Thursday, January 22, 2004

Odds and Ends

I cast on for the other front-side of the kimono sweater last night.  Managed to get most of the seed stitch done.  I have to check it against the already completed front piece, but was too lazy to pull it out last night :) If there’s any more to do, it’ll only be a couple of rows at most.  As I’ve said before, I love the way seed stitch looks, but am not thrilled with the working of it.

My luggage finally arrived (delivered by the airport) at 11:45 PM, Sunday night.  Luckily we were still up but that’s a hell of a time to be delivering bags!  When I opened the suitcase the next day to unpack, I could see that it had been gone through.  Fair enough - it hadn’t gotten through customs in Costa Rica which is why it never got on the plane in the first place.  I had finished Myria’s replacement eyelash scarf during my trip and when I packed, I had placed it on top of everything else.  When I opened the bag to unpack, it wasn’t there.

Instant panic…

Fortunately, Myria found it, tucked in between a few other things where it couldn’t be immediately seen.  She wore it yesterday with her smashing fuschia sweater (which I did not knit).

Gorgeous combination!  She got comments on it too, from an elderly woman who wanted one just like it :)

These are the yarns that I mentioned on Monday.

I have pretty much decided that I don’t want to do another diagonal short-row scarf, though that would showcase the yarns beautifully.  But I really do want to put these babies together.  Any ideas?  I’ve got lots of the Phildar chenille (the one at the top), two balls of the Binario railroad (bottom right) and two balls of the fun fur - though I could get more of that.  I would be really interested to know how you all might see this stuff working up - to see it through your eyes, sort of :)

Ryan (of Mossy Cottage fame) offered this URL in a comment the other day.  Go and take a look.  The cable in the featured sweater were created with the help of dice.  Tossing the die determined when the cables were twisted.  I would have thought that the amount of randomness in this exercise would make a chaotic and unattractive garment - and I would have been wrong.  It’s a very intriguing idea and definitely worth playing with!

The Dos Amigos haven’t left me alone since I got home.

Fluffy (the one on the left), especially seems to feel that I owe him every waking moment and both hands for the forseeable future.  And that’s okay for now because I missed him too and am still susceptible to his guilt-making tactics.  Next week I’ll feel differently but for now, I happy to cuddle on demand :)

I have been working on the poncho too but I’ll wait until I’ve started the increases and have something different to show you to post another picture.  It’s coming along well though and is simple, simple to work as it’s just knitting around and around and around.  Makes really good TV knitting :)

I hope you’re all having a great day.  The weekend’s approaching - have faith!

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1. I’m enjoying watching the kimono sweater come into being! Doesn’t it have a colored band that runs up and down the front and around the neck? What colors are you going to use?

   Posted by Ryan  on  01/22  at  12:11 PM
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2. Hey Ryan :)

   The original sweater does have a multi-colored band and I like the way it looks but haven’t decided how I’m going to handle it yet.  The colors would certainly jazz up the sweater, but I keep wondering if making the band in the same color as the sweater wouldn’t make the garment more versatile?

   Posted by Robbyn  on  01/22  at  12:51 PM
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3. Hell, girl, you could go out and buy the perfect versatile sweater in a heartbeat. This is about creativity, color, fun, going’ crazy! I say “versatile, shmersatile!”

   Yep, still glad to have you back and postin’!

   Posted by Ryan  on  01/22  at  03:00 PM
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4. For your three yarns, are you wanting to make a scarf from them?  If so, why not try knitting one the long way—cast on 150 stitches or whatever gauge would give you the length you want and then stripe it with those three yarns.  Cut the yarns at the end of each row and it will self-fringe.  You could make narrower or fatter stripes as it pleased you.  Maybe use that dice throwing thing to determine how many row to knit at a time.

   Posted by  on  01/24  at  11:18 PM
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5. Hi Charlotte - Thanks for your suggestion; that’s definitely something to think about :) I get a little shy about casting on a LOT of stitches, but maybe it’s time I got over myself?

   Posted by Robbyn  on  01/25  at  06:31 PM
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6. Charlotte,

   If you still have the three skeins of blue yarn, try knitting one row of each at a time--the right yarn will be at the right end every third row. Laura Bryant and Barry(?) Klein’s latest book features yarns knit this way and they’re beautiful. I tried it wth Berocco’s Glace, Eros (or Binario) and Flash or another Trendsetter eyelash yarn. It’s absolutely beautiful.

   Also, your blue yarns might look great knit on the bias, also one each row--that’s my next project.

   Peace and grace,

   Renee

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