keep up with it so I'm just going to make it all stockinette. Now my aforementioned revision and my total inability to count( on top of the stress of making sure THIS time it wasn't twisted) have left me with a fookered number of stitches. You won't beLIEVE the magic I had to pull to get the numbers right. Let's just say... Thank GOD(or whomever you worship, or don't...) there's going to be ruffling on the bottom which should hide some of the booboos. Why me...?
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| *Faint* |
| 11.14.04 (3:44 am) [edit] |
THIS.... is only the FIRST half of the cast-on for Cheesylove:
That is composed of 405.. Oh wait, did I say 405.. I mean 504!!! stitches. That's right. I'd misread the pattern. Imagine me :shock: and :cry: as I reread it and realized I'd be in for even MORE torture. Well, at least I didn't just ASSUME it was 405 and cast-on without rereading the pattern. That would have been a major disaster.
We're off to a great start. Yeah. Really. Right after I pick up all the stitchmarkers I knocked on the floor trying to get my digicam so I could take a PIC of that cast on.
And if THAT ain't all, I might have to sacrifice sleeves because my row gauge is off and I can't fix it without using more yarn than I might have on hand. Ugh...
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| Not cool... |
| 11.13.04 (6:05 am) [edit] |
OMG this is nuts. One of the sleeves for Big Sack.. is longer than the other. Funny though, that when I hold them up to me, the difference isn't that obvious. Does that mean one of my arms is 4 inches longer than the other and I never noticed???!! I can beat this, I will beat this...
You know you're a yarn addict when...
You're stressed out over whether or not you're missing anything at your LYS's sale that's been on all week. I KNOW I don't need any more yarn. I have about 4 balls left of the yarn I was using for Big Sack--plenty to sew the pieces together with, AND make matching whatever. (don't tell me, I'll figure out what'll match it :lol:). I have all I'll need for Cheesylove(right?..and if I don't oh well cause a different dye lot would ruin everything anyway!). I still need to work down my stash from my heavy crocheting days. I haven't even BEGUN to put a dent in it :(.
I almost forgot about Charlotte!! She's still there in her bag where I have the unballed skeins of KPPPM. I refuse to wind it into balls until I'm ready to use it. That and the table I attach the swift to is being otherwise occupied.
Remember Coronet? I got to wear mine yesterday!! It certainly kept me warmer than I thought it would. Although for some odd reason, it didn't sit down on my head the way it did when I first made it. True I've got more hair than I did then(No, the twisty braids are gone but my hair is still longer than it was in July), but it shouldn't affect the hat THAT much, should it?
I like the cable going around it so maybe if I get adventurous enough I can do another Coronet, modified to have the cable directly on the front side of the hat instead of on a fold-up brim.
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| Betcha thought I forgot, huh? |
| 11.12.04 (8:13 am) [edit] |
Nope! Here's the little Clapotis!
Still gotta weave in the ends(don't you just HATE that?), and that's it. nothing majorly new on Big Sack, almost done with the sleeve but I read ahead and there's a bump in the road with assembling the pieces.. WHY?? :cry: It was going good and now this. Can't win for losing.
Yes, Cheesylove is a sweater from knitty.com for those who didn't know. And I'm dreading the cast-on because it's 405 stitches... flat knitting. I must be MAD! :twisted:
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| It's that time... |
| 11.11.04 (6:14 am) [edit] |
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to make a new blog! No, my knitting blog will stay put, But I've decided to keep this strictly knitting and move my clay madness elsewhere. And, I get to play with a new set of blogging stuff! :lol: So, off to ClayDeeBean we go! See ya there! :D
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| Sorry... |
| 11.10.04 (11:58 am) [edit] |
For no knitting updates. I haven't been knitting. I've been claying and having a ball. I've made these
and this cane...
though I could have done it better. I know now, a pot of hot-boiled water is TOO hot to soften Fimo Classic enough to help condition it.
I need to hurry up and finish Big Sack so I can start Cheesylove. I think I'd better work this yarn out of the way before someone trips over it and kills himself. I guess I hit a knitting slump and the clay filled the void. I like working with clay and I like knitting, so I guess I'll have to find a better way to do both without spending too much time on one.
Clapotis is finished, by the way. I just haven't gotten around to sewing in the ends(I seem to have a problem with that I guess) and taking a pic of it. The Potluck mittens are giving me trouble. So That's gonna take a while yet. I might just have to go ahead and use a different pattern for them. I'm having issues with the pattern that I can't seem to resolve.
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| Potluck! |
| 11.07.04 (5:12 am) [edit] |
This is the ribbing on my rendition of the Potluck Mitten. Since it gets REALLY cold here I am going to continue on and make complete mittens. Alas, I probably will not get a hat out of what's left of the yarn I'm using for this but, a scarf and glove set will do for now. I can always dye that Chaco I got at Smiley's last month in a similar colorway and make the hat from that.
The clay play is still on. Another broken pen, and a pen holder so ugly I wouldn't disgrace myself to show it. I'm still gonna need a few more supplies to get my pens and holders looking professional-like..
Up next on my knit list: anything goes! I'm sick of lists.(ok the grocery list is still a good idea). I still have to finish weaving in the ends on the Striped Raglan(remember that?) and block and finish Big Sack(ack! still haven't done the second sleeve). But I need to get back into dying so maybe I can wing the hat to match Clapotis and the Mittens(sounds like a rock group or something :lol:), and if I'm nuts enough(and have enough Kool Aid left, some matching socks too! I forgot I have those balls of sock yarn I'd been wanting to experiment with. Now I have a reason to use it.
:D
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| Ummmmm ... |
| 11.05.04 (4:40 am) [edit] |
this is the most recent clay-covered pen I've made. It's standing in the pen holder I'd made previously for another pen which turned out yucky. I will be making another pen holder to match this pen. This is getting FUN! :D
But, alas, issues. I need to use a certain type of pen for this. What you DON'T see is that near the point of the pen, the clay broke off and I had to glue it back on before polishing it. I was told the type of pen could be a factor as well as, mixing the clays and using the wrong temp to bake them, as well as possibly airbubbles between the clay and pen. I'm going to be doing more experimentation to see just what the problem is.
I'm on the downgrade of lil' Clapotis. Almost there.
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| Updates |
| 11.03.04 (1:34 pm) [edit] |
I just put in yarn ball number 3 for lil' Clapotis. So far so good.
Big Sack is progressing ok, but, unfortunately I'm doing the sleeves ONE at a time because I kept getting confused and discovered I had NOT been duplicating my motions on both sleeves. So I had to take one off. It's almost done though, and I'll be onto sleeve number 2 by week's end.
I've been clay-playing some more; still nothing to call home to mama about but I've found
PolymerClayCentral's Message board so I'm getting help with my messes :) Also, PolymerClay Central is a good source of info without all the messageboard madness.
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