| Miranda's lace |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|07:43 pm] |
So a while ago, my sister sent me a request:
( Here's what she wants )
So I went looking online for black laceweight.
KnitPicks did not have any. That is, they have four kinds of laceweight, two of which come in solids, and none of which are black. I checked a few of the other usual suspects (elann, kpixie, etc.) and eventually settled on Zephyr Wool-Silk, which I elected to order from theknitter.com.
The thing about theknitter.com is this: their prices are lovely, and they have a good selection (of lighter weights, at least), and they take Paypal. All three of these are good things. So I will probably continue to order from them.
The only thing I don't like about theknitter.com is that their shipping time is usually about two and a half weeks, most of which is just administrative stuff on their end. So when I order things from them, I shall have to remember to order it weeks before my previous project finishes.
The yarn finally arrived today. It's not quite black; it looks dark gray. I think it's mostly that it's half silk; consequently, it is shiny, and the shiny bits are dark gray, not black. I hope that this is okay with Miranda.
( Clickee ye here for design details and plans that my sister should perhaps not read, if she would like to be surprised... ) |
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| February and March goals |
[Mar. 3rd, 2006|03:50 pm] |
February goals:
- Finish Peacock Feathers - Done.
- Dragon lace swatch - ( Done )
- Make a hood for a friend who requested one - ( Done )
- Do the swatching, photography, and final rewriting for an article I'm writing for (I hope) Knitty - not done
- Obtain all measurements and project ideas for longer-term projects - done with 3/4.
- Update this a bit more often - not done. Sooo not done.
So...4/6. Not bad. Not great, either.
For March, I'm going to keep it to two goals:
- Finish Mandy's sweater. This will be Eris, pullover version, in Andean Silk in Leaf. I've just gotten a few rows past the end of the collar:
( It looks like this. )
- Swatching and photography for article. This time for sure!
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| Peacock Feathers |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|09:59 pm] |
( Final picture )
Pattern: Peacock Feathers
Yarn: KnitPicks Shimmer in Maple Leaf, a tad bit over 2 skeins
Modifications: I messed with the decreases a lot, did one of the garter borders in purl instead of knit, and twisted some stitches; for more details, see this entry
or this entry.
Notes: I think that the Maple Leaf has too much value differences to be particularly well suited for any complicated lace. The shawl looks fine over things that are either a lot lighter than the yellow or a lot darker than the red and brown, but the lace pattern vanishes over anything else. I own a white dress and a black dress, so I think I'll manage, but this is not ideal.
I am not a great photographer. I can't seem to get really accurate colors. |
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| Peacock Feathers |
[Jan. 22nd, 2006|10:48 am] |
Here are a couple of closeups of my Peacock Feathers. I started this just before Winter Break, so around Dec. 10.
I didn't work on it that much over winter break, though. First, I had to finish up Faramir. Second, I had to make a scarf for my aunt, who I pulled in my family's Secret-Santa-like thing. The scarf was Liesel (warning: PDF file), made of one ball of Dale Baby Ull on 8s. I didn't take any pictures at all. I did take pictures of the completed Faramir...which came out horribly, blurry and discolored, so I won't post them. Sorry.
( Pictures! )
I'm making it out of Knitpicks Shimmer in Maple leaf. I'm currently in the middle of Row 194, which means that I'm about 60% of the way done.
This thing is surprisingly hard to photograph. I took lots of pictures yesterday, and almost all of them were either (a) blurry or (b) discolored. So you get these pictures. I'm sorry they're all different sizes.
In this post, I talked about three minor changes I've made. I could not get a good picture of the garter-stitch edging. So you'll just have to trust me: in variegated yarn, the garter-stitch borders have a very definite good and bad side, and doing the right edge in purl-stitch garter makes all the good sides show up on the right side.
You should be able to see the other changes I talked about earlier in the top photo.
I've made two more changes since starting Chart 6. They're shown in the bottom pictures. First, I left out some YO holes: they didn't seem that important to me, and were placed in such a way that I knew the asymmetry was going to bother me.
Second, when working "YO, knit, YO", especially if the knit is directly above a previous YO, the knit stitch stretches out and looks bad. I've found that if I twist it, it looks better. (This is the change highlighted on the right.) |
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| Decreases on the wrong side |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|09:10 am] |
Note: Another copy of this post is in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) knitting here. Generally when I become aware of a new decrease, or of more information that belongs in this post, I will update that post first. I will try (but do not always succeed) to remember to update this post as well. This post exists mainly as a backup; the other one may have slightly different information.
I knitted Leaves in
Relief inside-out. Consequently, I had to spend a lot of time thinking about
how to create something that will look like a sl 1-k2tog-psso from the right
side, while working from the wrong side.
Today, I was reading
this post
on String or Nothing. (She's doing a series on how to chart things, which I highly recommend.)
In the middle of it, I came across the following phrase:
Again referring to the Sainted Barbara, we see that a s1-k2tog-psso done on the right side has as its wrong-side counterpart the delightfully awkward p3tog through the back of the loop.
This bothered me quite a bit, because it's not accurate.
This provoked me to finally get around to writing up how to
produce any of the single or double decreases from the wrong side. I thought
that some of you might be interested.
( Read more... ) |
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| It's been a while |
[Oct. 29th, 2005|09:46 am] |
So you all get to see pictures of WIPs.
( Christmas present for my dad )( Lace. Probably a Christmas present for someone. )
More pattern information is in my next-most-recent post.
This has been most of what I've been knitting for the past three weeks. (I've also made part of a pair of utterly boring socks, which aren't worth posting pictures of.)
A note to those of you who read this journal with Bloglines: I often go back and edit old entries. Usually, the edits aren't worth reading. If you haven't done so already, you probably want to edit your subscription and set "Updated Items" to "Ignore" rather than "Display as New".
Sometime soon I should get around to making my little brother's Christmas present; I expect it to go quickly. It will probably not of interest to most of you other knitters out there, although I expect people like Miranda and Mary will be amused. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 26th, 2003|09:06 am] |
I ordered the kit for this.
I wanted a craft project to do when I'm having trouble with Alya. I wanted something that would avoid some of the hard parts about that snake: not having to invent and write down a whole new pattern, to make it out of something light-colored, with no auxiliary materials, that would be made of yarn instead of thread. (Admittedly, it's little skinny yarn, but I really like the look of thin yarns and stuff.) Also might be good to have a knit project instead of a crochet project; they use different muscles. |
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