Wednesday, August 03, 2005

“FO” could also stand for “Found object”

...couldn’t it?

I seem to be having a productive period.  Horrors!  Whatever shall I do?  Heheh… It’s just that I’m not used to having ideas, actually being able to implement them and truly getting something accomplished.  It’s kinda fun - but I don’t want to make a habit of it :)

First up, the front piece of the prosthetic is complete.  The pattern is a bit vague on the finishing details so I haven’t quite decided what to do yet.  I’m considering a three needle bind off (once the back piece is complete, of course) which would certainly be sturdy and neat.  But there is also the real possibility of a crocheted, slip stitch seam.  This would also be sturdy and neat but would have the added advantage of being easy to remove and redo when/if stuffing needed to be added or replaced.  I should be starting the back tonight or tomorrow.

Then, there’s the chunky wool scarf.

This is about 5” wide and about 70” long, worked in chunky yarn on US size 10 1/2 needles.  I cast on 17 stitches and worked stockinette with a seed stitch border - one of my favorite simple designs.  The middle section there is a strand of Tahki New Tweed and a strand of Lionbrand’s Fisherman’s wool held together.  I have another two hanks of the chunky wool and I will definitely use them but boy, this isn’t a yarn weight I’d want to be working with all the time!  Still, the scarf is nice and thick and should be very warm.  Into the Dulaan bag it goes :)

Next: I figured out what the error was on the mohair scarf and tinked 6 rows to get back and fix it.  And, in all honesty, it wasn’t that bad.  It took quite a while, going slowly and carefully, but there weren’t any serious problems.  What had happened was a dropped stitch.  Arggghhh… Because of the fuzziness of the yarn, it just sat there, blending in with the scarf and being very hard to find while I knitted merrily on wondering what the hell had happened to my stitch count and why the pattern was going all wonky… When I finally did find the little bugger, I put a stitch marker through it so it wouldn’t run down any more and then started tinking back (you don’t want to frog, as in rip, mohair because it will just tie itself in knots and you’ll have a real mess then).  Once I got that under control and had sussed out where I was in the pattern repeat I was good to go.

Finally, and this is a doozy folks, finally I found this:





Anyone care to guess where it was?  It was languishing in the back seat of my car - which probably tells you more about my car than I’d comfortably like you to know :) I had apparently brought it out to show someone and then forgotten all about it.  I don’t know why it even occurred to me to look in the car - except that I had looked just about everywhere else.  The reason I was motivated to search for it was because I got a lovely letter requesting the pattern.  I had thought many times about writing the pattern up, but without the bag to refer to I figured it would be a lost cause.  Now I have the bag back and the pattern can be accessed from the Knitting Patterns section of the sidebar, over there on the left.

I’m not sure that isn’t all the excitement I can stand for one week!  Heh…

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1. Hi there!
   I really like your blog and patterns! thanks for sharing :)

   Have a nice day!
   Veronica

   Posted by Veronica  on  08/03  at  01:17 PM
   Location : Spain



2. Veronica - My pleasure!  If you have any trouble with a pattern, please let me know.  If you get stuck, I might be able to help and if it’s a mistake in the pattern, I’d want to fix it :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  08/03  at  02:56 PM
   Location : where cleanliness is next to "oddliness"



3. I vote for crocheted slip stitch closing - easy and quick to do, and you know some day you’ll want to go back and restuff or rearrange the filling.

   Oh, and look at that lovely Peony Purse! I think that pattern may well be perfect for the Twisted Sisters Voodoo I just bought. Think it would look good in purple varigated? ;-)

   Posted by Kathy  on  08/03  at  04:19 PM
   Location : Southern California



4. Kathy - The sl st crochet is definitely the way I’m leaning - thanks for the vote :)

   I think you might want to try out a swatch of your yarn in moss stitch - and throw in a cable while you’re at it.  The only reason I’d go cautiously is that the stitch patterns make a fairly “busy” fabric even in a solid color.  With a vareigated yarn, I’d be afrais you’d lose both the charm of the stitch patterns and the beauty of the wool.  But what do I know? LOL!  Swatch it and see if you like it :)
   

   Posted by Robbyn  on  08/03  at  05:28 PM
   Location : where cleanliness is next to "oddliness"



5. But see, I hate pooling intensely, so moss stitch + a cable might just break things up enough so I’m happy. Will swatch away :-)

   Posted by Kathy  on  08/03  at  06:40 PM
   Location : Southern California



6. Ahh - I hadn’t thought of that!  I haven’t had many issues with pooling, but it would annoy the shazbot out of me too :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  08/03  at  10:09 PM
   Location : where cleanliness is next to "oddliness"



7. I’m so glad you found the bag! That’s been my favorite of yours. :)

   Oh - about how things get lost in cars? I can totally relate. ‘Nuff said. ;)

   Posted by Bron  on  08/04  at  08:54 AM
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8. Bron - Heheh...comrade!  I’m glad I found it too.  I was so proud of that bag and very confused about where in the world it could possibly have gotten to!

   Posted by Robbyn  on  08/04  at  10:21 AM
   Location : where cleanliness is next to "oddliness"

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