I had a cold earlier this week, and I wanted to work on something fairly simple, so I pulled some orange yarn from Gryphon out of storage and started making a top that ought to be good for the transition to spring, should the transition to spring ever arrive. The project is certainly keeping me [...]
Archives for March 2008
Finished Objects: Easter Dress and Peep
Pattern: Dress is my own pattern; Peep is Bluebird by Berrocco. Size: Dress is 22" at the chest, sized to fit an 18-month-old. Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Worsted Hand Dyes (50 percent wool, 50 percent alpaca; 100 yds per 100 g skein), petal and chocolate Yardage: About 280 yds Source: Jimmy Beans Wool Needles: US [...]
Finished Object: Kinari Cardigan
Pattern: My own Size: 34" bust, 42" at bottom hem, 18" total length, 7.5" sleeves Yarn: Habu Wool Roving A-81 1/6 (100 percent undyed wool; 186 yds per oz) Yardage: About 2,000 yards, held double Sources: KPixie; Purl Soho Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm) and US 6 (4.00 mm) Knit Picks Harmony circular needles Gauge: [...]
Nearly There
I have (finally!) finished all the knitting on the Kinari cardigan, and this morning I figured out how I want to do the button closures. I extend my deep appreciation to Ysolda, who has posted a very good tutorial with photos on how to make sewn button loops. I modified her instructions to make this [...]
Second Time Around
After feeling stalled out for a few weeks, I’m making visible progress again on the Kinari cardigan. I’ve finished up the body edging for the second time, and this morning I started the second sleeve. When I tried the partial cardigan on yesterday, it looked much more like my sketch than it had the first [...]
Light and Shadow
The Kinari cardigan continues to require a great deal of patience. As you can see here, I have finished a sleeve, and lo, it is glorious. But the part of the picture that’s in shadow isn’t going so well. I did finish knitting the body. It took a week to do the edging: because the [...]