Knit, knit, knit
I'm just circling round and round and round between three projects, now. I guess it keeps me from getting bored. *g*
First up, the Eris. I've finished the round and round and round and round straight knitting bit (yay!), and I'm about to start the short row shaping. At least the dull part is over, right?
The picture's a little dark, since I took it without the flash, but the sweater's comin' along. I'm still afraid it's gonna be too small, though. The white line of crochet cotton's my lifeline, so I can rip it back to where the difference between the two sizes begins without too much trouble, if I do decide to rip it back. Of course, my older sister's a little smaller than me, so I may just give it to her for Christmas, instead.
I'm also hoping that the pookiness around the collar can be solved with blocking.
I've also put in a fair bit of work on my Irish Diamond Shawl, too. I think because it's cooling down, and it's about the time I wanted to start wearing it, I'm motivated to work on it again.
I've got another set of small diamond to do before the pattern changes to a different motif. I've already got over 500 stitches on the needles, and I have another 250 stitches or so to add, 8 stitches every second row. This makes it all of 40% done. Finishing may take me a while, but it would be nice if I could actually use it out at Mike's this fall.
Finally, I've been doing more work on the Desert Sun shawl, when I don't feel like doing either of the other two. That means it got about 4 rows done this week. I did enough to finish of the ball of wool I was using, and wind up (and attach) the next skein, and then I put it down again.
This one's going really, really slow. I think it's because the yarn is so fuzzy and undefined - it makes it hard to see the pattern, hard to see how it will look when done. I hope it's okay after blocking, but there may be all kinds of mistakes in there that I didn't see as I was going along because I couldn't see any pattern. I'm no longer convinced this one's gonna look all that good, so it's hard to get motivated to work on it...
First up, the Eris. I've finished the round and round and round and round straight knitting bit (yay!), and I'm about to start the short row shaping. At least the dull part is over, right?
The picture's a little dark, since I took it without the flash, but the sweater's comin' along. I'm still afraid it's gonna be too small, though. The white line of crochet cotton's my lifeline, so I can rip it back to where the difference between the two sizes begins without too much trouble, if I do decide to rip it back. Of course, my older sister's a little smaller than me, so I may just give it to her for Christmas, instead.
I'm also hoping that the pookiness around the collar can be solved with blocking.
I've also put in a fair bit of work on my Irish Diamond Shawl, too. I think because it's cooling down, and it's about the time I wanted to start wearing it, I'm motivated to work on it again.
I've got another set of small diamond to do before the pattern changes to a different motif. I've already got over 500 stitches on the needles, and I have another 250 stitches or so to add, 8 stitches every second row. This makes it all of 40% done. Finishing may take me a while, but it would be nice if I could actually use it out at Mike's this fall.
Finally, I've been doing more work on the Desert Sun shawl, when I don't feel like doing either of the other two. That means it got about 4 rows done this week. I did enough to finish of the ball of wool I was using, and wind up (and attach) the next skein, and then I put it down again.
This one's going really, really slow. I think it's because the yarn is so fuzzy and undefined - it makes it hard to see the pattern, hard to see how it will look when done. I hope it's okay after blocking, but there may be all kinds of mistakes in there that I didn't see as I was going along because I couldn't see any pattern. I'm no longer convinced this one's gonna look all that good, so it's hard to get motivated to work on it...
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