I was hoping to have a blocking Adamas to show you today. I’m going to be away from home for the next few days and it would have been perfect. Finish it, block it using my bed. Leave it there for a few days. Take it off when I got home.
Looks like it won’t happen. There’s still a small chance, but it’s a very small chance.
Casted on for this while tutoring this morning. I was only there for an hour which was amazing! The girls got their work done in record time. I’m so proud of them.
The older of the two who play my little points game got her mini Jaywalkers and was excited. I told her she couldn’t see them till her work was done. It’s amazing how motivated she was. After getting them she stuck them on her feet and slid through the house. Is it just me or are all hand-knit socks really slippery? She loved them, her mom loved them, the neighbor who just happened to be there loved them. Everybody is happy. Finished the headband this afternoon. I think it took a total of two hours from start to finish. I’m happy with how it turned out. I love how the light blue in the varigated just happened to match perfectly. It was knit back and forth and the side that you see is actually where it was seamed. I love what varigated yarn does by itself. I’ve decided I should probably include in my blog the source of the pattern, yarn used and all that other junk because it always seems to be my luck that I can’t remember which book/magazine/website that I got the pattern from.
Pattern: Child’s leg warmers from Winter 2005 issue of KnitSimple.
Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver color 0984 Shaded Dusk.
Modifications: Childs head was 20 inches so I did a gauge swatch, took away 10% so it would be snug, then added stitches to get a multiple that fit the pattern. Casted on 58 stitches with two strands held together, followed pattern until my final piece measured 3 inches. Nothing to it.
She’ll be thrilled when she gets it tomorrow.
Jeanne totally made my day with the comment on Adamas. She said she started her second ball of yarn in the 12th repeat, and I started mine about halfway through said repeat. I’m thrilled. Her’s was a good size, and she used the same yarn. So technically mine should be at least half as great as hers. That is assuming I don’t screw it up blocking it.
Nothing new and exciting in knitting to show. I’ve been working away on Adamas, and a square for charity. I really should start the gift headband tonight. Wait no! Need to measure kid’s head first. I need to find the magazine that pattern’s in.
ETA: I lied… I was in the very beginning of the 13th repeat when I started my second ball of yarn. Maybe I’ll just add an extra 10 rows and cross my fingers.
Finished the Jaywalker surgery… I now have fuzzy cuffs on my mini-Jaywalkers. Went much better than planned.
After finishing that I finished up the knitting and even wove all the ends in on my orange baby sweater. All that’s left to do there is finding some cute little buttons and
sewing them on. Practically done, but I guess it can’t really count as an FO.
Next up on my To Do List? One more Pomatomus sock (so I’ll have a whole pair). Also to be 
cast on in the near future is the headband for the other girl I tutor. She changed her mind. She no longer wants a Pomatomus headband, which I found very disappointing, she now wants the same pattern used for her scarf and her legwarmers, what she doesn’t realize is that they were two completely different stitch patterns. The scarf was lace and the legwarmers were a purl/knit combination. She chose legwarmer pattern so that should get finished really quick.
I’ll also be attempting to finish ADAMAS! Haven’t worked on that one in awhile. I watched P&P yesterday and started listening to the Craftlit they did with P&P. It really made me miss my shawl. My big worry is the final size. I never did a gauge swatch and I’ve barely used more than a skein of yarn when the pattern called for two. Maybe I’ll take the time to put the whole nasty thing on scrap yarn and see how big it is. That seems like so much effor though and I really don’t want to do that. Maybe I’ll just guess, bind off, and hope it stretches when blocking.
They’ve been driving me mad. I finished both socks and fixed the little hole created by the pattern. Life was good. Then I got out my fun fur that I was going to just slip around the top of the sock to make the cuff fuzzy. Apparently just weaving in fun fur may work well, but it completely kills the stretch that the cuff originally had.
This I found out yesterday. I want to get the socks out of my life forever. I had to restart that first one so many times it makes me want to scream. I kept sewing in the fun fur, then ripping it out, then sewing again, and ripping out again. That’s all I did as far as knitting/crochet/spinning goes yesterday. I played with fun fur. It really drove me mad, and I drove my boyfriend mad worrying about it. The thing with him is that he likes to give advice. Impractical advice that would never work in the real world.
Him: “Staple the fur to the socks.”
Me: “That won’t work.”
Him: “Sure it will, and staples are cheap!”
He loves to suggest things, even when he knows it won’t work. The best advice he gave was to unravel it backwords and knit it again.
Waking up this morning my mind went back to the socks and the fact that I should blog about it because, maybe, just maybe some amazing idea would come to me when I’m blogging. Then it hit me. One of the many blogs I read showed where they had to fix the middle of a sock before, and how amazingly easy it was. Then it occured to me that I could just use the same technique to fix the cuff. So I’m off to fix, I’ll take pictures once completed.
ETA: One down, one to go. I’m not sure that I have the energy to finish the second one today, but it will be done this weekend. I want to get some new projects on the needles.
So I took out my new needles last night and cast on the first sleeve of my orange baby sweater. I immediately hated the needles. They drove me mad. I like plastic better than wood needles, but I still feel like the yarn just sticks to them. But I had no choice. I couldn’t just post about how the needles were driving me insane… that would be mean, especially after my SP was so kind to send them my way.
This was yesterday. After almost finishing the first sleeve tonight and getting over halfway done with the second sleeve, I’m now in love with these needles. They are amazing.
Yes, the needles I hated yesterday, are my absolute favorites today. I love my SP. I really, really love my SP. Just when I thought I really wasn’t going to like them, I figured out the correct tension for using them and things are flying along. I’m very, very happy.
As for the title “Late again!”. Baby was born at 11:06 this morning, and as of that time I had just started the first sleeve. She was a little early, so that’s my excuse. Apparently mom and baby are good. I now have two second cousins. Both boys. Someone really needs to have girls.
My first finished pair of socks! Wooo! Actually they were finished last night around 7:30 and the ends were woven in as well. I was going to post about it last night but the second I finished weaving in the last end, my sister yelled that the internet was down again. AH! Just my luck.
They fit great. I would have taken a picture of them on my feet, but my feet are sandy because I just came back from kayaking.
I bought a kayak last weekend and I’m in absolute love with it. I was going to take a picture, but I never got the chance. It now lives at my uncles house so we don’t have to carry it to the lake every time we want to go out. Hopefully I’ll get my kayak out a lot this summer. It was so nice this morning, half the lake was calm, so I tried to stick to that half…lol. Bonus is I get exercise at the same time.
Finished my scarf for charity. Feels great to get something off the hook. Unfortunatley I still have yarn left. I was hoping to use it all up. Looks like the yarn’s going back into the stash until I have some use for it.
Look what I finished. My guilt of having not worked on charity stuff is over. I finished another square. Now I’m down to one charity project on the needles… or well crochet hook in this case.
I still have two me projects on the needles and two gift projects on the needles. Two of those could be considered travel projects so really as soon as one more project is off the needles I’ll only have four. Yay! Hopefully things will be flying off the needles in the future, as soon as September comes around school is going to cut into my knitting.
Guess what came in the mail from my lovely SP. It shouldn’t be too hard to guess because she told me what it was on the blog. lol. Needles! More specifically DPNS in extremely cool colors. Bright colors! Like pink! I really love pink.
I’m looking forward to using them too, but first I’m going to try to finish these Jaywalkers. I think I’m going to try to cut down on my current WIPs. My goal is to have only four WIPs by the end of August. One Gift knit, one for me knit, one travel knit, and a charity knit. Speaking of charity I wanted to finish 50 squares… gotta get working on that.
